Processing Collection

Porthgain lime workings, Pembrokeshire, West Wales
View of Porthgain lime workings on the Pembrokeshire coast, West Wales

Met Police officers during Grunwick dispute
Two Metropolitan Police officers relax on deckchairs in The Mall, Central London, waiting for a political demonstration over the Grunwick dispute to begin

Andrew Carnegie at St Andrews University, Scotland
The Scottish-born American philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie, at St Andrews University in Scotland. He served as Rector from 1901 until 1907. He is processing with others in academic robes

Pouch Cove, Newfoundland - Fishing Stages. A fishing stage is a wooden vernacular building, associated with cod fishing in Newfoundland, Canada

Shoreditch Cottage Homes, Hornchurch, Essex
Boys in surplices leaving the chapel at the Shoreditch Union cottage homes, Hornchurch, Essex

Llandarcy Oil Refinery, Swansea, Wales
The tank farm at the Llandarcy Oil Refinery, Swansea, Wales - built by British Petroleum Oil between 1918-22

Sugar processing mill, windmill, Barbados, West Indies
Vintage 19th century photograph: sugar processing mill, windmill, Barbados, West Indies, works and man on a horse, stacks of sugar cane

Great Western Tea Factory, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1920

Wool sorting and classing, Burrawang, Australia
Wool sorting and classing in a shearing shed, Burrawang, New South Wales, Australia. Date: circa 1890s

BOTTLING HEINZ PICKLES
Bottling Heinz pickles in a factory in Pittsburgh, America. Date: 1906

Yeoman Warders of the Tower on their way to Easter service at St. Peter ad Vincula Chapel in the Tower of London after their annual inspection by the governor of the Tower. Date: 1936

Wellingtons Funeral
The Civic Authorities in the Duke of Wellingtons funeral procession passing down Fleet Street, London & the offices of Punch. The road is flanked by armed soldiers

Waianae Sugar Company - processing mill, Hawaii
Vintage 19th century photograph: Waianae Sugar Company - processing mill, Hawaii

The Grand Gates to the Abattoir at Lille, France Date: circa 1906

Iron processing in Bronze Age, Kazakhstan area
Bronze Age craftsmen (blacksmiths) processing iron with special tools, shaping the metal by hammering. In the background are yurts and a mountain landscape. 3000-1200 BCE

Fisher Girls at Gorleston-on-Sea, Norfolk Date: circa 1950

Canaries - Religious Procession - Festival day - Las Palmas
Canary Islands - Religious Procession on a festival day - Las Palmas. Date: circa 1910s

Pounding corn in Korea - Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts Date: circa 1910

Women on production line, United Biscuits, Harlesden
Women at work on the production line for McVitie's Jaffa Cakes at the United Biscuits factory in Harlesden, Middlesex, 23 September 1970. Date: 1970

Man removing peas from froster in Birds Eye factory
Man removing peas from a froster in Birds Eye factory. The peas have been quick-frozen, ready for storage at sub-zero temperature. Date: circa 1970s

Woman inspecting peas in Birds Eye factory
Woman inspecting peas in a Birds Eye factory before they are quick-frozen. Date: circa 1970s

GAMBETTA'S FUNERAL
LEON MICHEL GAMBETTA (1838 - 1882) Funeral procession of the French lawyer & statesman leaving the Chamber of Deputies

AMERICAN TOBACCO GROWER
An American tobacco grower sits leaning on a barrel of the tobacco which will be sent away to poison the lives of millions of wretched victims doomed to a miserable death Date: 1871

Pounding rice - the last cleaning using fans, Japan
Vintage 19th century photograph: farming, agriculture, food processing, pounding rice - the last cleaning using fans, Japan

Coils of steel wire await processing in a factory. Date: circa 1930s

Processing tobacco leaves, studio scene, Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph

German Crown Princess at Assouan, Egypt
The Crown Princess of Germany (Cecilie of Mecklenberg-Schwerin) pictured leaving the German Church at Assouan (Aswan), Egypt in 1911

Frys Cocoa and Chocolate, hydraulic presses for extracting cocoa butter. 1893

Cartoon, Chicago Meat Factory with Uncle Sam. 1906

Workers drying pollack near the sea, 18th century
Pollack, Pollachius pollachius 97, and workers preparing and drying fish in a shed, Europe, 18th century

Fish wives washing pollock in a shed, 18th century
Pollock, Pollachius virens, and fish wives washing fish in tubs and arranging them on palettes

Processing whiting and hake in a shed, America, 18th century
Whiting, Merlangius merlangus 92 and hake, Merluccius merluccius 93. Workers gutting and salting fish in a shed on a dam above a river in North America

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

A Portable Photographic Dark Room Tent. 1857

Women packing cigarettes at Copes factory, Liverpool 1891
Women packing cigarettes at Copes factory, Liverpool. Date: 1891

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

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

Processing Tea Japan circa 1880s. Date: circa 1880s

WORKERS GUILD DRINKING
A German workers guild on their day off processing through the streets and drinking copiously. Date: 1847

WOOL PROCESSING
Processing wool: spinning, reeling, warping & weaving. Date: 18th century

HASSALL FOOD PREPARED
Packing the Hassall Food at Messrs Goodall, Backhouse and Cos manufactory, no doubt located somewhere in Yorkshire Date: circa 1865

PREPARING FOOD - RELISH
Bottling and labelling the Yorkshire Relish at Messrs Goodall, Backhouse and Cos manufactory, doubtless located somewhere in Yorkshire Date: circa 1865

Indigo factory in India
The processing of Indigo in India. Date: 1878

PRESERVING FOOD, FRANCE
A French laboratory for the cooking of foods destined for preservation Date: circa 1880

Unhairing a goatskin at a leather factory, south London 1842
Workman unhairing a goatskin (removing the hairs with the edge of a knife) at the Neckinger Mills leather factory, Bermondsey, south London. Date: 1842

Staking tawed leather at a leather factory, south London
Workman staking tawed leather (stretching, smoothing and softening) at the Neckinger Mills leather factory, Bermondsey, south London. Date: 1842

Drawing goatskins at a leather factory, south London
Two men drawing goatskins at the Neckinger Mills leather factory, Bermondsey, south London. The process involves repeatedly soaking the skins in a solution of lime and water over a number of weeks

Leather splitting machine at a leather factory, south London
Man operating a leather splitting machine (used for splitting one skin into two thinner skins) at the Neckinger Mills leather factory, Bermondsey, south London. Date: 1842

FRANCE / COLLIOURE
(Pyrenees Orientales) depicted on the occasion of a Fete patronale, with boats processing round the harbour Date: circa 1845

Rolling cigars by hand at Copes factory, Liverpool
Hand-rolling cigars at Copes factory in Liverpool. Date: 1891

Indigo manufactory in India
An indigo manufactory in India, processing dyestuff from the indigofera plant. Date: circa 1770

French tobacco factory Date: circa 1760

Tobacco harvest in Algeria
Algeria : tobacco harvest Date: 1862

Tobacco Plantation
Virginia, USA : clearing ground preparatory to planting tobacco on a plantation Date: 1874

Hogshead of Tobacco
Virginia, USA : getting a hogshead of tobacco ready for market Date: 1874

Man on gate outside seafood processing factory shovels ice
A man sits on a gate outside a seafood processing factory and shovels ice into a red skip. The ice is used during the processing of scallops in Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway, SW Scotland

Sperry bomb-sight apparatus 1944
Diagram of a Sperry bomb-sight O-1 used by the United States Army Air Forces (USaF) bombers in World War Two

Indigo Factory at Sultanganj, Bihar, India
Indigo (a natural dye extracted from plants) Factory at Sultanganj, a city and a notified area in Bhagalpur district in the Indian state of Bihar, situated on the south bank of Ganga river

The Chicago Tinned Meat Scandal
Delicacies weighed and packed in Armours Packing-House in Chicago, showing some dubious by-products of a Chicago meat processing factory used for making cheap sausages

Tea Estate and Factory, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
General view, Tea Estate and Factory, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1930

Cachar and Sylhet tea factory, Barak Valley, Assam, India. Date: circa 1910

Banarsi Dass flour mill, Ambala, Haryana, India
Banarsi (Banorsi) Dass flour mill, Ambala (Umballa), Haryana, India. Date: circa 1910

Oil Palm Estate, Calabar, Nigeria, West Africa
Oil Palm Estate, Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria, West Africa. Oil palm and rubber processing, Pamol Ltd. Showing a roundabout with signpost. Date: circa 1946

Computer. MAC model. Early 80 s. 20th century. National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo Da Vinci. Milan. Italy

Pea Tenderometer
Testing the tenderness of peas for canning with a machine called a Tenderometer. A metal blade is forced through a central container and the scale records the measurement. Date: 1950s

Social / Russia / Ball 1850
Court ball at St Petersburg, with officers and their ladies processing through the assembled crowd Date: 1850

Tobacco Growing Italy
Italy : clipping and de- leafing the tobacco plants Date: 1929

Nicolas Appert
NICOLAS APPERT French inventor of food processing Date: 1750 - 1841

Cuban tobacco plantation
A tobacco plantation in Cuba Date: 1870

Whale hunting vessel and factory by G. H. Davis
Floating whale factories: ships which reduce their prey to oil and by-products on the spot

A horse disgusted to find she is eating HUMAN
" Bad Stable Manners" - Eating with Ones Mouth Open! Dobbin disgusted to find out that instead of oats she has in fact been eating HUMAN

Sugar Cane Press / 18th C
SUGAR PRODUCTION Two mills used as sugar cane press in the French West Indies in the 18th Century. One is moved by animals, the other is a water mill. Date: circa 1760

Japan - A Country Watermill. Date: circa 1910s

Interior of a 16th century mill in operation. 16th century

International Exhibition at Amiens - Senegalese Village
International Exhibition at Amiens, France - Cooking in the Senegalese Village. Date: 1906

Foot and Mouth Research Laboratory, Pirbright, Surrey, the centre for research into this virulent disease. Seen here is a process worker in the main production unit. Date: 1968

Figurine depicting a carder at the 17th and 18th centuries. Sabadell History Museum. Catalonia. Spain

Rowlands Aqua d Oro - Distilling Perfume, marketed by A Rowland & Son of Hatton Garden, London. circa 1850s

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