Factory Collection (#57)

Cotton Workshop 18th C
Men at work in a cotton factory in 18th century France. Date: Circa 1760

Dresden China Bells
Bells being manufactured in Dresden, Germany, to build a carillon (a musical instrument made of bells which play in a chromatic sequence) which will play in a Berlin park. Date: 24 January 1930

Testing Seed Potatoes
A man and woman testing seed potatoes, Germany. Date: early 1930s

Cultivating Silkworms
Two men at work cultivating silkworms in 18th century France. Date: Circa 1760

Java Textiles Factory
Young girls working in a textiles factory, Java, Dutch East Indies, guarded by foremen. Date: 1930s

Water Pollution
Water pollution from factory waste, River Mersey, Warrington, Cheshire, England. Date: 1960s

Abbeydale Factory
The original stone buildings of the Abbeydale factory, Derbyshire, England. Date: late 1960s

British BE 12 biplane on an airfield, WW1
A British Royal Aircraft Factory BE 12 single-seater biplane on an airfield, used by the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. It had a 150hp RAF 4a engine. Date: 1915-1918

Goodyear Blimp Landing Field - Chicago, USA Date: 1933

Argentina - Berisso. Workers leaving the Swift refrigeration faciity or the preservation of chilled beef. Date: circa 1930s

German aircraft factory, WW1
An aircraft factory in Germany during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

American soldiers at Citroen Munitions, France, WW1
American soldiers lunching at Citroen Munitions in France during the First World War. Date: August 1918

Bottling Benedictine at Fecamp, France
Bottling Benedictine herbal liqueur at Fecamp, Normandy, France. The Salle d Etiquetage ( The Labelling Room ). Date: circa 1910s

War damage, Haidar Pacha, Constantinople, WW1
Factories and a munitions train burnt out at Haidar Pacha, the western terminus of the Anatolian Railway, Constantinople, Turkey, during the First World War. Date: 1917

Workers Reply to General Sir Douglas Haig, WW1
Workers Reply to General Sir Douglas Haig -- the wording of a Resolution passed at the Trade Union Conference at Caxton Hall on 18 July 1916

Italian aircraft workshop
An Italian aircraft workshop, probably during the First World War, with the flags of Italy and the USA visible above. Date: circa 1915-1918

Sennhutte - Switzerland - A Cheese Factory Date: circa 1910s

The Queen visits a Birmingham factory
The Queen takes a closer look at the work in progress at one of the benches of the John Lucas factory in Birmingham. Date: 1955

George V visiting munitions factory in Hull
King George V in army uniform, visiting a munitions factory in Hull during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Westinghouse Railway Works, Manchester
Machine shop aisle Westinghouse Train Works, Manchester, Lancashire, England. circa 1906

Processing sugar cane, 1877
Grinding sugar cane in Cuba. Date: 1877

Manufacture of war medals, Royal Mint
Manufacture of General Service cupro-nickel war medals at the Royal Mint, when output was increased to half a million per week. circa 1940s

De Mornays patent sugar-mill, Brazil, 1854
The interior of a mill house showing de Mornays patent sugar-mill on the Carauna Estate, in Pernambuco, Brazil. Date: 1854

Guinness Brewery, Dublin - Scald Bank
Unloading empty casks at the Guinness Brewery, Dublin - Scald Bank. Date: 1920

Mark VIII Liberty tank assembly, USA, WW1
The Anglo-American Mark VIII Liberty tank being manufactured at the Parish & Bingham works in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, during the First World War. Date: January 1918

Ordnance at Salt River Works, South Africa, WW1
Interior of a workshop at the Salt River Works, near Cape Town, South Africa, where 4.7 inch (120 mm calibre) long-range guns and their carriages were built and assembled during the First World War

Distilling Benedictine at Fecamp, France
Distilling Benedictine herbal liqueur at Fecamp, Normandy, France. This card is entitled Distillation in the Laboratory ! Date: circa 1910s

Butcher factory
Butchers factory, Landskrona, Sweden, 1967. Date: 1967

Orizaba - Mexico - The Cuauhtemoc Moctezuma Brewery (Cerveceria Cuauhtemoc Moctezuma) Date: circa 1910s

Praya East Hong Kong and Jardines Sugar Factories Date: 1908

La Madeleine, Belgium - Rue Pasteur Date: circa 1903

Making Tiles 18th C
A French tilery from the 18th century with the kiln and the tiles outside for drying. Date: Circa 1760

Making Handbags
Men and women working together in a factory, making handbags with sewing machines. Date: early 1930s

Needlemakers 18th France
Seven workers making needles in a workshop in 18th century France. Date: Circa 1760

Making Starch 18th Franc
Starch manufacturers at various stages of the production in 18th century France. Date: Circa 1760

Guns Factory 18th C
Machines to make 18th century guns. Date: Circa 1760

Making Brushes 1930S
These women are fixing bristles into ivory hairbrush handles. Date: February 1933

Moulding Tiles 18th C
Two men at work in a French tilery from the 18th century. The man on the left is moulding tiles from clay. Date: Circa 1760

Bournville Houses 1905
Streets and houses at Bournville, a suburb of Birmingham, West Midlands, England, originally designed for workers in Cadburys chocolate factory. Date: 1905

Paris Factory Girls 1894
Paris factory women during their lunch break Date: 1895

Packing Beer Bottles
Women packing bottles of beer in an East London brewery. Date: 1965

Sewing with Machines
Clothes produced on sewing machines. Date: 1863

SIEMENS FACTORY / 1930 S
Siemens town factory unit in Berlin, founded in 1847 by Werner von Siemens, inventor of the pointer telegraph, who opened the factory to produce it Date: mid 1930 s

Murphys Radio Factory
Workers leave Murphys Radio Factory on foot and by bicycle. Date: 1959

View of Derby from across the River Derwent
A view of Derby from across the River Derwent, showing a mixture of church towers and spires, and factory chimneys. Date: circa 1910

Furniture Factory / 1964
A young man working in a furniture factory, High Wycombe. Date: 1964

Stewarts & Lloyd Factory
An old man and children in a back garden, washing hanging on the line, and the smoking factory chimneys of Stewarts and Lloyds in the background. Date: 1950s

Women in Biscuit Factory
Women working in a biscuit factory on the outskirts of London. Date: 1971

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