Vintage Machinery Workers

Black and white photos of workers operating various machinery in a manufacturing setting, highlighting labor and craftsmanship from a bygone era.

Man looking at machine that is grinding a bearing to fit on a shaft, Worthington Pump and Machinery Corporation, Harrison, New Jersey
Man looking at machine that is grinding a bearing to fit on a shaft, Worthington Pump and Machinery Corporation, Harrison, New Jersey
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Country School- Everyday Life at Baldock County Council School, Baldock, Hertfordshire, England, UK, 1944 At Baldock County Council School, two boys examine a tractor engine. The school has a tractor driving club which cultivates two acres of land.
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Wood turner
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Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)
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MELVIN JOHNSON IN THE MACHINE SHOP.
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Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)
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Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)
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Poll photo collection. Cork industry in Llagostera (Catalonia region). Worker makes rough corks. undated. Llagostera, Spain
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Airplane maker at work. Is part of Object series AVDKM 540069 up to 540078.
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Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)
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Anefo photo collection. Commemoration of Philips Anniversary Eindhoven. May 16, 1951. Eindhoven
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Washing bottles at creamery. San Angelo, Texas 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , San Angelo, Texas , Tom Green County
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Anefo photo collection. Man at machine. January 23, 1946
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Atelier MESSIER (Aircraft). Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Enzo anselmo ferrari. workshop. mantova. 1955.
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Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)
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Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)
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Poll photo collection. Diamond trade, grinders, fair. Checking the sawing machines at Van Moppes in Amsterdam. January 1, 1932. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
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Madrid. 1915 (CA.) A corner of the gravure workshop equipped with the best machinery of the time.
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"You Have Been Warned" Christmas Message From "Heartbreak Corner" -- "What Can I Do With This" Mrs. J.G. Squires, a worker at "Heartbreak Corner" contemplates the contents of a broken parcel. Note the varied contents of others, consisting of fruit, eggs, tins of fish and even a radio set.A gentle reminder to pack and address your Christmas parcels properly is provided in this picture from "Heartbreak Corner", the Mount Pleasant (London) Postal Depot where over one thousand broken parcels arrive daily.As many as possible are repacked and sent on to their destinations, but a large number of them go astray because addresses are illegible or become torn off on account of the bad packing. December 01, 1948.
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Cotton screening at the Textil Institute in Borås, 1949.
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Bultfabrik's limited liability company in Hallstahammar.
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Moving wagon wheel with traverse.
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Female engineering worker in a metalwork's. England, during World War Two 1941
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Poll photo collection. Troon distance Queen Wilhelmina / Inauguration of Queen Juliana. Preparations. Inspection of gala rig in the harnessing room of the royal stable department .. September 1948. The Hague, South Holland
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Cleaning of locomotives.
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1930S Woman Worker Operation Finishing Machine In Knitting Mill Manchester Ct
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Man rivetting, General Motors assembly plant, Petone
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CPL Ray Tippett, an electrician with the ground support equipment section, greases the undercarriage of an NC-8 mobile electric power plant. Base: Marine Corps Air Station, Yuma State: Arizona (AZ) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Tools. December 10, 1951.;Tools.
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Bal Bearing - Industry. November 14, 1944.
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Vintage photograph. Miners getting wages on payday
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Workshop workers.
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Work in Trafikaktiebolaget Grängesberg - Oxelösund Railways, TGOJ Workshop in Eskilstuna.
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SAAR Story - Studies of Types - Miners, etc.. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Training For War Work- Chiswick Polytechnic, Turnham Green, 1941 Miss Grace Bridges uses a hacksaw at Chiswick Polytechnic. Before the war, she was a variety and cabaret dancer and is from a family of six.
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Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)
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Modernization of 40s.
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Workers. Original Title: Miscellaneous. 1930 - 1949.. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs
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Side view of boy standing next to machinery
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Assembling A Dynamo -- Women in the work are passing by rapid strides to becoming expert Engineers in all its branches. Here is seen a French women engaged in assembling a large Dynamo. October 30, 1918. (Photo by French Official Photograph).
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12/31/1958. School of Industrial Experts Directed by the Franciscan Nuns of the Sacred Hearts.
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Modernization of 40s.
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Women do men's work, repair an engine, 1940s, Germany, Europe
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War production worker at the Vilter Manufacturing Company making M5 and M7 guns for the U.S. Army, Milwaukee, Wis. Ex-housewife, age 49, now doing bench work on small gun parts. World war Two; USA
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Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)
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Welding Belle. Begrimed and with wrench in hand, Joanie Slides under the hotrod to tighten the chassis. Joanie the sports car fever. August 13, 1954. (Photo by United Press Photo).
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Cotton - ECA Cotton Worked Up and Used in France. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Women at work during the First World War- Munitions Production, Chilwell, Nottinghamshire, England, UK, c 1917 A portrait of a woman war worker as she drives her trolley around the factory floor at Chillwell shell-filling factory in Nottinghamshire. She is wearing overalls and a cap.
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Women's Factory War work at Slough Training Centre, England, UK, 1941 Betty Pridie measures a hinge at Slough Training Centre. The initials 'GTC' embroidered on her overall stand for 'Government Training Centre'.
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Production of aircraft engines. Zed W. Robinson, proves that skin pigment bears no relating to efficiency of work. He is one of many Negroes employed in a large Midwest aircraft plant. Photographer Ann Rosener (1914-2012). July 1942.