Process Collection (page 4)

Scene at a Lancashire calico bleaching and dyeing works
Scene at a calico bleaching and dyeing works in Dukinfield, Lancashire, showing washing by dash wheels. Date: 1843

Carding machine in a Lancashire cotton mill
Carding machine with operatives in a Lancashire cotton mill. Date: 1843

Mill Room in the Staffordshire Potteries
Mill Room where the ingredients are mixed, Staffordshire Potteries. 1843

Making bootlaces with brass tags at the Old Silk Mill, Derby
Two workmen making silk bootlaces with brass tags at the Old Silk Mill, Derby. Date: 1843

Throwing machine at the Old Silk Mill, Derby, and (below) people throwing or spinning by hand. Date: 1843

Winding machine at the Old Silk Mill, Derby
Woman operating a winding machine at the Old Silk Mill, Derby. Date: 1843

Four hanks of silk, Old Silk Mill, Derby
Four hanks of silk, as seen at the Old Silk Mill, Derby -- Bengal, Italian, Persian and Broussa. Date: 1843

Tessellated tiles, Royal Porcelain Works, Worcester
Tessellated tiles made at the Royal Porcelain Works, Worcester. Date: 1843

Moulds and casts, Royal Porcelain Works, Worcester
Moulds and casts used at the Royal Porcelain Works, Worcester. Date: 1843

Scene at Royal Porcelain Works, Worcester
Scene at the Royal Porcelain Works, Worcester -- a potters wheel, with a thrower, ball maker and wheel turner at work. 1843

Process at British Needle Mills, Redditch, Worcestershire
Process at the British Needle Mills, Redditch, Worcestershire -- three images showing how the threading hole is stamped into the needles. Date: 1843

Enlarging lantern advertisement 1905
Advertisement from W.Butcher and Sons camera house based in London, England. The advert promotes 3 different enlargers for creating photographic prints. 1905

Portable darkroom - Instructions
Written instruction for creating a portable darkroom to develop photographic prints. Date: 1905

Portable darkroom
A man uses a self contained, portable darkroom to develop photographic prints. Date: 19th century

Processing photographs
A man processing photographic images within a small workshop/workroom. He is surrounded by all the equipment he requires to create prints. Date: 1880

Laboratory / photography prints
A laboratory/workshop for making photographic prints. The engraving shows the range of equipment required to turn negatives into positive photos. Date: 1864

Preparing a glass plate
A young man prepares a glass plate for photographic exposure within a workshop. Date: 1863

Retouching photographic negatives
A man uses a magnifying glass to look at the details on photographic negatives in preparation of retouching them in a specially designed workroom. Date: 1863

Chinese paper making, QIng Dynasty
Chinese paper making: young bamboo shoots are stripped of their bark, beaten and soaked in river water for a fortnight. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon

Man checking pipes at a distillery, south-west London
Man checking pipes (the specific gravity of the contents to ascertain the strength or proof) at the worm end, at the Octavius Smith and Co distillery, Thames Bank, south-west London. Date: 1842

Wash still at a distillery, south-west London
Wash still at the Octavius Smith and Co distillery, Thames Bank, south-west London. Date: 1842

Mash tun at a distillery, south-west London
Men stirring the contents of the mash tun (mashing machine) at the Octavius Smith and Co distillery, Thames Bank, south-west London. Date: 1842

Cooling floor at a distillery, south-west London
Cooling floor for ground meal at the Octavius Smith and Co distillery, Thames Bank, south-west London. Date: 1842

Grain mill and meal sacks at a distillery, south-west London
Grain mill and meal sacks being filled at the Octavius Smith and Co distillery, Thames Bank, south-west London. Date: 1842

Oil leather fulling stocks at leather factory, south London
Oil leather fulling stocks (with heavy wooden hammers, used for producing wash leather or chamois leather) at the Neckinger Mills leather factory, Bermondsey, south London. Date: 1842

Sumach tan tub at a leather factory, south London
Sumach tan tub (part of the goatskin tanning process) at the Neckinger Mills leather factory, Bermondsey, south London. Date: 1842

Ensign Print Wallet for Photographs and negatives - processed by T W Salmon & Son, Photographic Chemists, Norton and Stockton-on-Tees. circa 1920s

Crowd outside the Law Courts, London - Casement Trial
Crowd outside The Royal Courts of Justice (the Law Courts), The Strand, London, May 1916, for the trial for treason of Sir Roger David Casement (1864-1916), diplomat, humanitarian activist, poet

A Portable Photographic Dark Room Tent. 1857

Draining off camphor oil, Formosa (Taiwan)
The islands main industry, draining off camphor oil, Formosa (now Taiwan), which was at this time a Japanese province. After the camphor has crystallised

Tank room for boiling nitrate, Chile, South America -- the end product is pure nitrate of soda, known as saltpetre. Date: 1922

Operatives crushing nitrate, Chile, South America -- the end product is pure nitrate of soda, known as saltpetre. Date: 1922

Jamaican industry was struggling against fierce rivalry of production volumes from the great European Nations manufactures

Accepting the challenge 1387
King Richard II overseeing an Appeal of Treason. This process was used three times during Richards reign, the first one being in November 1387, when the Duke of Gloucester

Porcelain manufacturers 1843
Workers carefully place seggars or saggars for firing in the biscuit kiln at the Royal Porcelain Works, Worcester. 1843

Woman in a corn mill, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands. Date: circa 1900s

Manufacturing Sevres porcelain
A very beautifully shot postcard photograph showing the colouring workshop (preparing the background colours) for Sevres porcelain, particularly the famous Sevres Blue - Sevres Factory, France

William Caxton checking a proof
The printer William Caxton checking a proof. Printed the first English illustrated book, the encyclopaedia The Myrrour of the worlde in 1481. Date: circa 1481

Liberty Loan, Preparing the Bonds at Washington U. S. A 1917
Women worker at the bureau printing presses, bonds had to go through lots of processes before the finish result was ready to be purchased by the public. Date: 1917

Slingsby Dart 17R 96 in the process of being rigged before flying (note: the centre-section fairing has yet to be fitted). Date: circa 1982

de Havilland DHC-1 Chipmunk G-AOSU (msn 0217 - ex RAF WB722) at Newcastle Airport. In 1977, this aircraft was in the process of conversion to the Supermunk prototype

Fourteen colour plates are used to make the engraving for the special supplements, here you can see the different print machines used for each colour that is done separately. Date: 1881

Printing the original weekly newspaper The Graphic. Date: 1881

Men working in the batteries and dynamo machine room before going to print. Date: 1881

Engravers work through the night to produce the latest news for that week. Date: 1881

Finising and planing the electrotypes, before the printing can be done. Date: 1881

Some of the artist in the early Graphic newspaper that produce the thousands of sketches or elaborate drawings of different subjects that went together to make this interesting publication. Date: 1881

The General Election - Intelligent Voters
Comic Postcard series - The General Election - Intelligent Voters. A mild satire as a bunch of working class rural yokels of Mudford take great interest in the finest small print of a prospective

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