Historical Manufacturing Workshops

Black and white images depicting workshops from the late 19th to mid-20th century, showcasing skilled labor in various industrial settings.

Vintage photograph. Employees seen in one of the drafting rooms of the Shawinigan Engineering Company

Italy. Rome. work hall of a chalcography. 1961

Anefo photo collection. Manufacture of paper cups. April 21, 1947

Italy. piemonte. settimo torinese. facis industry.

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Instrument maker Burchartz office home Manokwari. Burchartz Guinea settler. December 1953. Manokwari, Merauke, Guinea

Gustavsberg's porcelain factory. The attachment ear or hink on a coffee cup immediately before the raw food burning. An ordinary coffee cup undergoes, at least 29 individual and 50 collective work temp before it reaches the stock room.

The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory was designed by a group of engineers at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory in late 1940 and 1941. Under the guidance of Ernest Whitney, the men worked on drawings and calculations in a room above Langleys Structural Research Laboratory. The main Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory design group originally consisted of approximately 30 engineers and draftsmen, but there were smaller groups working separately on specific facilities. The new engine lab would have six principal buildings the Engine Research Building, hangar, Fuels and Lubricants Building, Administration Building, Propeller Test Stand, and Altitude Wind Tunnel. In December 1941 most of those working on the project transferred to Cleveland from Langley. Harrison Underwood and Charles Egan led 18 architectural, 26 machine equipment, 3 structural and 10 mechanical draftsmen. Initially these staff members were housed in temporar

Technical School- Training at Tottenham Polytechnic, Middlesex, England, UK, 1944 Harold Riley (aged 15) does a test to establish the setting time of cement in a workshop at Tottenham Polytechnic.

Old Men's Toy Shop

Industry during the First World War Female workers clean splinterless glass for use in gask masks at the Crowndale Works, Camden Town, London, during the First World War.

Farm worker practicing wrapping apples in the apple wrapping school at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm family migratory labor camp. Yakima, Washington 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Washington (State) , Yakima, Washington (State) , Yakima County

Interior of the Olland Libra Factory (Dorpsstraat) in De Bilt: employees engaged in the assembly of scales.

Sectioners at work canning grapefruit. About half of these girls are migrants. Winter Haven, Florida 1937. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Anefo photo collection. Assignment from Hulsen in Westland. November 10, 1970. South Holland

State Railways, SJ Laundry Institute

Anefo photo collection. REPORTAGE Optical industry The Oude Delft ('Olddelft'). March 22, 1946. Delft, South Holland

Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. 5x5 women bottle factory. undated

Functional portrait of the work of the radio radar mechanic. Is part of object series AVDKM 530293 to 530296.

Skiopticon image from the Department of Photography at the Royal Institute of Technology. Use by Professor Helmer Bäckström as teaching material. Bäckström was Sweden's first professor in photography at the Royal Institute of Technology 1948-1958. Optische Anstal C. P. Goerz, Berlin.

Steel Replaces Copper in Ammunition - Cartoucherie National de Valence, Rhone River. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Female Workers, Union Point Manufacturing Company, Greene County, Georgia, USA, November 1941

Sectioners at work canning grapefruit. About half of these girls are migrants. Winter Haven, Florida 1937. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

The guncotton and Nitroglycerin mixture, pressed into sheets form and dried, goes to the paste crumbling room, where it is carefully broken by hand in leaden baths. It then passes through a coarse screen, into bags, ready for the next process.Cordite, the standard propellent for British rifles and guns, results from a specially prepared mixture of guncotton and Nitroglycerin generally, it is in the form of thin, honey-colored sticks or cords. Cordite is being produced on a large scale at this Melbourne plant. November 08, 1950.

Anefo photo collection. Craftschool Culemborg. January 27, 1949. Culemborg

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa. Tel Aviv. Diamond works. Diamond cutting on lathes. 1939, Israel, Tel Aviv

Interior of the bakery of Maatschappij de Korenschoof (Kaatstraat 6) in Utrecht: Pakkerij.

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

Work on print presses on unknown printing.

Anefo photo collection. Manufacture Carpet Palace Soestdijk by carpet knuckle Kinheim in Beverwijk. March 31, 1954. Beverwijk

War Industry in Britain 1939-1945 Cordite production at a Royal Naval armaments factory at Holton Heath. The long strings of cordite are combed by women workers in order to eliminate short lengths.

Anefo photo collection. Metal workers hold factory occupied in belgium, food and drink in the factory hall. June 1, 1967. Belgium

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

PROPELLER SHOP. Native workmen identified by their red skull caps remove nicks from damaged propellers and smooth the blades. In the background are two French workmen who are employed in the same AIA shop.

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

Flat presser making dishes at a pottery in Burslem, Staffs Date: circa 1910s

The ironing room at the Agua Fria Migratory Labor Camp, Arizona. 1940. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Arizona , Agua Fria, Arizona , Maricopa County

Child labor, girls working at the mangle in the Bonanno Laundry, 12 Foster Wharf. All are 15 years old and attend secondary school. Boston, Massachusetts, 1917. Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine (1874-1940). Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th-century original. .

Recinto de trabajo de la fábrica Melis de calzado de Inca (ca. 1930), Museo del Calzado y de la Piel , Inca ,Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain

Photo collection First World War. Look in a German firework laboratory. The different work operations when loading and assembling the ignition caps. 1914-1918}. Germany

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

State Railways, SJ Godsmagasin Västra Central Station (female emergency service)

Vintage photograph. British Pottery Industry workers decorating china pottery.

Woman gives washed asparagus rods in tubs. Deployment for peeling

Anefo photo collection. New Danlon factory opened to Emmen by Minister De Block. October 15, 1968. Emmen

State Railway's washing facility in Hagalund.

Sectioners at work canning grapefruit. About half of these girls are migrants. Winter Haven, Florida 1937. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

The production of electronic devices by female workers at the Siemens company on 23.11.1974 in Kamp-Lintfort, DEU, Germany, Kamp, Europe

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

Industry during the First World War Female workers hammer together crates, each holding 50 pounds of army biscuits, to be despatched from a Lancashire factory during the First World War.

Anefo photo collection. Collection Tuindorp Oostzaan preparation in Amsterdam. January 21, 1960. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. Buildings, workers, workbenches, tools. undated

They Also Fight Who Only Stand and Wait- Part-time War work in Surrey, England, 1943 At the Chillingfold/Chiddingfold depot, the head supervisor Mrs Harner weighs bags of rivets after they have been sorted by part-time war worker in various 'workshops' in the local area.

A great effort being made to get a big supply of greatcoats finished quickly so that no men may be caught by winter's grip without them. Workers in an army clothing factory busy sewing buttons on coats for British servicemen during World War Two. Date: 1939

Vintage photograph. Fillet candling line and inspection, General Seafoods Division, Rockland, Maine

Training to aircraft telegradist at the liaison school in Amsterdam

Peat powder factory. From left: Erik Broberg and Edvin Gusdtavsson

Industry during the First World War Female workers doping splinterless glass to be used in gas masks at the Crowndale Works, Camden Town, London, during the First World War.

Anefo photo collection. Manufacturing Delft Blue, Report. March 12, 1964

Sundsvall Telecommarium, assembly department.

Pottery in the Making- the work of J and G Meakin Pottery, Hanley, Stoke-on-trent, Staffordshire, England, 1942 A wide view of the decorating shop at the J & G Meakin factory in Hanley, showing women at work painting intricate enamel designs on plates before they are glazed. The plates are due for export to South America.

Old factory. Glass glow. Oil painting in 1941 by Nordgren, Kati, Stockholm.

Anefo photo collection. Structure in the Betuwe (1945). Building artists or technical artists working on building plans in a room. 1945. Betuwe

Woodworking. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Flandreau School and Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Poll photo collection. Factory for plastics in Mishmar Ha'emek. Worker busy packing plastic coffee sales. January 1, 1964. Israel, Mishmar Ha'emek

Everyday Life at a Ministry of Supply Shell Filling Factory, England, UK, 1941 A female factory worker fits exploders into rows of shells at this filling factory. Behind her, other munitions workers can also be seen.

Vacuum cleaner factory, Arthurdale, West Virginia. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

A carpet is restored in the textile studio. View on the carpet that is restored by a lady and a gentleman. On the carpet are the scoops of yarn that are required for the restoration.

Workers at Pastificio Cassanello, October 16, 1947, Genoa, Italy, 20th century.

Domestic shoe manufacturing, naples, italy, 70's

Women's Factory War work at Slough Training Centre, England, UK, 1941 Four women workers at Slough Training Centre work on the construction of a seaplane float. One woman is drilling, whilst others appear to be rivetting.

Stitching Room. 1926 - 1956. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pierre Agency. 1954-1972. Decimal Correspondence

Savile Row- Tailoring at Henry Poole and Co., London, England, UK, 1944 A view of the workroom at Henry Poole and Co., showing tailors at work on various types of jacket, including a naval officer's jacket, second from right on the rear row. The men are all sitting on the workbenches, some cross-legged, the garments resting in their laps as they work.

Storage Office Mörby Workshop, from Left A. Fernström, E Dahl, K Trostedt

Vacuum cleaner factory, Arthurdale, West Virginia. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Woodworking. 1936 - 1954. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Flandreau School and Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Anefo photo collection. Model builder camp in Ermelo, barracks in which repairs can be carried out. August 1, 1960. Ermelo

From manufacturing in factory in Germany. (For more info see the original for text in German).

Theory and practice in 1965 at a vocational school in Bochum, Germany, Europe

Vintage photograph. Doll manufacturing - cutting eyes on doll head

Harness Shop. 1926 - 1956. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pierre Agency. 1954-1972. Decimal Correspondence

Woman wringing out washed clothes, Point Pleasant, West Virginia, USA, Arthur S. Siegel, U.S. Office of War Information, May 1943

Women's Factory War work at Slough Training Centre, England, UK, 1941 Peggy Rowland, Betty Pridie and Rose Pridie drill and rivet the wing of an aircraft as part of their training at Slough Training Centre. Their overalls are embroidered with the initials 'GTC', which stands for 'Government Training Centre'.

DEU, Germany: Historical slides from the 84-85 r years, Menden. Grohe. Manufacturer of sanitary ware. ca. 1984-5

The Employment of Women in Britain, 1914-1918 A female worker fastening dolls heads in a toy Factory in Britain.

Colour photograph of Navy Wives, Eva Herzberg and Elve Burnham, assembling bands for blood transfusions bottles at Baxter Laboratories. Photographed by Howard R. Holl American photographer. Dated 1942

Anefo photo collection. English flag production i.v.m. The enclosed English Royal visit. February 5, 1958

Women's Factory War work at Slough Training Centre, England, UK, 1941 Betty Pridie (left) holds a micrometer as she watches her sister Rose squaring and checking fittings with a Vernier height gauge at Slough Training Centre. Their overalls are embroidered with the initials 'GTC', which stands for 'Government Training Centre'.

Elsevier photo collection. Fisheries Monnickendam. Sprot filled. 1940-1945}. Monnickendam

01/01/1930. Artisanal cheese preparation in a cheese factory from the 1930s.

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