Historical Industrial Work Scenes

Black and white images depicting industrial workers in various settings, including coal handling and shipyards, showcasing machinery and labor from the mid-20th century.

International Salt Company's Retsof mine at Retsof, New York. Batteries of crushers, installed on floors below primary screens, reduce large lumps to the various sizes required.

Soldiers were deployed to break a strike of municipal staff (public urban transport, dirt collection service, streets, gas factory, power plant) in March / April 1955 in Amsterdam.

Carling (Lorraine) Project. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943.

The Royal Navy during the Second World War View of the boiler room of HMS MOURNE whilst she was docked at Liverpool. A stoker can be seen checking some of the machinery.

International Salt Company's Retsof mine at Retsof, New York. Batteries of crushers, installed on floors below primary screens, reduce large lumps to the various sizes required.

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. Construction and improvement of roads, dikes and savings basins, study center, land consolidation, setup, the Langeveld. August 1957

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

AB Svenska Railway Workshops Falun, 3-4/10-61

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

New building.The submarine of engine.Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Poerwokerto, Poerbolingo, Bobotari, between Tjilatjap-MeloWoeng railway. Poerwokerto: On December 9, the Tjilatjap Meloowoeng railway route was opened again. Oils of the locking of the locomotive. December 9, 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Pin boy at bowling alley, Clinton, Indiana, USA, Arthur Rothstein, U.S. Farm Security Administration, February 1940

SAAR Story - Coal - Apprentice Training. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Opening of a rubber factory in Getash. A Javanese worker at a machine. December 4, 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Location at work.

Grimsby Trawlers- Everyday Life With the Fishermen, Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England, UK, 1945.

Elders in work on putting firewood in the forehead.

1930s 1940s ROLLING FORGED STEEL MANUFACTURE OF RAILCAR AND LOCOMOTIVE WHEELS AT STANDARD STEEL WORKS IN BURNHAM PA USA

Where does we Olson LiveFulmain F. Olson. December 5, 1949.

HMS Howe. August 1942. In one of the engine rooms, an ERA (engine room artificer) opens the throttle valve in response to an order from the bridge.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC series Borneo; Book Borneo. Sawmill. Man treats a circular saw with a grinder. June 1948. Borneo, Borneo, Indonesia, Kalimantan, Dutch East Indies

Vintage photograph. Man filling kegs of beer at Ruppert Brewery, New York City

Anefo photo collection. Clock casts at Van Bergen in Heiligerlee. November 11, 1949. Groningen (province), Heiligerlee

Singapore - One of the steam hammer in the blacksmiths shops. July 07, 1941.

Sterner and Blomquist AB, Malmö, 1944. In the modern examination room sample and incorporated engines with varying speed and load. The test drive establishes diagrams and power curves over the weather obtained.

Anefo photo collection. Textile manufacturing stockings in Tilburg. Worker pours liquid into a cupboard. undated. Noord-Brabant, Tilburg

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

Machinist with a Brevet welder at the work A / B from Kruiser Hr.Ms. De Ruyter (C 801), October 1955.

This Full Scale Hydraulic System At The Dowty Hydraulic Company At Cheltenham, Gloucester, England Makes Learning Very Easy. Here Sgt. W.H. Riddick Of Coffeville, Missp., M/Sgt. T.R. Nila Of N. Platte, Neb., Cpl. L.G. Hanson Of Barnstead, New Hampshire A

Poll photo collection. Netherlands Antilles and Suriname at the time of the royal visit of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in 1955. Houtzagerij. October 1, 1955. Suriname

AB Svenska Railway workshops Falun, 3-4/10-61. Wagon production

Modern Equipment Helps Increase France's Steel Output - USINOR. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Vintage photograph. Man operating Headrig of Butte Creek Lumber Company.

The plow smith, the lighthouse house or the old smithy. Photo for 1890. Photo: Carl Larsson, Gävle. Plogsmedjan, glödgugnshuset eller gamla smedjan. Foto för 1890. Foto: Carl Larsson, Gävle.

Track Revision in big teams. Adjustment of rail joints

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

U.S. Maritime "Engineer Cadets" at Work on Steam Reciprocating Engine.

Anefo photo collection. Leather and textile manufacturer. 1945

Reactor transport in Huddinge

Work in the steam boiler soot cabinet.

Image of work on the aerial change devices of train sets in the Lijnwerkplaats of the N.S. in Leidschendam.

General Motors. Chevrolet factory. Locking two tons front axis hammer. At the factory there are about 130 hammers.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC General Doorman visits Bandoeng. Ltd Head Workplace 81 in Bandoeng? Maintenance of trucks. 1946. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

How To Make 16 Anti-Aircraft Guns In The Time It Used To Take to Make 2 -- In a war plant in the Midwestern section of the United States, 20 mm. anti-aircraft barrels are reamed by this machine in the same time it used to take to ream two. The method was discovered by a small U. S. shop turning out shotguns. November 02, 1942. (Photo by Interphoto News Pictures, Inc.).

Ramona Estrada cleans the train garage of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, San Bernardino, California, USA

Cumming the melt under water wheel drive mumbling hammer.

Anefo photo collection. Build Velsertunnel. March 22, 1957

Armorship boosts.Sweden (depicted - name)

Image of the demonstration of automatic couplings for freight wagons on the goods yard in Utrecht.

Anefo photo collection. The peace clock in the bell foundry of Mr Fritsen in Aarle-Rixtel intended for the H. Hartbasiliek van Koekelberg in Brussels is almost ready: the last work on the clock. 10 June 1964. Aarle-Rixtel, Brussels, Noord-Brabant

The Employment of Women in Britain, 1914-1918

Casting of light metal at AB W. Dan Bergman's factories next to Södertälje, 1947

The rails in Hallsberg

The Empire State building has 6,4000 windows, and the cleaning of them keeps a staff of 7 men busy every working day. This picture, taken from a set-back on the 81st floor, shows Richard Hart, foreman of the 7-man team, cleaning a window below on the 80th floor. Hart, born in the State of Maine, but a resident of Staten Island, one of New York's five boroughs, has been a window cleaner for some 30 years, and has cleaned the Empire State's windows since it was opened in 1931. Heights that would m

Kentucky Governor Inspects Wreckage of Riot-Torn "pen" Governor A.B. (Happy) Chandler of Kentucky, Inspecting the twisted wreckage of cell Furnishings in the Kentucky statePenitentiary when flood waters rose to a dangerous height here, the prisoners rioted and were only quelled by the state national guard. The prisoners were moved out to drier ground and the prison,, a mass of debris, was evacuated. September 19, 1943. (Photo by International News Photo)

Växjö District, Reportage

China Clay Is Second Biggest Export -- Sacks of China clay are loaded into ships at Par Harbour. Several convenient ports serve the clay pits. October 31, 1949. (Photo by Pictorial Press).

Rugles, Eure. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Opening of a rubber factory in Getash. A Javanese worker at a machine. December 4, 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Hagfors use. Goot rolling ring, 1930.

Removal of locomotives.

Light image regarding the manufacture of aluminum and light metal at the end of the 1920s. Man in workshop.

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

ASEA in Västerås about 1900.

Work on the undercarriage of carriage.

Huddersfield Cloth Mill- the work of C and J Hirst and Sons Ltd., Sunnybank, Longwood, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, UK, 1943 Two mill workers operate the large cutting machine at C and J Hirst and Sons Ltd. in Huddersfield. This machine has rotary blades which run at great speed to cut and level the nap (loose surface) of the cloth.

Image of the manufacture of a part for the Nieuwe Moerdijk Bridge at Werkspoor in Utrecht.

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

Vintage Photograph. Marine Diesel Engine in a modern fishing trawler at Stonington Connecticut.

Poll photo collection. Reporting Dutch Railways. Hand of a machinist operating the machinery of a steam locomotive. 1932. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Poll photo collection. Quarries - Belgium. Machine to break and sort stones. 1 June 1945. Belgium

Vintage photograph. foreground - workmen pours molten iron into cylinder block molds. Background - Mono rail carrier pours molten iron into a smaller ladle which will then be transported to the pouring line pictured

Placeer Axel Nordström, June 1954. Ställare Axel Nordström, juni 1954.

Location at work.

SAAR Story - Iron & Steel Industry Reaches Postwar High. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Image of work with a cutting burner on one of the beams for the new Moerdijk bridge at Werkspoor in Utrecht.

Industry during the First World War A female worker carding hemp in a British factory during the First World War.

Location at work.

Australian Petroleum Refinery Limited. BP (Kwinana) Proprietary Limited.Comparatively large quantities of steam are necessary for process requirements and these needs are met by a battery of water tube boilers in the steam generating plant. Each of the five boilers has a capacity of75,000 lb. of steam an hour at a pressure of 200 lb. per square inch. Mr. J. Sinclair, a boiler assistant, is adjusting one of the burners. March 01, 1955.

Work environment in steam locomotive. Elders at work.

Anefo photo collection. Leather and textile manufacturer. 1945

Workshop work.

Cutting sheet steel to size, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1938. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

The production of steel products, as here at the Neunkirch ironworks in 1969, already seemed outdated at the time, is now a museum, Germany, Europe

Anefo photo collection. Rice pellars work on the Zaan region again. August 13, 1948. Noord-Holland, Zaanstreek

Work in a locomotive workshop.

Mechanics at the State Fire Service in Karsk Pyrzycki at the "Ursus" tractor No. 00001; from a series of photographs to the article of Helena Adamczewska "Start of tractor No. 00001" about the first "Ursus" tractor produced after the war, "Świat" 1954, No. 18, pp. 8-9; Prażuch, Wiesław (1925-1992); 1954 (1954-00-00-1954-00-00);

Vintage photograph. Workman hooking a manhole cover for a perfect closing pull on the hot deck of a battery of Coke ovens

Railway engineering students, Nairobi. A publicity photograph from the East African Railways and Harbours Association (EAR&H) showing African students and a European instructor at work in the mechanical engineering workshops at Nairobi. Nairobi, Kenya, circa 1960. Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya, Eastern Africa, Africa.

Cooperative Laitiere Centrale de Paris. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Image of the supply of the kitchen of the Scandinavia on purpose at the N.S. station Hoek van Holland.

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

Vintage photograph. Man steam spraying oily machine parts

Anefo photo collection. The work in the "De Gooyer" mill at the Funenkade in Amsterdam. February 4, 1946. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Örebro Central Workshop.

Vintage photograph. Unloading crated motor from large Santa Fe truck with forklift

Vintage photograph. Rock dusting at the Willow Grove mine of the Hanna Coal co

Worker at Rolling Machine, Washington Tinplate Company, Washington, Pennsylvania, USA, Jack Delano, U.S. Farm Security Administration, U.S. Office of War Information Photograph Collection, January 1941

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