Manufacturing Collection

Staffordshire Potteries
Factories in the Staffordshire potteries, 2nd March 1946. Original publication : Picture Post - 3088 - Pottery : A Working Partys Problem - pub

Map of Yellowstone National Park, USA

Binocular Testing
A line of girls tests each pair of binoculars made for the Services before it leaves the factory

Steel Furnace
16th August 1952: Liquid metal spraying out of the furnace at Thomas and Baldwins steel works in Ebbw Vale, Wales. Original Publication: Picture Post - 6005 - Steel Town - pub

Humour rain umbrella St. Swithin 19th century cartoon
This is a cartoon etching by the well-known Victorian social caricaturist / cartoonist George Cruikshank (1792 - 1878), dated November 1st, 1829

A typical mosaic at The Alhambra- Granada-Spain
Brightly colored mosaics adorn the walls and floors of the Alhambra of Granada in Spain

Stream Train built in, Crewe Locomotive Works, 1892
Vintage engraving of a Stream Train built at the London and North Western Locomotive Works, at Crewe, 1892, 19th Century

Romanian traditional ceramic plates Horezu area, Romania
Horezu ceramics is a unique type of Romanian pottery that is traditionally produced by hand around the town of Horezu in northern Oltenia close to the famous Horezu Monastery

Mass Production
Full-length image of auto workers lowering the body of a Model T onto its chassis on an assembly line ramp outdoors at the Ford Motor Company, Highland Park, Michigan

Rectification Device
Antique illustration of a DesireSavalles device for rectifying alcohol

Mule Spinning
1st January 1909: A young boy mule spinning at Joness Cotton Mill, Manchester. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Steel Foundry
19th January 1978: The steel foundry at Corby. (Photo by Colin Davey/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Testing Aircraft
14th October 1943: A Royal Airforce Mosquito being tested at the de Havilland factory. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Silk Mill
Thomas Lombes silk mill in Derby, circa 1720. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Austin Assembly
circa 1920: Cars on the assembly line at an Austin Six factory. (Photo by Edward Gooch/Edward Gooch/Getty Images)

Big Gun
circa 1885: The breech block of a large gun being gauged and fitted at Woolwich Arsenal. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Carl Zeiss
(Original Caption) Carl Zeiss (1816-1888), German manufacturer of optical instruments. Undated photograph. BPA2# 5738

Engr;Furnaces Of Steel Tubeworks;Cutaway
(Original Caption) The manufacture of steel tubing. Blast furnaces of the National Tubeworks Co. McKeesport, PA. Engraving, 1897

Milliners Working in Silk Hat Factory
(Original Caption) Factory for silk hats. All work done manually by women. France ca. 1900. BPA2# 2795

Alfred Nobel
(Original Caption) Alfred Nobel (1833-1896), Swedish manufacturer and inventor. Established fund of $9, 200, 000 for Nobel Prize (since 1901)

Interior Of Metzger Automobile Factory
(Original Caption) Interior of the Metzger automobile factory. Photograph, ca. 1910

Bell Manufacturing
Pouring the bell metal. A large bell can be cast in the mould in ten minutes

Worker Testing Penicillin Cultures
(Original Caption) Penicillin manufacturer at Charles Pfizer factory testing cultures. Undated photograph

Interior of a silk stocking factory
(Original Caption) Interior of a silk stocking factory. Undated photograph from the Gendreau collection

Women Manufacturing American Flags
(Original Caption) Manufacturing U.S. flags. Undated photograph. BPA2# 4864

Interior View Of Steel Plant
(Original Caption) Interior view of a steel manufacuring plant. Photo shows the hoist used for transporting molten metals to and from the furnaces. Undated photograph

Overhead Of Steel Manufacturing Plant
(Original Caption) General view of the United States Steel Corporation's Fairless Works on the Delaware River near Morrisville, Pennsylvania. Undated photograph

Red Cross Worker With Influenza Mask
(Original Caption) Influenza epidemic of 1917. At a Red Cross work room, this young lady has just completed an influenza mask. Women in the background are making these masks. Photograph

Genview Of Working Cash Registers
(Original Caption) Essen, Germany-Assembling cash registers in the Krupp plants. The photograph shows a general view of a large manufacturing room filled with tables

Gen View Of Krupp Steel Mill On Water
(Original Caption) Rheinhausen, Germany- Views of Rheinhausen Steel Mill, Europe's largest composite steel mill, comparable in size to Bethlehem steel

Power Plant with Two Smokestacks
(Photo by Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

Machine For The Making Of Buttons
(Original Caption) Machine for the making of buttons. Lithograph by Oertel, ca. 1830

Engraving of Mule Spinning in the Cotton Industry
Mule spinning in the cotton industry. Engraving 1835

George Eastman Seated In Library
(Original Caption) Portrait of George Eastman reading in the library of Eastman House

George Eastman As A Young Man
(Original Caption) Portrait of George Eastman (1854-1932), as a young man. At thirteen, Eastman went to work as a messenger boy in an insurance office for $3 a week

Billiard Factory Exterior
(Original Caption) Undated engraving showing the "PHELAN & COLLENDER BILLIARD TABLE MANUFACTORY." Eterior

Wooden Statue In Front Of Cigar Shop
(Original Caption) Wooden statue of a Native American woman holding up a pack of cigars, outside the show window of a New York cigar manufacturer. Photograph circa 1895

The Manufacture Of Book Paper
(Original Caption) Papermaking: The manufacture of book paper in a Massachusetts factory. The Engines. Woodcut, 1880

Engraving of Men Dyeing Leather Hides in Morocco by A. Jahandier
Tanning. Mfg. of Morocco leather: Dyeing of the hides. Wood engraving around 1850

Workers Pose In 1906 Westclox Factory
(Original Caption) La Salle, Illinois- In 1889, a group of watchmakers organized what is today the Westclox Division of General Time Corp. in La Salle, Ill

Ford Motor Company Assembly Line
(Original Caption) 1913-Highland Park, Michigan- History was made as the flywheel magneto, first manufactured part to be built on a moving assembly line

Factory Workers Work On Aircraft Wing
(Original Caption) 1917-Interior of aviation factory; workers assemble an aircraft wing

Large Havana Cigar
One of the employees with a large Havana Cigar

Workmen in Bement-Miles Machining Company
(Original Caption) 11/30/1920-Philadelphia, PA- Bement-Miles Pond Company, machine manufacturer. Depicted in this photo is a workmen operating a large piece of machinery

Overview Of Steel Mill W/Railroad
(Original Caption) 4/1/21-Germany- Foundation of Krupp strength is this stell mill, largest in Europe. By decree, it must be sold by 1958. But Krupp is seeking a reversal of this order

Crankshaft Grinding Department at Ford Motor Company
(Original Caption) 4/7/1924-Highland Park, Michigan- Crankshaft grinding department in the Ford plant at Highland Park

James Couzens and Henry Ford
(Original Caption) 2/10/1927-Washington, DC: While passing through Washington, DC, Henry Ford, famous automobile manufacturer

Milk Bottle Manufacturing
(Original Caption) 8/23/31-Los Angeles, CA- There are all kinds of detectives in the world, the kind who track criminals, the correspondence school typ, etc

Inside A Large Brewery/Men Clean Tanks
(Original Caption) 7/30/1932-New York, NY: The International News Photo Cameraman takes you behind the scenes of a great beer brewing plant, that owned by Colonel Jacob Ruppert

Complicated Rain-Collecting Apparatus in Laboratory
This complicated apparatus is used in the manufacture of heavy water, which differs from ordinary rain water in that it contains twice the amount of hydrogen by weight

Vp Of Westinghouse Inspects A Punch Pres
(Original Caption) 1934-Mansfield, OH: C. E

Woman Operates "Rabbit Golf Ball" Machine
(Original Caption) 1934-Pinehurst, NC- This is how the jump is put into the "rabbit ball" which has just made its entry into golf

William Boeing testifiying before the Senate Air Mail Committee

Milton S. Hershey
(Original Caption) 04/13/1937. Milton S. Hershey, Sr.. American industrialist. Worked as confectioner, candy manufacturer; established (1903) Hershey Chocolate Co.; built town of Hershey, PA

How Bicycles are Manufactured
There are 500 seperate operations in the making of a bicycle

William E. Boeing and T. Horning at Santa Anita
(Original Caption) 1938- Los Angeles, CA- W.E. Boeing of Seattle, airplane manfacturer, and his trainer, T. Horning, are photographed in the paddock of Santa Anita race track

Worker Manufacturing Flag
(Original Caption) 1/21/38: It's always forty eight. This worker is laying out the stars on their blue field. No, she never makes a mistake. There are always forty-eight - no more, no less

Woman Making Airplane Engine Parts
(Original Caption) Buffalo, New York-Woman employee shown making parts for an airplane engine on a horizontal milling machine in a Curtiss-Wright plant. Ca. 1939-1948

General View Of German Iron/Steel Works
(Original Caption) 11/7/1939-Germany- View of the Roechlingschen iron and steel works near Voelklingen in the Saar District of Germany

Spools of Thread-Advancers
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Workers at a Tire Manufacturing Plant
(Original Caption) Scene at a tire manufacturing plant. Undated photograph (from the Gendreau Collection)

Rows of Radio Tubes
(Original Caption) Rows of radio tubes on test racks. Undated photograph

Louis Renault And Son Jean
(Original Caption) 6/11/1940- Washington, DC: French industrialist and son at White House

Clothing Factory Making Army Coats
(Original Caption) 6/27/1940-New York, NY: Not all angles of preparedness delt with guns, tanks and planes

Woman On Table Putting Shroud On Parachu
(Original Caption) 9/1/1942-New England: An erstwhile dancer in a New York nightclub, Bonnie Bonness, now helps make nylon parachutes

Man Standing by Rubber Tree
A man stands alongside a rubber tree which has small cups attached to it to catch the oozing sap. This is the old and tedious way of rubber production

Bottles Of Penicillin Culture
(Original Caption) 1/30/1944- View of the third and final phase in the manufacture of penicillin. At this stage, the process leaves a clear penicillin broth, which is extracted with organic solvents

Workman Venting Condenser at Steel Plant
(Original Caption) 1/16/1945-Donora, PA- View of a zinc furnace at the Donora works of the American Steel and Wire Co. a subsidiary of U.S. Steel Corp

Gasoline Plant at Night
(Original Caption) 1/17/1945-San Francisco, California- As brilliantly lit as an amusement park, the new $20, 000, 000

Underground Plant Building German V-2 Rockets
German long range V-2 rocket in a jig in the largest underground assembly plant in the world, which was captured by U.S. 1st Army Troops

Atomic Bomb Production Area
This factory, run by the Manhattan Project, produced atomic bombs used against Japan during World War II. | Location: Clinton Engineer Works, Tennessee, USA

Henry Ford in His First Car
(Original Caption) 1946. Henry Ford takes his first car from Bagley Avenue Shop in Dearborn, Michigan

Patricia Bennett at Camera Plant
(Original Caption) A scarcity since Pearl Harbor, cameras will soon be available. Shown here are Haneel Tri-Vision camera, under production at a Los Angeles plant

Greek Men Making Baskets
Basketmakers sell their baskets for 90 cents. They make around 1, 000 per day, and earn more than they did before the war

Howard Hughes Seated Reading Papers
(Original Caption) 8/11/1947-Washington, D.C.: Plane builder Howard Hughes is shown here seated alone in the normally jam-packed Senated caucus room

Man Working at Steel Rod Machine
(Original Caption) 3/2/48-Joliet, Illinois- Globe-girdling wind-up of a red hot rod in the Joliet, IL, plant of U.S. Steel's American Steel and Wire Co

Wheel Chute
An usual type of chute delivers wheels to the chassis line for mounting on a car at Atlanta's new Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac assembly plant

Infrared Bath
One of the newest methods of drying successive lacquer coats on a car is by infra-red lights, as shown above in the paint department of the new General Motors assembly plant at Atlanta, AC

Water Bath Test
Every car produced at Atlanta's new General Motors plant must pass the rigid water bath test pictured above to assure that there are no leaks

French Sceintist Paul Heroult
(Original Caption) Paul Heroult (1863-1914), French scientist. Accidentally discovered that aluminum could be reduced by electrolysis of aluminum mixed with cryolite

1876 Engraving of Steel Manufacturing
(Original Caption) Bessemer Steel Manufacture: Fining steel in the converters (above) and casting molten ingots (below). Colored engraving, 1876

Young Henry Ford
(Original Caption) 1888-Detroit, MI: This photo of Henry ford was made in 1888. It was on April 11th of that year that he married Clara Bryant, Daughter of a neighboring farmer

Henry Ford With Son Edsel
(Original Caption) 1928-Henry Ford Full length pose with son, Edsel, standing in front of a new model Ford

George Westinghouse
(Original Caption) George Westinghouse (1846-1914), founder of the industries that bear his name, American inventor and manufacturer. Undated photograph

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