Historical Manufacturing Processes

Black and white images from historical factories illustrating metalworking, stamping, and welding practices in the 20th century.

Side profile of a welder welding a container

Österby mill in 1922.

Indoor building of intermediate. .

Eddystone, Pennsylvania - Railroad parts. Baldwin Locomotive Works. Blacksmith forging and hammering tools, March 1937, Lewis Hine, 1874 - 1940, was an American photographer, who used his camera as a tool for social reform. US,USA

Hebron. Glass blowing, Dec. 9,1945, West Bank, Hebron

A780229 U7AY TOPMAST TDR INSTALLATION MCKOWN(Project Engineer) FEB 27 78EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 2/27/1978 EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; SHAFTS; TDR INSTALLATION; TEST SITES; TOPMAST; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; WEAPONS RELATED; TDR INSTALLATION historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

Wilbur Wright works in the bicycle shop at Dayton, Ohio in 1897. The Wright Brothers rented, sold, and manufactured bicycles. During their peak years, between 1896 and 1900, the Wrights manufactured about 300 bicycles. The Wright Brothers incorporated bicycle technology and materials into their gliders and airplanes (BSLOC_2018_2_146)

Arab factories & general improvements in Nablus, Match factory Making match boxes by machinery. 1940, West Bank, Nablus, Middle East, Palestine

Man Constructing Wood Framing. Original Title: Miscellaneous. 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Negative. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Deadline of infrastructure facilities, companies and factories on the Russian war showplatz.

Workers removing synthetic rubber from rolling mills, B.F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio, USA, Alfred T. Palmer, U.S. Office of War Information/U.S. Farm Security Administration, 1941

A young woman beekeeper working

Rome, Italy may 1965: Vintage black and white photo of a sailor climbing a metal ladder on a ship, evoking nostalgia for the 1960s maritime era

Construction workers at work

Signal-Werkstätte Station Udine, forge 23.7.18.

Rome Italy may 1951 A sailor in his uniform climbs up the ladder on the side of a ship capturing the adventure and romance of seafaring life in the 1950s

Synthetic rubber coming off the rolling mill in which the crumbs of rubber are squeezed dry of excess water and pressed together into a blanket for further processing into rubber products. After 1920, high natural rubber prices spurred the development of synthetic rubber.

Woman Washing Clothes outside of Shack Along River, West Virginia, USA, Marion Post Wolcott for Farm Security Administration, September 1938

Drive station of the gravel stitching machine in flitsch, 2 phases engine 6 P.S. With control panel. Recorded on 22.V.16. .

Säters YxFabrik, Production image.The old manufacturing method, i.e. They lost axes with potted egg steel.

AFILADOR. Location: EXTERIOR. SEO DE URGEL. Lerida. SPAIN.

Welder Making Boilers for Ship, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA, Alfred T. Palmer for Office of War Information, June 1942

Escloper, siglo XX. Museu Català de les Arts i Tradicions Populars.

Worker working on Fifty-Foot Steel Ramp Boat, Higgins Industries, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, Howard R. Hollem for Office of War Information, July 1942

CENTRAL TERMICA CRISTOBAL COLON - MIRILLA DEL HORNO - FOTO AÑOS 60. Location: CENTRAL TERMICA CRISTOBAL COLON. Huelva. SPANIEN.

Timber Stand Improvement - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

A830651 UE16B HEGF JERRY CUDERMAN (Project Engineer) APR 26 83EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 4/26/1983 CUDERMAN, JERRY; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; HEGF; HIGH ENERGY GAS FRAC; INSTRUMENTATION; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; PROSTHESIS; TEST SITES; TOOL BOXES; TOOL CHESTS; TUNNELS; TUNNELS BY USAGE; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

Borlänge Lokstation, interior.

Los Angeles, California: c. 1928 A worker welding maganese steel on railroad tracks at night while trains are idle.

Coal Breaker Boy Eating Lunch, Woodward Coal Mines, Kingston, Pennsylvania, USA, circa 1890

Poll photo collection. Manufacture of spectacle glasses. Grinding glasses. 1931

K.U.K.Mobiles Schanzeugdepot 7.Tarbad Villach, joinery. .

Workers in the 1940s. Interior of a mechanical workshop for musical instruments, where a man is pouring tin into a brass horn. Sweden 1941 Kristoffersson ref 225-2

Car repair center in the Felde, Sattlerei 29.7.18. .

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina A salt shop , 1912 - Balkans, Italy - Jean Brunhes and Auguste Léon - (October 13 - 27) (French - Sarajevo , Bosnie-Herzégovine Une boutique de sel). Shop , store, market , fair, food, window , display, Economic activity, daily life, Bosnia, Sarajevo, a salt shop

Tel Aviv industries. 1925, Israel

British factory production during World War II. Dated 1940

Image 8 of Log loading and Tardif sawmill, Fort Kent, Maine | Library of Congress

undefined. 1913 - 1921. NARA's Pacific Alaska Region (Seattle, WA). Negative. Department of Commerce. Bureau of Fisheries. Division of Alaska Fisheries. 1913-7/1/1939. Pribilof Islands Glass Plate Negatives

Fats of drive strap skins

Workers in the 1940s. Interior of a mechanical workshop for musical instruments, where a man is hammering a piece of sheet metal into the shape of a brass horn. Sweden 1941 Kristoffersson ref 225-5

Three people working on a boat , Boats, Laborers. Edmund L. Mitchell Collection

Nora Tube Factory. Test burning apparatus, 1935.

1950s 1960s MAN LOCAL VILLAGE BLACKSMITH WORKING AS FARRIER SHAPING A HORSESHOE WITH HAMMER ON ANVIL IN FORGE VIRGINIA USA

Working in the coal mine (EV007853_H)

Equipment. 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Negative. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Production image.The old manufacturing method, i.e. They lost axes with potted egg steel.

Women's Institute, Jerusalem. One of the weaving rooms, women working on looms ca. between 1934 and 1939.

Equipment. 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Negative. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Coal Miner Smoking Cigarette while Waiting for Ride Home after Work, Capels, West Virginia, USA, Marion Post Wolcott for Farm Security Administration, September 1938

Disk benches on the seraphimer laser. Made at Avesta ironworks (Avesta Jernverk).

Factory saints. Olot, Barcelona.

Tracking, on the Tranås - Gripenberg route.

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. filter tubes, envelop, nylon cloth, rolling up, workers, between flapping, Groningen. July 1967. Balkbrug, Groningen, Between

Civilian workers of the Mercur Contracting Company level off recently poured cement while constructing platforms to be used for waste container positioning at the Allied Rapid Reaction Command Headquarters. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR Base: Sarajevo Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)

Honey harvest Ouessant island Bretagne

Slag tapping in blast furnace.

Production image.The old manufacturing method, i.e. They lost axes with potted egg steel.

Egypt, Cairo, Worker In Glass Factory

Bucket Man at Tennessee Valley Authority's new Douglas Dam, French Broad River, Sevier County, Tennessee, USA, Alfred T. Palmer for Office of War Information, June 1942

Portuguese dory fisherman rowing out to his boat at 4 30 in the morning for the fishing banks off Cape Cod. 1942. LC-USW38-002077-C

Distribution Department, Cochituate Aqueduct, Newton, Mass., May 6, 1909 , waterworks, aqueducts, water tunnels

Alpargatera en Todolella. Provincia de Castellón. Años 70.

Street Photography, Paris, France, 1977, Workers.

A87774 U12G LOS MODEL INSTALLATION JIM TALBUTT (PROJECT ENGINEER) JUNE 9 87 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 6/9/1987 EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; HARD HATS; HARD-HATS; INSTALLATIONS; INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; LOS MODELS; LOS MODELS INSTALLATION; MALE; MALES; MAN; MAN (ADD MALE MODIFIER); NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; ROCKS; ROCKS & MINERALS (MISC); ROCKS (MISCELLANEOUS); TEST SITES; UGT; UNDERGROUND; UNDERGROUND TESTING; U12G LOS MODELS INSTALLATION historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

A820255 U12G LOS MODELS ASSEMBLY CARL SMITH (PROJECT ENGINEER) JAN 19 82 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 1/19/1982 EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; HARD HATS; HARD-HATS; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; LOS MODELS ASSEMBLY; MALE; MEN (ADD MALE MODIFIER); NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; SMITH, CARL W; SPHERES; TEST SITES; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; WIRE & CABLES; WORKERS, CONSTRUCTION; WORKING historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

Italy, Piedmont, Cortemilia, farmers packing hazelnuts

ALFARERO TRABAJANDO EN SU TORNO. Location: ALFARERIA. Coca. SEGOVIA. SPAIN.

Ceramics factory, ceramica a san giovanni alla vena, vicopisano, Tuscany, italy 1958.

Sudan. Malakal. Shiluki of the refuelling gang. Three quarter figure. 1936, Sudan, Malakāl

Portrait of excavator operator in old uniform.

Cigar maker in a factory Panama

Sanitation Workers, Washington, D.C., USA, photograph by Marion S. Trikosko, May 1971

A770904 U7AP CREWLINE DOWNHOLE OPERATIONS JOHN BROUILLARD (PROJECT ENGINEER) MAY 11 77 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 5/11/1977 BROUILLARD, JOHN; CABLES (NON ELECTRIC COMPANY); CREWLINE; CREWLINE TEST; DOWNHOLE OPERATION; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; MALE; MEN (ADD MALE MODIFIER); NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; SLIFER CABLES; TAPE MEASURES; TEST SITES; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; WIRE & CABLES; CREWLINE-DOWNHOLE OPERATIONS historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

A farmer drawing water from a well, made in Japan, dating from 1900 to 1940. The image is a hand-colored collotype with dimensions of 14 x 9 cm

Women War Workers in Britain, 1944 Miss Norris wearing safety spectacles while welding the side seams of drum containers. The containers were used to store the products of a chemical factory run by the Ministry of Supply.

CSSR. Prague. Glassblower. ca. 1979-80

Dairy industry, parmigiano reggiano production, 70's

Anefo photo collection. New farms in Ens (Noordoostpolder), Zeeland farmer's hanging was on. 11 May 1950. Ens, Noordoostpolder

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