Vintage Printing Industry Scenes

Black and white photographs showcasing various printing environments, workers operating machinery, and the production process from the late 19th to early 20th centuries.

Press Room, Planet Newspaper, Richmond, Virginia, USA, 1900

Women working sorting Coffee beans, Greater Manchester, England, early 20th century

Men working in the metal shop at Benson Polytechnic in Portland, Oregon. The photograph was taken on Dec. 27, 1918 during World War One. It is marked for official use only by the Benson Polytechnic School Training Detachment.

"American soldiers examining a truck motor at Continental Motors Corporation in Detroit, Michigan during World War One. The motor was being tested and prepared for government use. This photograph was taken on May 18, 1918."

The image shows the motor repair department at Iowa State College in Ames, Iowa during World War One. It was taken by photographer S. A. T. C. Iowa State College on April 27, 1919. The description number is A. U. issued C and the photo is marked for official use only.

Construction hall on the first floorConstruction hall on the first floor

Worker in Old Time Garment Shop, New York City, 1912. Views of working conditions in America. Photo Credit: Lewis Wickes Hine.

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa 'Shemen' oil works. Powdered soap being packed. 1939, Israel, Haifa

A corner in the press room , Employees, Mail-order businesses, Printers, Printing presses, Sears, Roebuck and Company

The telegraph expedition at Stockholm Central about 1918. Sitting in the background in the center workshop champion B. Hjertqvist.

Photograph of store room on 1st floor of Pier 3, D.P. 228. Depicts interior storeroom view with boxes and ladder..

'The Express Dairy Company's Hygenic Dairy at Hampstead', 1902. Creator: Unknown.

Painting workshop (iron furniture).

Public Works Department, Drafting Room. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. 9x12 machines ...... industry. undated

Printing Office Malua (Apia) downstairs, circa 1910, Malua, maker unknown.

Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. Touwfabriek Maassluis. Slogle winds Touwfabriek Maassluis. 1919. Maassluis, South Holland

Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. Child labor 1900 earthenware industry. "Circa 1900"}. Gouda, South Holland

Interior of Wiener Newstadt Factory.

Tile Press porcelain factory Rozenburg, porseleinfabriek Rozenburg, The Netherlands, Ritscher & Landsman, Ritscher, Landsman, 1890.

American soldiers working on repairing a vehicle's magneto and carburetor at the Q.M. Mechanical Repair Shop, Unit #305, in Paso, Texas in 1918. The photograph, taken by E.C. Ditto, showcases the efforts of the military in maintaining their equipment during World War One. #WWI #MilitaryMaintenance

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

Citizens' Committee of Warsaw. Relastic work section at ul. Grzybowska 43; 1915 (1915-00-00-1915-00-00);

The Radio Center in Gothenburg, where Sweden's radio telecommunications traffic with abroad is managed next to 1938. The center later moved to Stockholm.

Wirless Operator Mechanics' Workshop, 1940. Artist: Unknown

Arab factories & general improvements in Nablus, Match factory Boys at work on match boxes. 1940, West Bank, Nablus, Middle East, Palestine

Workers at work in the packing department of the Amstel Beer Brewery, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1922. Archive 1920s Photograph of Dutch Beer Industry

Caption: "A technician working at the chemical and bacteriological laboratory in the Peckakill factory of the Fleischmann Co. during World War One. The lab was involved in the production of compressed yeast. Date: January 27, 1919."

The tailor shop. Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915. Photographs. 1904. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. African Americans , Biography, Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tailor shops

Oswin Siebert at the lathe in his workshop

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

Pergine. Epidemiespital. Kitchen .

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa The Palestine Electric Cable Works. Testing the cables after insulation. 1939, Israel, Haifa

Enlisted men of the 1st Replacement Regiment of Engineers learn practical aspects of oxy-acetylene welding at the Engineers' School of Oxy-Acetylene Welding in Washington Barracks, D.C. The facility is equipped with an acetylene generating system, preheating oven, and apparatus for welding various materials, including aluminum.

Porcelain factory Rozenburg's painting room.

Inspecting tables, White Oak Cotton Mills. Greensboro, N.C. 1909. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. North Carolina, Greensboro (N.C.), White Oak Cotton Mills, Cotton industry , North Carolina , Greensboro

Spanish industry, 1958. Moto Guzzi Hispania. Emtisa Factory. Assembly section of motorcycles. Barcelona. Spain.

From the workshop on Mosebacke 1895. The connecting workshop. (Stockholm)

This 1903 photo shows the inside of a camera factory with workers testing lenses.

Photograph shows Indonesian workers preparing food. Dutch East Indies, known as modern Indonesia. Dated c1935.

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

Namikawa's Workroom - Japan, circa 1900

The 1912 caption reads: Making Pictures Indoors. Top: Here is the property room of a large motion picture company with its thousands of costumes, as well as weapons and armour. Here you see costumes for priests, peasants, courtiers, and soldiers, in such numbers that the actors may be provided no matter when or where the scene of the play is laid. Skillful sewing women are ready to alter any costume to make it fit, or to make new ones if necessary. Bottom: This is the interior of a great picture studio with its bewildering tangle of wires and pipes and its many lights. As you see two differen

Anefo photo collection. Storm damage Amsterdam, roof of storage school West. December 23, 1954. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Part of the technical college model collection during the cleaning and restoration work. April 1934.

Weavers at work

Petrikau, stable washing institution of the g.a.e.k. Repair workshop. .

Photograph of interior of lots 7-8-11-12, Bl. 2124, 44-45 Wash. Ave, racks on ground floor of Max Spinner.

... a look in the Silver Works of the Silver Works of the precious metal companies on Vredenburg 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13.

FILM HISTORY: EDISON STUDIOS. HISTORIA DEL CINE. PRIMEROS ESTUDIOS. Edison Motion Picture Studio se instaló a partir de 1907 en un edificio de Decatur Avenue con Oliver Place, en el Bronx (Nueva York).

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Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. Tobacco factory Mignot De Block Eindhoven. Coffin upholstery. Department Processing girls 13 15 old. undated. Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant

Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. Manufacture tennis balls. 3. pieces stuck Solidie. 1919

Anefo photo collection. Shoes industry. Shoes industry. November 12, 1945

The College of the City of New York demolished a forge and foundry room to create a Multiplex Printing Telegraph Room for the Signal Corps during World War One. This image captures the room, which was equipped with modern printing telegraph technology. Official use only.

Portrait of Group of Workers in Cotton Mill, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, circa 1908

Vegetable body. .

Delicacies weighed and packed in Armour's Packing-House in Chicago, showing some dubious by-products of a Chicago meat processing factory used for making cheap sausages. Exposed by Upton Sinclair in his book, 'The Jungle', the meat processing factories were seen to be guilty of using foul or diseased waste meat to make cheap products bought by the poor as well as mistreatment of workers. Date: 1906

Manufacture of sprays to aircraft wing, Fokker, 1918.

Photograph of the construction of British bomber planes. Dated 1939

African, Americans, mostly women, sorting tobacco at the T.C. Williams & Co., tobacco, Richmond, Virginia, New Orleans. Images collected by W.E.B. Du Bois, (William Edward Burghardt) (1868-1961), and Thomas J Calloway for the American Negro Exhibit at the Paris Exposition of 1900. Published 1899.

Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. Tobacco factory Mignot De Block Eindhoven. Sorting cigar factory. Age 15, 16, 17 above. Training hours reimbursement hourly wage. Weekoon 15-, 16 17-year-olds respectively average 7, - 8.50 10. Production 10000, 12500, 15000 cigars. hours 8 12 2 6 Saturday afternoon free. undated. Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant

Japanese factory making boxes for export

Lump sorters in Grycksbo Paper mill .Photo from the 1920s.

The repair shop. Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915. Photographs. 1904. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. African Americans , Biography, Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Stores & shops, Furniture, Maintenance & repair

Machine hall at Tillberga Railway workshops.

Industry during the First World War Female workers inspect gas masks at Edric Hall in the Southwark area of London during the First World War.

Aerial view of a biscuit manufacturing display, making ice cream wafers, in the Central Hall of the Power and Production Building, Festival of Britain, South Bank, London. Date: May 1951

Telephone exchange inside an anti-aircraft intelligence centre in Paris; receives warning of a raid by German Zeppelin airships; during World War One 1916

Standard Refinery, Pittsburgh, Pa. Johnson's photographic views in the oil regions of Pennsylvania. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Petroleum chemical industry , Environmental aspects, Petroleum industry , New York (State), Petroleum industry , Pennsylvania

Madrid, 1906 (CA.), Typewriters at the ABC printing press.

Image of some compressor aggregates, designed as an independent trailer, in a mounting hall of and produced by the bodywork and construction workshops N.V. Jan Jongerius (Kanaalweg 34) in Jutphaas.n.b. This part of the municipality of Jutphaas is on 1 Jan. 1954 joined to the municipality of Utrecht. The address was changed later in Kanaalweg 64.

Character hall for machine elements as well as for lifting and transport machinesCharacter hall for machine elements as well as for lifting and transport machines

A group of young Sioux men in a workshop making saddles. Date: 1905

Colonial Ghana (Gold Coast) radio station for the BBC. Accra. 1953

Interior of the monster room of the first Dutch factory of steel health mattresses Auping in Deventer, on the site of the first annual fair in Utrecht.

12/18/1929. The Printing Office of the Gutenberg Museum, Mainz. The first prints were produced with this printing press from 1448. PHOTO DIAZ MURGA.

Main Division of the Automobile Tire Building Department of the Diamond Rubber Company. 540 men are shown in this group. Date: 1910

1914 - 1917. National Archives at College Park - Archives II (College Park, MD). Negative. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Irrigation Division. (1924 - 1940). Indian Life on the Western Reservation

Photograph of Female Employees Operating Wetting Machines. Bureau of Engraving and Printing Facilities and Activities. Department of the Treasury

Building and Bo Exhibition at Liljevalchs 1925. Bolinders mechanical workshop exhibition in hall.

Telegraph and telephone station (probably Notepon) with telegraph apparatus and telephone exchange table (100-line selector) of L.M. Ericsson's manufacturing from the 1880s. The photo is probably at the turn of the century 1900. Possibly in Eslöv.

N.N., Provinzial-Steinanstalt, Conradstein. Farm building with cooking and laundry room (1898): Interior view cuisine. Photo on cardboard, 23.6 x 32.6 cm (including scan edges) N.N. : Provinzial-Irrenanstalt, Conradstein. Wirtschaftsgebäude mit Koch- und Waschküche

Mexican women pecan shellers at work. Union plant. San Antonio, Texas. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , San Antonio, Texas , Bexar County

Atelier de femmes. Fabrication des pieces de fusils.. Société des automobiles Delahaye. Photographs. 1916. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Women , Employment in munitions , France , Paris, World War, 1914-1918 , Women's work , France , Paris

Machines Perforating Postage Stamps - Output of Each Machine Forty-Two Million Stamps Daily. Bureau of Engraving and Printing Facilities and Activities. Department of the Treasury

"Wing frame assembly at the Dayton-Wright Co. airplane manufacturing plant in Dayton & Moraine City, Ohio. This photograph was taken on June 10, 1918, and received from the company on February 23, 1918. It is marked as 'Issued for official use only.' The plant was owned by the Dayton Wright Airplane Co. based in Dayton, Ohio."

Postage Stamp Gumming Machines - Feed End. Bureau of Engraving and Printing Facilities and Activities. Department of the Treasury

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