Historical Industrial Activities

Engravings depicting 19th century industrial activities, including mining, agriculture, and machinery use in various landscapes.

Panama Canal: cutting a channel to divert the river Chagres during the de Lesseps attempt to dig the Panama Canal, Wood engraving, 1888

Getting a wagon up a steep slope, Romania. Europe. Travel to the mining regions of western Transylvania by Jacques Elisee Reclus, 1873

Threshing machine with steam. Industrial Revolution. Engraving. 19th c.

PLANTING RICE IN MANILLA.

Gold mining in California: ground sluicing. Engraving, 1879.

COMBINED THRASHING AND STACKING MACHINE

Gathering, washing, bunching and carting carrots for the London market Date: circa 1850

Washing establishment for the general hospital at Baclava.

Miners washing for gold in the Californian gold fields. The apparatus they are using is called a Long Tom. From 'L'Illustration' Paris 18 June 1853. Wood engraving

Panama Canal: cutting a channel to divert the river Chagres during the de Lesseps attempt to dig the Panama Canal, Wood engraving, 1888

An engraving depicting a lowering tub of fir wood into a pit for burning. In addition to the windlass and the crossbar, the rope passes under a pulley. Dated 19th century

Miners washing for gold in the Californian gold fields. The apparatus they are using is called a Long Tom. From "L'Illustration" Paris 18 June 1853. Wood engraving

The brick factory. Draughtsman: Anthon Gerhard Alexander van Rappard. Dating: 1868 - 1892. Measurements: h 322 mm × w 587 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

THE LOWER CANADIAN AGRICULTURAL EXHIBITION, 1854

Engraving depicting a steam-driven threshing machine. Dated 19th Century

HOPS AND HOP PICKERS, IN A KENTISH HOP GARDEN, KENT, ENGLAND, FILLING THE POCKETS THE PRESS-HOUSE, ENGRAVING 1876, UK, britain, british, europe, united kingdom, great britain, european

Hand-powered threshing machine by Barrett, Exall & Andrews. These machines were more efficient than the traditional threshing with flails, the labour-intensive winter occupation of farm labourers. Engraving c1850.

Harvesting sugar cane in the colonies, 19th century. From Le Savant du Foyer ou Notions Scientifiques Sur Les Objets Usuels de la Vie, published 1864

LUMBERMEN AT WORK, THE DRIVE, LUMBERING, CANADA, NINETEENTH CENTURY ENGRAVING

Painting Exhibition of 1857, Threshing machine in Burgundy, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1857.

Hungary agriculture threshing of corn engraving late 19th century,

CORK MANUFACTURE IN SPAIN

Californina Gold Rush: Washing for gold in the Bedwell River in the Californian gold fields. Engraving, 1853.

Sacks of flour are being loaded onto a cart from a miller's storehouse. Etching.

Iron ore smelter at Fouta-Djallon, Senegal, Africa. Travel in Fouta Djallon by Lambert 1860

An engraving depicting the medieval process of smelting iron in England. In the Forest of Dean, Yorkshire and Sussex, ore was taken to the wood since it was easier than taking the wood to the ore. Dated 19th century

Engraving depicting men cutting osiers for basket making.

Pressing olives, Paris, 1853.

Bell's improved reaping machine by Crosskill, c1840. A farmer operates the machine by guiding two horses behind which push the harvester forward. Designed by the Scottish clergyman Patrick Bell (1799-1869) this was one of the first practical reaping machines to incorporate features that are still seen on modern combine harvesters. Engraving.

A cotton picker is either a machine that harvests cotton, or a person who picks ripe cotton fibre from the plants. The machine is also referred to as a cotton harvester.

UNITED KINGDOM. ENGLAND. Industrial Revolution. Sowing barley in February. Drawing by Gunning King published in 'The Illustrated London News'. Engraving.

Sawing and a standing boy, Jacob Ernst Marcus, 1812

Cyrus McCormick's reaping machine of 1831 (patented 1834), c1851. Artist: Anon

Illustration depicting the Weser workmen destroying Denis Papin's steamboat. Denis Papin (1647-1713) a French psychist, mathematician and inventor. Dated 18th Century

An engraving depicting navvies working on the Liverpool-Manchester Railway across Chat Moss Bog. Dated 19th century

Mine working in the South Staffordshire Coalfield, England. In this thick seam pillars of coal have been left to support the roof. A system of rails have been laid down and pit ponies are used to pull trolleys along them, taking corves of hewn coal to the mine shaft where they were raised to ground level. From 'Underground Life; or, Mines and Miners' by Louis Simonin (London, 1869). Wood engraving.

Civil engineering: work on the Suez canal. Wood engraving by M. Jackson, c.1864.

Engraving depicting the Copper mine or quarry, near Montreal, Canada. Dated 1860

Gold miners on the Rhine river, Alsace, France. Drawing by Frédéric Théodore LIX (1830 - 1897) Through Alsace and Lorraine, 1884 By Charles Grad (1842 - 1890) Le Tour du Monde 1886

The Spanish and French factories. Date: 1858

Coal-Heavers measuring and bagging coal for delivery to customers. In an era of bad roads, it was most economic to transport heavy cargoes such as coal by water, either by sea or by inland waterway, and to distribute it from waterside depots. From 'Costume of Great Britain' by William Henry Pyne (London, 1808). Aquatint.

Engraving depicting a general view of a steam boiler works. Dated 19th century

AGRICULTURAL PICTURES: WHEAT HARVEST

Sand collectors, men loading sand onto a cart, on the beach at Les Greves, 1869, France, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, Europe

Frey mechanical saw, France, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 1060, Volume XLI, June 20, 1863.

Cyrus McCormick's reaping machine of 1831, exhibited at the Crystal Palace exhibition of 1851.

The last days of harvest , Harvesting, Hay, Corn husking

Ironworks at Birmingham - tapping a furnace and running the molten metal into pigs Date: 1893

An engraving depicting the Brown and Polson's Cornflour factory, Paisley, Scotland. Dated 19th Century

Building an embankment for a railway line Date: 1881

The fourth Eddystone lighthouse built on the Stone 13 miles South-east of Polperro, Cornwall, England, which claimed up to 50 ships a year. Built by the English civil engineer John Smeaton (1724-1792) beginning in 1756 it was in operation for 127 years. Work in progress on the 15th course, showing the method of raising the blocks of Portland stone from the boat to working level. From Lives of the Engineers Vol. II by Samuel Smiles (London, 1861). Engraving.

Historia de Africa. Vapor"Stanley". Grabado por E. A. Tilly. El Congo y la Creación del Estado Independiente de este nombre. Historia de los Trabajos y Exploraciones Verificados, por Enrique M. Stanley. Editada en Barcelona, hacia 1890. España.

A steel rolling mill in Germany. Date: 1901

Fishermen mending herring gill-nets at House Island, Casco Bay, Maine. By T. W. Smillie.

Coal-Heavers measuring and bagging coal for delivery to customers. In an era of bad roads, it was most economic to transport heavy cargoes such as coal by water, either by sea or by inland waterway, and to distribute it from waterside depots. From Costume of Great Britain by William Henry Pyne (London, 1808). Aquatint.

Thomas Rakes and Tedders, Farm Machinery

Sawing tree trunk into planks. Engraving, London, 1837.

An engraving depicting sacks of grain taken to the mill for grinding. Dated 19th century

Indian mode of irrigation India Copyright: xJehangirxSorabjee/DinodiaxPhotox

Railway construction in Tsarist Russia, 19th century.

Threshing by hand on the floor of a barn in an English farmyard: the dog, meanwhile, has caught a rat Date: 1846

The building of William's Causeway at Ely

An engraving depicting men carting manure. Dated 19th century

Silver mining in Nevada in the 1870s. From American Pictures Drawn With Pen And Pencil by Rev Samuel Manning c. 1880, United States, America, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated, North America

Cultivator Forklift Khosrovani, Persia, vintage engraving. Cultivator Forklift Khosrovani, Persia, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1852. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10673853

Oil wells at Oil Creek, 150 miles up the Allegheny River from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Engraving from 'The Practical Dictionary of Mechanics' edited by Edward H Knight (New York and London, c1880)

Colón (former Aspinwall, United States of Colombia), Panama. Dredge "Hercules", used in the works for the opening of the Panama Canal. Made in Philadelphia (United States), it was transported to the site of the works at the end of March 1883. Engraving by Tomás Carlos Capuz (1834-1899). La Ilustración Española y Americana (The Spanish and American Illustration), 1883. Author: Tomás Carlos Capuz (1834-1899). Spanish engraver.

Equipment, on board the Great Eastern ship, for laying the transatlantic telegraphic cable, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 1375, Volume LIV, July 2, 1869.

An engraving depicting the blast furnaces at Coalbrookdale, Shropshire. Dated 19th century

Historic illustration, 19th century, an agricultural threshing machine powered by a portable steam engine, haymaking in 1896

DEBRET, Jean Baptiste (1768-1848). Black sawyers of plancks. Costumbrism. Litography.

A stone quarry: masons are working the stone, and a team of horses is pulling a cart carrying a massive stone. Lithograph by C. Motte after V. Adam.

Agriculture: schoolboys variously employed ploughing, digging, and raking earth. Engraving.

Production of wooden barrels, farm in Juodkrantė, Satnurta, Satnurte or Schwarzort, Curonian Spit, Curonian Lagoon, Lithuania, idyll, thatched houses, dormer, village, rural, well, work, forest, historical illustration 1880, Europe

Mowing hay. Woodcut, 1835.

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION

Hydraulic mining in the Californian goldfields. Engraving 1879

Enter in Paris of vegetables harvesting in the suburbs. (IT)

Hydraulic gold mining. California. United States of America. Drawing by Jules Pelcoq (1823-1887) Travels and adventures of Emile de Wogan (1817-1891) in California, 1850-1852. Le Tour du Monde 1860

MR. HEATHCOAT'S STEAM PLOUGH

Crop Rotation: Threshing rye grass for seed. In Norfolk 4-course system, wheat planted first year, followed by turnips, then barley, often underplanted with grass or grass and clover ley to be used for hay or grazing in 4th year. Engraving 1855

Man working on a cart with horses in front of it (creating manure). Draughtsman: Harmen ter Borch (mentioned on object). Dating: 31-Jan-1652. Place: Zwolle. Measurements: h 118 mm × w 149 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Work and faith Mormoni working in a quarry according to з. Зеŕata . A clip from a German magazine Laplante, Charles (1837 1903), T, .

AGRICULTURAL PICTURES: HAY HARVEST

Press at American cotton, vintage engraving. Press at American cotton, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1876. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10679811

Engraving depicting a mule carrying sacks of grain to the mill for grinding. Dated 19th century

Panning for gold during the Californian Gold Rush of 1849. From The Illustrated London News 6 January 1849. Wood engraving

Five men at work in a rope shop, F. Ricquier, c. 1825 - c. 1845 print paper etching rope-making

The Flood at Sheffield: remains of a wire-mill near Malin Bridge, 1864. 'The inquest...has resulted in a verdict declaring, of course, that the deceased came to their deaths by drowning in the inundation caused by the bursting of the Bradfield Reservoir...and the jury further declare their opinion "that there has not been that engineering skill and that attention to the construction of the works which their magnitude and importance demanded; that the Legislature ought to take such action as will result in a Governmental inspection of all works of this character, and that such inspection o

Construction of Panama Canal. Engraving, 1886.

Construction of Panama Canal. Engraving, 1886.

Production of oil in India, vintage engraving. Production of oil in India, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1876. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10679821

History agriculture. Mowing. Engraving, 19th century.

Dike construction after the flood, East Frisia, Lower Saxony, North Sea, coast, footbridge, wheelbarrow, worker, earth, destruction, dike, protection, land subsidence, Germany, historical illustration 1880, Europe

Using a 'long tom' to wash for gold in the Californian gold fields. The miners diverted the water courses, then dug out the ore-bearing sands which they washed for gold. The Californian Gold Rush began in 1849. From 'Underground Life; or, Mines and Miners' by Louis Simonin (London, 1869). Wood engraving.

History agriculture. Mowing. Engraving, 19th century.

Horse-drawn mechanical harvesters in use near Adelaide, Australia. In right background the threshed grain from a full machine is being put into sacks. The use of such combine harvesters on huge acreages in Australia, Canada and the United States produced cheap grain, and its import depressed grain prices in Britain. Engraving, 1886.

Slaves harvesting sugar cane in Louisiana, 1833. Artist: Unknown.

Reclined with a construction site. / Chantier. / Timmerhof. / Timber-Yard. / Timmerplaats, J. Scotti, 1829 - 1880 print View of a carpentry place, where a group of construction workers are busy building a wooden frame for a home. A city in the background. print maker: Europepublisher: Mainz paper timber yard, lumber stack. transport of timber, timber-trailer. building-site

Men hauling excavated soil up a shaft in a bucket suspended from a rope, driven by a steam hoist. Wood engraving, 1868.

Stanisław August in the mill near Marymont a fragment of the magazine Kluczewski, Michał (Fl. 1867 1887)

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