Historical Industrial Processes

Artistic representations and historical images of industrial processes, including coal mining, submarine construction, and 19th-century manufacturing.

The Big Hammer giving a blow of 3,000 tons, used for heavy forging work in the Armstrong Whitworth, Elswick works, Newcastle on Tyne, England, founded in 1847 by engineer William George Armstrong. Fro

Interior construction of a submarine, World War I, circa 1916

The coal mine, Swansea , Smokestacks, Coal mining. Joseph Pennell (1857-1926). Prints and Drawings

The first Bessemer converter, from The Illustrated London News of 27 August 1856. England, 19th century.

Night work for the construction of buildings, 1869, Moniteur, Paris, France, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date unknown, Europe

Painting by the famous Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh (30th March 1853 - 29th July 1890), work titled Carpenters shed and yard. Painted in 1882.

The Big Hammer giving a blow of 3,000 tons, used for heavy forging work in the Armstrong Whitworth, Elswick works, Newcastle on Tyne, England, founded in 1847 by engineer William George Armstrong. Fro

The Cambria Steel Works, Johnstown, Pennsylvania - Drawing by Joseph Pennell, circa 1915

Landscape with two mills and a horse cart, Andreas Schelfhout, 1797 - 1870 drawing paper. chalk factories and mills in landscape. two-wheeled vehicle drawn by one animal

19th century cutaway view of a windmill showing the machinery used to grind grain. After an illustration in Les merveilles de l'industrie, by Louis Figuier, published 1877.

The Great Arkansas Valley Smelter at Leadville, one of the original smelters in the American Smelting and Refining Company, circa 1910

Nobel Brothers oil wells at Baku (Baky or Baki), Azerbaijan, on the Caspian Sea. Engraving from 'The Illustrated London News' (London, 3 July 1886).

Construction of the industry palace (dummy title)

Fukagawa Business Park, 1945 print Workers walking past factories with smoking chimneys. In original passepartout with white label on the bottom right on which the title and name of artist. paper color woodcut factory-building. smoke-stack Tokyo

Spanish industry, 19th century. Ferrol, Galicia. Launching of the first iron ship built in the shipyards of Messrs. Otero, Gil and Co., on 20 August 1884. Drawing by Monleon. Engraving by Capuz. The Spanish and American Illustration (La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana). September 15, 1884.

Spanish industry, 19th century. Ferrol, Galicia. Launching of the first iron ship built in the shipyards of Messrs. Otero, Gil and Co., on 20 August 1884. Drawing by Monleon. Engraving by Capuz. The Spanish and American Illustration (La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana). September 15, 1884.

OIL TANKS, CANADA, NINETEENTH CENTURY ENGRAVING

An engraving depicting the Thames Goldfields, Grahamstown, New Zealand. Dated 19th century

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Joseph Pennell, Planing Big Shells, 1916 Planing Big Shells

Joseph Pennell, Edgar Thomson Works, Bessemer, 1909 Edgar Thomson Works, Bessemer

From the tops of the furnaces , Smokestacks, Furnaces, Bridges, Rivers, Ships. Joseph Pennell (1857-1926). Prints and Drawings

Laird's Graving Docks at Birkenhead, the Hibernia under Repair, 1861

Exterior of Stockholm's gas plant in Värtan. Råkammarsugnarna.etsning of Ragnhild Nordensten 1931.

Unloading Grain, John Linnell, 1792-1882, British, 1806, Black and white chalk on moderately thick, slightly textured, blue laid paper, Sheet: 4 5/8 x 5 1/8 inches (11.7 x 13 cm), alley, bags, bales, buildings, cart, genre subject, granary, horse (animal), mast, men, rigging, ship, warehouses

Construction of the The Forth Bridge, a cantilever railway bridge across the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland, April 15, 1887. Old 19th century engraving from La Nature 1887

In the land of iron and steel , Railroads, Railroad tracks, Smokestacks, Furnaces. Joseph Pennell (1857-1926). Prints and Drawings

Port face in Rotterdam. 2 copies, of which a test pressure (signed). .

The processing of cotton, carding, 1810, America, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original.

Elisha Kent Kane Wetherill, Otto Coke and Coal Hoist, 1914 Otto Coke and Coal Hoist

The Italian transatlantic liner Rex is being built at the Ansaldo shipyard in Sestri Ponente, Genoa, Italy, lithograph by Riccardo Lombardo, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, year LVIII, n 32, August 9, 1931.

railway engineering work is carried out at night, in Paris, by the electric light.

Illustration of an abandoned mine during the Russian Revolution. 1917

Coal mining. Herscheuse Mining. Quaregnon County. Belgium. Colored engraving from 1884.

Charles A Platt, Salt Shanties, 1880 Salt Shanties

Zuiderzeewerk, Johan Hendrik van Mastenbroek, 1932 print paper sea. digging (industrial process) Zuiderzee

NOVA SCOTIA, MINING SCENES IN THE CALEDONIAN MINES, CANADA, NINETEENTH CENTURY ENGRAVING

The walls of Miraflores Lock , Locks Hydraulic engineering, Canal construction, Hoisting machinery, Construction workers, Railroad tracks. Joseph Pennell (1857-1926). Prints and Drawings

MAIN DRAINAGE OF THE METROPOLIS. SECTIONAL VIEW OF THE TUNNELS FROM WICK LANE, NEAR OLD FORD, BOW, LOOKING WESTWARD, UK, 1859

The processing of cotton, carding, carding, 1810, America, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Threshing Corn. Genre subject. Watercolor and graphite on thick, cream, rough wove paper. Height: 289 mm (11.37 in); Width: 448 mm (17.63 in). Author: Peter DeWint.

Sand excavation in the dunes at The Hague, 1846. Sand excavation In the dunes at The Hague, seen at the Laan van Meerdervoort, Winter 1846. Workers engaged in doughing dunes, possibly on the command of King Willem II for a channel. The sand is moved with wheelbarrows.

industry metal industry Krupp cast steel factory Essen view detail 1912,

View of the sugar factory in Pangka, Johan Conrad Greive, after Abraham Salm, 1869 print Smoking the chimneys of the factory. Figures are busy on the site. The print is part of a cover with a text sheet and 24 individual prints. print maker: Amsterdamafter design by: Dutch East Indies, Thepublisher: Amsterdam paper landscapes in tropical and sub-tropical regions. factory in landscape Java

Hay wagon and two figures near a barn, Hendrik Valkenburg, 1861, Sheet 41 recto from a sketchbook with 77 sheets., draughtsman: Hendrik Valkenburg, Jul-1861, paper

NEWCASTLE, UK, 1881: ELSWICK WORKS, SIR WILLIAM ARMSTRONG

Bethlehem Steel Works 1881. by Joseph Pennell, 1857-1926, artist. Pennsylvania, Bethlehem. Watercolour in sepia brown, white and Gray, on buff paper. View across river to relatively small steel operation, various smokestacks, one blowing fire, smoky sky above, hills beyond.

THE MINERS' STRIKE IN DURHAM

Cotton manufacture: mule spinning. Note boy on right employed to crawl under threads & sweep up. Self-acting mule of type devised by Richard Roberts 1825. Roof of building supported by iron trusses. Engraving c1830.

Overview of a foundry, vintage engraved illustration. From the Universe and Humanity, 1910.

Dinner time, Gatun Lock , Locks Hydraulic engineering, Canal construction, Hoisting machinery, Canal construction workers. Joseph Pennell (1857-1926). Prints and Drawings

Interior of Vom Rath company sugar factory, draughtsman: Ernst Witkamp, 1885, paper, brush, h 384 mm × w 495 mm

France, The Foundry

Trubia factory. Transporting the guns destined to battleship Pelayo. Engraving by Rico in "The Spanish and American Illustration", 1872. Colored. Spain. Asturias.

Engraving depicting the unloading of sugarbeet by means of an electric elevator at the Sermaise sugar factory - circa 1890.

Construction of Panama Canal. Engraving, 1886.

Testing a diesel engine at the Augsburger Maschinenfabrik Date: 1911

Railway Storage Yard. Date: August 1888, Arles. Dimensions: 24.2 cm x 32.0 cm. Museum: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Author: VINCENT VAN GOGH.

BLAST FURNACES, FROM THE RIVER, MIDDLESBROUGH, a large town situated on the south bank of the River Tees in north east England, that sits within the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire. UK. A blast furnace is a type of metallurgical furnace used for smelting to produce industrial metals, generally iron

Weaver. Date: December 1883-August 1884, Nuenen. Dimensions: 34.2 cm x 45.3 cm. Museum: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

ARTESIAN BORING MACHINERY, FOR OBTAINING WATER FOR THE NEW CRYSTAL PALACE, AT SYDENHAM

Tanneries on the Bievre Billiards. Tanneries on the Bievre. Watercolor.

Excavation of the Erie Canal at the 'deep cut', west of Lockport, on the section of the canal between Buffalo and Lockport (BSLOC_2019_7_98)

The morning of the five-year plan. Artist Y.D. Romas. The construction of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works.

View of the Creuzot colliery and ironworks in Burgundy, France, illustration from the magazine The Illustrated London News, volume LVI, April 16, 1870. Detail. Digitally colorized image.

Engraving depicting blast furnaces at night. Dated 19th century

Forging the Anchor William James Muller (1812-1845 British) City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, England

hydraulic crane in the harbor of La Spezia, Italy / Hydraulikkran im Hafen von La Spezia, Italien, Historisch, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert.

The Gold Rush, washing for gold in California, 1849, engraving 1869

Scaffolding with fishermans. .

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

"Niagara" - Also Salvage Scenes - Merchant Shipping. March 01, 1955.

Building warships in a large naval yard on a river in Scotland in 1918. Tugs help to transport ship parts where they need to go. Date: 1918

Shot of different parts of a foundry, vintage engraved illustration. From the Universe and Humanity, 1910.

Engraving depicting the interior of a coal-mine.

Trekkuit and fishermen on a river along mills; The Kostverloren Wetering to see the Overtoom. .

Smelting and refining plant, The Omaha and Grant Smelting Company, Omaha, Nebraska

Joseph Pennell, Building the Battleship, 1917 Building the Battleship

Soviet collective Farming. Illustration 1965.

James Nasmyth's steam hammer erected in his foundry near Manchester in 1832. Painting by Nasmyth.

Bessemer process in operation at steel works, Sheffield, England, in presence of Shah of Persia , 1889.

Construction of the Kiel Canal, historical illustration, ca. 1893

A Factory Interior, unknown artist, ( W. W. ), 1871, Watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and white gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 11 7/8 × 14 1/2 inches (30.2 × 36.8 cm), architectural subject

Trubia factory. Transporting the guns destined to battleship Pelayo. Engraving by Rico in 'The Spanish and American Illustration', 1872. Colored. Spain. Asturias.

Digitally restored, Der Reichshafen, Hafen und die kaiserliche Werft in Kiel, Deutschland, Veroeffentlichung aus dem Jahr 1882, Digitally improved:, The Reichshafen, port and the imperial shipyard in Kiel, publication from the year 1882

Opening oyster shells on board a pearling schooler.

Aluminum Plant at Listerhill, Alabama.

Mechanical spinning. France, 19th century.

United States. 19th century. South Boston Iron Company. Engraving, 1884. Colored.

John Wilson Carmichael, 1799-1868, British, A View of Murton Colliery near Seaham, County Durham, 1843. Oil on canvas.

Artwork: "Mulberry at Work" Artist: Dwight C. Shepler #159. Country: Unknown

Within the furnaces , Furnaces, Iron industry, Industrial facilities. Joseph Pennell (1857-1926). Prints and Drawings

The Base of the Blast Furnace, Joseph Pennell, American, active England, 1857-1926, Lithograph on ivory laid paper, At left, the base of the blast furnace. At right, a number of workmen and some machinery., USA, 1917, architecture, interiors, Print, Print

View of mechanical workshops, docks for docking ships, coloured illustration from Une cite industrielle, etude pour la construction des villes (An industrial city, study for the construction of cities), Plate 163, Volume II, by Tony Garnier, 1917, Paris.

Construction of the The Forth Bridge, a cantilever railway bridge across the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland, March 7, 1887. Old 19th century engraving from La Nature 1887

London Sugar International, Ports of Call

The Fight for the Harvest: Sorting of Seeds in a Mordva Collective Farm. 1933 Russian postcard after painting by Jeroushew.

Brickmakers near Hemiksem. Date/Period: Before 1690. Painting. Oil on panel Oil. Height: 438 mm (17.24 in); Width: 670 mm (26.37 in). Author: DAVID TENIERS THE YOUNGER.

Landscape with Industrial Buildings by a River. Date/Period: Ca. 1890. Landscape. Oil on board. Height: 229 mm (9.01 in); Width: 305 mm (12 in). Author: Hercules Brabazon Brabazon.

Industrial landscape. Ironworks at night, blast furnace in centre. Wales. Artist, Penry Williams (1798-1885) Private collection

Construction of Wachusett Dam, Clinton, Mass., 1903 , waterworks, dams hydraulic structures, construction sites

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