Historical Industrial Work

Black and white engravings depicting various industrial processes from the 19th century, including mining, construction, and soap making.

Construction of the new bridge : dredging trench for the new cast iron casing. Date: 1855

New York, Morgue ca. 1868.

Miners working metal deposits by means of descending levels, a method practised in Hungary, Saxony and Prussia in the early 19th century. From 'Underground Life; or, Mines and Miners' by Louis Simonin (London, 1869). Wood engraving.

Construction of the new bridge : dredging trench for the new cast iron casing. Date: 1855

An engraving depicting soap boilers at work at B. T. & W. Hawes Soap and Candle factory. Dated 19th century

Japanese blacksmith at Tokyo. Japan. Drawing by Alphonse de Neuville (1835-1885) Travel to Japan, 1863-1864 by Aime Humbert (1819 -1900) Le Tour du Monde 1867

An engraving depicting a furnace and hydraulic die - Phoenixville Work, Pennsylvania. Dated 19th century

Beim Glockengießen, schmelzen der Metalle und Bau der Gußrinne, Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 18. Jahrhu...

Engraving depicting work in progress at Plymouth Train Station, to change the line from a broad gauge to the standard gauge. Dated 19th century

Reaping and socking-up corn to dry, Lake Drie, Canada, 1880. Artist: Unknown

Silesian weavers uprising 1844 weaver attacks factory building and flat of an businessman wood engraving Leipzig 1844,

An engraving depicting a baker "setting a batch" - putting bread into the oven. Dated 19th century

Workers weighing bales of cotton in the port of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 19th century. From America Revisited: From The Bay of New York to The Gulf of Mexico, published 1886.

Grinding sugar cane in Cuba. Date: 1877

Miners washing for gold in the Californian gold fields, 1853. Artist: Unknown

Phoenix Iron and Bridge Works, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, 1873. Artist: Unknown

SEGADORA PRESENTADA EN LA EXPOSICION AGRICOLA DE 1857.

Hand-powered threshing machine by Barrett, Exall & Andrews, engraving, 1850

Engraving depicting the Bessemer process in action: manoeuvring the ladle into position to take the charge from the converter. The Bessemer method of making steel was invented by Henry Bessemer. Henry Bessemer (1813-1898) an English inventor. Dated 20th century

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

The manufacture of rope: general view of the spinning walk, showing the spinners (centre) with a supply of heckled hemp around their waists walking backwards from the wheel to which the stand they were working on was attached the plants on either side of the picture are hemp plants (Cannabis sativia). Dated 1845

A typical country store in Virginia, USA in the 19th century. From America Revisited: From The Bay of New York to The Gulf of Mexico, published 1886.

Engraving depicting a threshing machine and straw elevator operated by horses. Dated 19th Century

Illustration depicting the inside of a Swiss Alpine Chalet. A supply of firewood is stored overhead. Dated 19th Century

Puddling furnace: Man on the left is paddling pig iron to remove carbon and oxygen. Man on right is removing ball (bloom) of wrought iron. Engraving, London, 1866.

The Gold Rush, miners working north of Sonora, California, illustration from Wells' 'How We Get Gold in California,' 1860

Artwork: "Engine Build-Up Procedure at Jorhat Phase II" Artist: Jim Scott. Country: Unknown

Engraving of a housewife making candles in a colonial home. Dated 17th century.

'Hydraulic Mining', California, 1859.Artist: Gustave Adolphe Chassevent-Bacques

Washing ore to extract gold. Water is fed into a sieve containing crushed ore. Solution containing ore in suspension is fed along collecting pans, often lined with dark woollen cloth. Gold, being the heaviest ingredient, separated out on the way. From 1683 English edition of 'Beschreibung allerfurnemisten mineralischen Ertzt', Lazarus Ercker, (Prague, 1574). Copperplate engraving.

Engraving depicting workmen of the St Gotthard tunnel

Coal Mining: Underground scene showing full baskets (corves) of coal being loaded on a tram wagon using a crane. Pit ponies used to haul coal underground. From W Fordyce 'A History of Coal, Coke, Coal Fields ...' London 1860. Engraving.

Dockers unloading tea in London Docks, 1889. Engraving.

Rolling mills, Saint-Jacques works, Chatillon-Commentry Company. Men are wearing leggings and heavy leather aprons to protect them from contact with hot metal. Wood engraving Paris, 1894

Illustration depicting a flagman keeping watch at mouth of a tunnel under repair. Dated 19th century

Zinc production, zinc smelting, roasting of the zinc ores in the flame furnace, 1875, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date unknown

The Flemish Blacksmith, 1822. Théodore Géricault (French, 1791-1824). Lithograph;

Engraving depicting a steam excavator working on a railway embankment. Dated 19th century

Salting and traditional cod drying, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. French Shore of the island of Newfoundland 1886 by Lieutenant Louis Koenig (1847-1920)

Dockers unloading tea in London Docks, 1889. Artist: Unknown

Engraving depicting the production of sodium carbonate. Iron pans of crystallised soda- the end product of the Leblanc process.

Illustration of the paying-out machinery on the deck of the Great Eastern. Dated 19th Century

An engraving depicting the fitting of an iron tyre wheel. Dated 18th century

Illustration depicting the spinning of Oakum threads for caulking ships. Dated 19th Century

Woodcut engraving depicting the casting of iron pipes, at Butterley Iron Works. Dated 19th century

Work at work in a mine, supporting beams of the mine carpentry, 1870, Saxony, Germany, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Europe

Grape harvest, 1775. Artist: Unknown

An engraving depicting Gallowgate Lead Works. Dated 19th century

Phoenix Iron and Bridge Works, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, 1873. Artist: Unknown

A rice mill, Japan Date: circa 1860

Illustration depicting the production of the worsted using a warp-scouring. Dated 19th Century

Engraving showing a group of workmen laying pavement in a London street, c.1877. The men appear to be preparing an asphalt or glue substance, with which to lay the wooden paving blocks. Date: 24 February 1877

Engraving showing Norwegian ice being unloaded from a ship or barge at a London quay, 1874. Dockworkers are seen using cranes and axes to handle their load. Date: 1874

Dockers handle bales and barrels into different upper floors of a warehouse. Date: 1870

South Durham Salt Works, England. Shovelling salt from pans in which brine pumped up from borehole was evaporated (top). Stoking the furnace heating the evaporating tanks (bottom). Engraving, 1884

Propaganda extolling the idea of Chollima, used by Kim Il-sung to energize the workers in North Korea to bring the country out of the rubble of the Korean War to obtain a better life and a more prosperous country in a short amount of time. Kim Il-sung first introduced the term Chollima in December 1956, shortly before the start of the 1957-61 five-year plan

An engraving depicting an Irish weaver - Working in his own home, his finished lengths of cloth would be sold to a wholesaler who would often make part payment in yarn to be woven into the next length. Dated 19th century

Horse-drawn self-binding reaping machine by Walter A Woods. An advance on McCormicks reaper of the 1830s which left the cut corn lying in swathes for labourers to gather up and tie into sheaves, this machine delivered bound sheaves. From The Country Gentlemans Magazine, London, 1877. Engraving.

Illustration showing PUNCHING MACHINE used to perforate iron bars to take rivets during the construction of the Crystal Palace. 1850

Engraving depicting the interior of a French Fromagerie (cheese factory), in Vosges, France. Dated 19th Century

Engraving depicting the reaping of barley by hand. Dated 19th Century

Engraving depicting a female labourer at a tin mine in the St Just area of Cornwall. This woman was employed on the surface in preparing and washing ore. Dated 19th century

Engraving depicting men at work in a shipyard. Dated 19th Century

Storing ice in insulated sheds at Charles's Ice Store, Chelsea, London. For use in summer. Wood engraving 1861

Illustration from sketches by Special Artist Julius Price in Siberia showing Russian women working on the Siberian gold mines, shovelling ore like coal. Women are paid badly, worse than men. The ore is crushed by Chilean mills. Date: 1906

A steam plough is a steam-powered plough. It was invented in the mid-19th century and was a first step towards mechanising soil cultivation in agricul...

Engraving depicting a driver and a fireman on a train. The driver, right, peers along the track, while the fireman and his assistant keep the boiler fed. Dated 19th century

Engraving depicting a cooling floor in a distillery, where the mash was cooled after being boiled in the mash tun. Dated 19th century

De Kaap goldfields, Transvaal, South Africa. Water-powered stamping mill for crushing gold-bearing quartz ore, Moodie's Farms, near Brereton. Engraving from 'The Illustrated London News', 1887.

An engraving depicting the process of making turpentine: here dipping is in progress and gum is being collected from buckets on barked portions of pine trees. Dated 19th century

'The Foundry', c1880-1882.Artist: W Manfield

Bulking tea at a tea warehouse, 1874. Artist: Unknown

Tobacco manufacturing of paris, engraving by a.jahandier

industry metal pouring of crucible steel into moulds wood engraving 1898,

The United States. Virginia. 19th century. Workers smelting and refining silver. Engraving in "Frank Leslie's", 1878.

An engraving depicting workers from London's East End, on their annual hop picking holiday, in Kent. 1887

The spoil heaps are used to fill in the cupola shaft, to cut off the air supply and thus extinguish the fire raging below at the pit in Barnsley, England. Date: December 1866

An engraving depicting a Malting kiln, in which the germination of barley was halted. Barley was spread on floor (centre) after steeping and sprouting, and a fire lit in the furnace beneath. 1866

HYDRAULIC GOLD MINING IN THE AUSTRALIAN ALPS

Gold mining in Australia in 1880 / Goldgewinnung in Australien im Jahre 1880, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert,.

Canada, Wheat Harvest in new land, 1880

Manufacturing cheese in Australia - the home farm - milking the cows - the cheese room - breaking up the curd Date: 1891

Engraving depicting a deep draining machine -capable of making a drain 1- 1.2 m deep at a rate of 91m per hour. Dated 20th Century

USA. Dakota. Steam-snorting engines power threshing machines harvesting the wheat crop in Dakota territory during the late 1870. Engraving.

In the collecting basin of the pumping station, sewerage, Berlin, underground, sewage, smell, two workers, boots, shovel, ladder, corridor, walls, Germany, historical illustration around 1989, Europe

Doing the Ale rounds at Barclay and Perkins Brewery 1847

Engraving depicting a water mill during winter. The structure and surrounding area is covered in snow. Dated 19th century

Engraving showing the crushing mill of Vigra gold mine, beside the Hirgwm river in North Wales, 1862. The waterwheel shown was about 60ft in diameter and worked a Cornish crushing machine which crushed 40 tons of ore per day. Date: 1862

Australia. 19th century. Gold Rush. Prospectors looking for gold nuggets. Engraving.

The Gold Mine of Vigra in Wales, 1869, England, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date unknown

Work in blast furnaces in Montigny-sur-Sambre, Hainaut province. Belgium, Europe. Journey to Belgium by Camille Lemonnier. Old 19th century engraving from Le Tour du Monde 1906

The Rubislaw Granite Quarriy near Aberdeen. Closed in 1971 the quarry is now filled with water and is one of the largest man-made holes in Europe. Much of the grantite to build the City of Aberdeen was extracted over a period of 200 years. Black and White Illustration from Our Own Country Vol III published by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co. in the late 19th century.

An engraving depicting garden tools and a hotbed frame. The frame is raised on a bed of manure and straw which generated the bottom heat needed to produce a crop. Dated 19th century

Cultivating tea bushes, Canton.

Miners in the Harz mines, Germany, descending the ladder shaft by the light of an oil lamp. From 'Underground Life; or, Mines and Miners' by Louis Simonin (London, 1869). Wood engraving.

Dry blowers at Hannan's gold field, West Australia. An example of poverty stricken workers patiently sifting through the extensively turned soil hoping to find some unearthed gold. Date: 1895

'Excavating and washing of sands at the bottom of a river', California, 19th century.Artist: Gustave Adolphe Chassevent-Bacques

América del Sur. Industrialización salitrera en el Perú. Cuadrilla de "chancheros" desmenuzando el material. Grabado por Bernardo Rico (1825-1894). La Ilustración Española y Americana, 15 de octubre de 1883.

Sectional view of manhole in New York street, showing telephone cables being spliced. The Eclectic Telephone, New Tork, 1890.

The Building in Hyde Park, for the Great Exhibition of 1851 - Punching Machine, 1850. View of '...the operations of punching bolt-holes in the bars of iron, and cutting off the ends by the shears. These modes of substituting mechanical for manual labour are to be seen in every large mechanical establishment in the kingdom. It may be mentioned here, that about 3000 holes are punched during the present working day of ten hours'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

Charcoal burners in the Lake District, north west England, known locally as colliers. From November to April the men cut and hauled wood. In April and May they peeled bark off the oak wood they had cut and this would be used for tanning leather. In summer they made charcoal, living in or near the woods in teams of about 12 so that there would be someone to tend burning clamps at all times. Engraving from 'The English Illustrated Magazine' (London, 1884).

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