Vintage Industrial Scenes

Black and white images of factories and workers from the 1950s and earlier, showcasing early industrial processes and machinery.

The Glaenzer Spicer - French Industry Now Axed on Defense Production Makers of Joints and Shafts. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Cherbourg Arms France -- Unloading a shipment of tanks which will be hastily dispatched to French army units training for war. The dockers work all through the day and night to speed up delivery. November 14, 1951. (Photo by Eugene Kammerman, Camera Press).

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. construction and improvement of roads, dikes and savings basins, asphalt mill. August 1956

Steel production at Hoesch AG Westfalenhuette in 1966 in Dortmund, Germany, Europe

Mrs. Mary Betchner Inspecting 105mm Howitzer Artillery on Assembly Line, Chain Belt Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, Howard R. Hollem for Office of War Information

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

Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. 10x15 Spray cabin sandblasting fa. Braat Rotterdam. 1950. Rotterdam, South Holland

Dishwasher.

Locomotive workshop with lifting locomotive boiler

Milk - Lyon Milk Bottling Plant. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

T108 Placement of SS 10. Altair (depicted - name)

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. NPC, pipelines, application insulation layers. 1965

Man monitors the blanching of asparagus rods in a boiler

Object on crane near large round object on truck , Armories, Ordnance industry, Hoisting machinery, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational

Vintage photograph. Man watching Melt-down Period Electric Furnace - Timken Steel and Tube Division

AMS-113 , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy

Grinding at Trafikaktiebolaget Grängesberg - Oxelösund Railways, TGOJ Workshop in Eskilstuna.

AO-141 Sappa Creek 19-NN-AO-141 Sappa Creek-134448 , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. Roads, hydraulic engineering, sand samples, cement. September 1967

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Two views of an idle petty shop. Taken in the Barnet Mills, June 1937, Lewis Hine, 1874 - 1940, was an American photographer, who used his camera as a tool for social reform. US,USA

Potash, Lorraine. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Wooled Sheepskin Tanning In England - Sheepskins are normally "pulled" or "Feel-mangered." That is to say the wool is pulled from the skin and the spun it and woven into cloth. The pelts, free from wool, are used as she lining leather or other light leather uses, such as batting gloves. There are also special uses for sheepskins dressed and dyed with the wool on. This a very old established West of England trade, well known in Glastonbury and other towns in Somerset, for over a hundred years. Se

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa. The Lodzia Textile Co. in Holon settlement (meaning sandy). Electrical machine ironing. 1939, Israel, Ḥolon

Vintage Photograph. Press Room in the Times Picayune New Orleans Louisiana here the foreman selects at random printed and folded newspaper from the conveyor which takes the newspapers up to the mail room on the floor above.

Workmen at the Houghton Lubricants Plant, June 4, 1947, Genoa, Italy, 20th century.

Tolman Laundry, Washington. D.C. ca. between 1909 and 1923.

Vintage photograph. Molten iron is transferred to refining furnace

Repair and maintenance work.

Anefo photo collection. Manufacture of canopdlers. March 19, 1947

Isadore Kessler, one of the Cutters at the Cooperative Garment Factory at Jersey Homesteads, Hightstown, New Jersey, USA, Russell Lee, U.S. Resettlement Administration, November 1936

Image of the lighting of the bin of the electric locomotive No. 1501 (series 1500) of the N.S. In the depot of the main workshop in Tilburg.

Backyard furnace in China during the disastrous 'Great Leap Forward.' The government encouraged peasants to make small quantities of steel in primitive backyard blast furnace. Over one million smelters were set up in the 'battle for steel'. The results were chaotic and uneconomic, and took farmers away from the fields. March 1962.

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. NPC, pipelines, applying paint layer, rotating paint sprayers. 1965

$Gustavsberg's porcelain factory. The goods are put in refractory shapes.$

Workers and employees used the last casting of the Suedwestfalen steelworks in Hagen for a demonstrative protest at the loss of their jobs at the steelworks on 31.03.1976, Germany, Europe

Engraving depicting Richard March Hoe's six-feeder rotary printing press. Richard March Hoe (1812-1886) an American inventor from New York City who designed a rotary printing press and related advancements. Dated 19th century

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Beams and beam paper, March 1937, Lewis Hine, 1874 - 1940, was an American photographer, who used his camera as a tool for social reform. US,USA

A close-up view of industrial pipes and valves, showcasing a series of large, round handles against a textured brick wall. The monochrome tones emphasize the ruggedness and age of the machinery.

Anefo photo collection. Nedstaal in Alblasserdam. 17 June 1984. Alblasserdam, South Holland

Crude oil motor.

Vintage Photograph. Winding stators for 16" fan motor on automatic winding machine.

A photograph of a man cutting off a completed roll of tyre cord from Tenasco (Courtaulds high tenacity Rayon yarn). Dated 20th century

Åkers stygery. Ms. Larsson and H. Karlsson concludes a component casting of a large iron plant roll. Underted.

I.Hälsingland's propeller.Hälsingland (depicted - name)

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa The Palestine Electric Cable Works. Vulcanized wire is strengthened & insulated by a cover of cotton yarn. 1939, Israel, Haifa

Torpedo pitch of the reinforcement shops, 1978 (photo t.b.v. All Hens).

State Railways, Sj Cement foundry

Firemen Sliding down Pole in Firehouse, USA, circa 1922

Scrap of locomotives on Vislanda scrap site.

Vintage photograph. Aluminum cable for power transmission lines being inspected at Kaiser Mill and Newark, Ohio

Potash lorries burned on Jericho road Great rubber tire of potash lorry still in full blaze when picture was taken on the following morning after attack on previous evening. 1938, Israel

Anefo photo collection. Agricultural exhibition Utrecht. May 1, 1952. Utrecht

Anefo photo collection. Metra works in Rotterdam, the Leuvenhaven station is ready. October 10, 1962. Rotterdam, South Holland

Workers and employees used the last casting of the Suedwestfalen steelworks in Hagen for a demonstrative protest at the loss of their jobs at the steelworks on 31.03.1976, Germany, Europe

Wine making, Richon. 1920, Israel, Rishon le-Tsiyon

French Rubber Industry. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

A damaged helicopter has its rotor and turbine removed for use as extra parts. Base: Fort Lewis State: Washington (WA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Series, a cow gets its hooves trimmed, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

In A Big Indian Tinplate Mill -- Sikh operator on a lathe in the machine shop. August 5, 1953.

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