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Vintage Factories and Industries

Images of historical factories showcasing different manufacturing processes, from rubber to textiles, with an emphasis on architecture and industrial heritage.

Distribution Department, Arlington Pumping Station, from the south, Arlington, Mass., Nov. 18, 1907 , waterworks, pumping stations, construction completed
Distribution Department, Arlington Pumping Station, from the south, Arlington, Mass., Nov. 18, 1907 , waterworks, pumping stations, construction completed
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Distribution Department, Melrose Pumping Station, eastern shore south of Malden Pumping Station, Stoneham, Mass., Jan. 13, 1898 , waterworks, pumping stations
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Siemens factory, Markgrafen Strasse, Berlin, c1900. Siemens Brothers produced electrical telegraphy equipment from 1847 and through the nineteenth century expanded their electrical engineering works.
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Torshag's factories in Åby.
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Collotype - General view of mills, Asbestos, QC, about 1910
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Mexico. Hidalgo state. Silver Mines of San Miguel Regla. Lithography, 1880.
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Factory employees leave a factory, postcard addressed to Alphonsine Colin, Anonymous, 1907 photomechanical print Thaon-les-Vosges paper collotype factory-building Thaon-les-Vosges
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Monthly Progress Photo, Durax Pavement Looking Northwest at Head of Dry Dock Number 4, Uvalde Asphalt Company, Contractor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.
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The workshop in Åmål. BJ's expansion of the repair workshops in Åmål.
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Bengsfors Sulfitfabrik.
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Tertexfabriken in the industrial area Hörneborg, Örnsköldsvik.
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Munkedal paper mill.
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Local people gather around the pithead at Wingate Grange, Durham, England, following an explosion which resulted in the death of 25 miners. Date: 14 October 1906
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Skåne Cement's factory in Limhamn.
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Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. Inplating and bemaling, steam ground, rich steam pumping station, lionous steam pumping station. 1949
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Steam deletion WildbergNiederwartha. Steam deletion Wildberg
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Plate III, Outside a Sugar Factory - Crop Time in the Tropics
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Foundry and gasworks overlooking the wharf , Armories, Ordnance industry, Buildings, Foundries, Piers & wharves, Ships, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational
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Nygruvan i Zinkgruvan.
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Holmen's paper mill
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Industry in Łódź Voivodeship, 1905, Łódź Voivodeship, Tomaszow, Fabryki M. Piesza i J. Halperna
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The factory building Helsingborg's rubber factory1895.
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Fagersta use.
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The brickworks in Hulta.
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Ayer Mill , Factories, Textile industry, Ayer Mill Lawrence, Mass.
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Charles River near Waltham Watch Factory, Waltham, Mass. , Factories, Clock & watch industry, Waltham Watch Company. Waltham Room Collection
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Water Use: Electricity - California. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Distribution Department, Chestnut Hill Low Service and High Service Pumping Stations, Brighton, Mass., Jan. 25, 1901 , waterworks, pumping stations
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Collotype - Price Brothers' Pulp Mill, Jonquières, QC, about 1910
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FRANE SULFIT FABILITY, Kramfors.
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The fungus factory and houses at Schulberg (re.)
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Kinda channel. Tannefors Vattenfall, 1901. Picture from the magazine home image material.
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Collotype - Carney's Lumber Mill, Owen Sound, ON, about 1910
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Ware River, Ware Woolen Co., dam, looking upstream, Ware, Mass., 1:20 PM, Apr. 1, 1932 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, dams hydraulic structures, floods natural events, factories structures
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Steam Power Plant, Oak Ridge, Tenn. , Industrial facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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Vintage Photograph. The WM Ritter Lumber Company Mill at Mountain City Georgia.
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Gold Belt Tour Scenic and Historic Byway - Historic Smelter, Florence. Today, a lone smelter stack testifies to Florence's history as an important industrial center of the Arkansas Valley. In the early 1900s, Florence was a center for gold ore processing and oil production and refining. Colorado (38.401° N 105.135° W)
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Steam Power Plant, Oak Ridge, Tenn. , Industrial facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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Collotype - Principal Mill of Asbestos Mines, QC, about 1910
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Nydqvist & Holms Mechanical Werkstad in Trollhättan.
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Noon-hour at the Buick and Western-Mott Factories, Industrial Avenue, Flint, Michigan, USA. circa 1910
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An engraving depicting a factory of The Lamb Knitting Machine Company Limited, Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts. Dated 19th century
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Småland's woolly factory.
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Footer's Dye Works, Advertising
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Collotype - Withe Pine Lumber Co. Mill, Blind River, ON, about 1910
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Print shows large factory complex with 'Eaton, Cole & Burnham Company, Depot, 58 John St., New York, brass, steam, gas, and water goods, gray and malleable iron fittings, tools, etc.' on one building. N.Y. N.H. H&RR Central Railroad and ship at dock in foreground; and Long Island Sound in background.
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Hummel-Ross Fibre Corp., Hopewell, Va. , Industrial facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tenn. , Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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Bamberg Textile Mills, Bamberg, S. C. , Industrial facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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Quaker State Oil Refining Corporation, McKean Plant, Smethport, Pennsylvania , Industrial facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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Lukens Steel Co., Coatesville, Pa. , Industrial facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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The Factory at Pontoise. Date/Period: 1873. Painting. Height: 380 mm (14.96 in); Width: 550 mm (21.65 in). Author: CAMILLE PISSARRO.
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Arlington Mills , Textile industry, Arlington Mills
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West Philadelphia Manufacturing Company's Starch & Farina works in 1858. Street view of the factory buildings includes a railroad, a river, and distant buildings (BSLOC_2019_7_145)
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L. Candee & Co., Rubber Works, manufacturers of all kinds of rubber boots & shoes. New Haven, Conn. established 1842 Punderson & Crisand, New Haven, Conn. - digital file from original print | Library of Congress