Industry Collection (page 94)

England / Falmouth 1950S
Steam tugs at Custom House Quay, Falmouth, Cornwall, England. Date: 1950s

Making Clay Pots
A man moulds vast clay pots, which will later be used for melting glass into. Date: 1930s

Cutting Glass Bowl
A craftsman cutting the facets of a glass bowl at a British glass factory Date: 1933

Glassmaking - Cutting
Three men working in the glass industry, cutting a block of glass Date: 1933

GLASS BOWL
A man finishes off a glass bowl Date: 1933

Felling Trees
Two men tackle a difficult tree that is leaning over. Their aim is to get the saw as close to the base as possible Date: 1930s

Advert for A. Attwood & Co. lifts and hoists 1889
Patentees and manufactures of self-sustaining lifts and hoists. 1889

An Iron Foundry
The interior of one of the principal iron foundries in Colebrookdale, Shropshire Date: 1827

Turner Working a Lathe
A turner using a treadle- operated turning-lathe to carve a piece of wood Date: 1827

A Wheelwright
A wheelwright hammering on red-hot pieces of iron to form the tyre of a wheel Date: 1827

A Wire-Drawer
A wire drawer reducing rods and threads of wire to smaller sizes for use in manufacture Date: 1827

Wool-Comber
A wool comber teasing out a bundle of clean wool on a comb which can then be spun Date: 1827

Natural Gas Springs / USA
Tapping natural gas springs at Mammoth Karg Well, Findlay, Ohio. Date: 1886

Krupps Factory / 1915
Manufacturing armour plate at Krupps factory. Date: 1915

Pittsburgh / Industry 1875
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: an industrial landscape Date: 1875

Trevithicks Waterwheel
Richard Trevithick seniors water wheel at Cooks Kitchen mine, Cornwall 1778

Stephenson Beam Engine
Beam engine designed by George Stephenson, started at the Stephenson works in 1823 Date: 1823

Spain / Malaga / Lemons
Malaga: the lemon harvest. The villagers sort and pack the fruit that has been picked. Date: 1912

Paper Printing Machine
A machine for printing the lines on paper for accountants ledgers. Date: mid 19th century

Hocquarts Escalator
Hocquarts escalator system Date: 1906

Escalator in Action
An escalator in action and a detail of its mechanism as seen in New York Date: 1893

Esparto Baskets / Tunisia
Baskets being made from Esparto grass in Tunisia. Date: 1912

Hand-Painted Ceramics
A woman hand-painting ceramics in her studio, surrounded by the various beautiful plates, teapots, etc. she has skillfully decorated. Date: early 1930s

Weaving in Java Date: 1882

Mining Area / Germany
A mining area in Germany. Date: 1909

Tour of Kent Hop Fields
Mr Neame of Faversham conducts some of the leading members of the brewing industry around Kents finest hop-fields. The tour was organised by the Institute of Brewing. Date: 12 September 1932

CARPENTER / 1887
A carpenter planes a piece of wood. Date: 1887

Rubber Plantation / Borneo
A view of a rubber plantation - rows and rows of trees - in North Borneo. Date: 1913

Various Precious Stones
1. RUBY 2. EMERALD 3. GARNET 4. LAPIS LAZULI 5. TURQUOISE 6. DIAMOND 7&8. GOLD 9. SILVER 10. TOPAZ 11. SAPPHIRE 12. AMETHYST 13. OPAL 14. AGATE. Date: circa 1870

Perfume Manufacture / 1856
Various processes at the Mailly perfume factory, Neuilly, France. Date: 1862

Etruria / Wedgwood
Etruria, the village near Stoke-on-Trent built by Josiah Wedgwood to be the centre of his ceramics production. Date: Circa 1870 s

Charcoal / New Forest
A charcoal burners hut at Marksham, in the New Forest, Hampshire. Date: 1904

Uckingen Ironworks / 1899
Change of shift at Uckingen Ironworks, Germany. Date: 1899

Carpetmaking, Tunis
A Tunisian woman at her carpet-loom Date: 1906

Algerian Spinner
An Algerian housewife spins at the doorway of her home Date: 1906

Registering Unemployed
Registering the unemployed at Chelsea, London, 1887. Date: 1887

London Messenger Boy
A London messenger boy Date: 1908

Strikers Stop Train
The wives & children of strikers at the Cummings Nail Mills in Chicago stop a train as a protest. Date: 1886

Pit Brow Girls
Pit brow women Date: circa 1905

Rolling Armour Plate
GERMANY Rolling out armour plate at Krupp, Essen Date: 1911

Rolling Metal for Ships
GERMANY Rolling out metal for battleships at Friedrich Krupp, Essen Date: 1900

Mining for Tin / Cornwall
The tin mine at Camborne, Cornwall. Tin is found in the Cornish mines in the form of veins of cassiterite Date: nineteenth century

Women in Glass Factory
Two women working in a glass factory. They are mixing something with a pestle in a mortar; a Bunsen burner with a large flame sits on the work surface. Date: circa 1930

Iron Processing / 1556
A depiction of the various stages of metal processing in Medieval Germany Date: 1556

Artificial Flower / N. York
Making artificial flowers at 12 cents per gross, New York. Date: 1891

Haslam Spinning Co
John Haslam Cotton Spinning Co. Manchester - view at night with the windows illuminated. Date: 1920

Mosside Mine Flood / 1939
A flood at the Mosside Mine, near Airdrie, Scotland, results in the deaths of three miners. Date: 22 September 1939

Oaks Colliery / 1866
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

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