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Rowlands Aqua d Oro - Distilling Perfume, marketed by A Rowland & Son of Hatton Garden, London. circa 1850s
Mincing BeefMinced beef coming out of the mincing machine onto a metal plate. Date: 1960s
Pea TenderometerTesting 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
Iron Processing / 1556A depiction of the various stages of metal processing in Medieval Germany Date: 1556
Harvesting TobaccoTobacco plant, and scene of harvesting the tobacco crop in central Africa Date: 1900
Tobacco Harvest, AfricaHarvesting the tobacco crop, Central Africa Date: circa 1900
Food preparation in the 17th centuryPreparing foodstuffs of every kind - fowls are dressed, cows are milked, grapes are trod, soup is heated, bread and other items are carried by porters, biscuits are tasted Date: 17th century
Unemployment in Britain in 1903Unemployed workers processing along the Strand, London - not a one-off event but a daily happening Date: February 1903
Olive Oil mill in the open. Date: 1872
Cigar makers demonstraion in HavanaIn Havana, Cuba, the cigar- makers demonstrate in protest against the mechanisation of their trade Date: 1928
Chinese tea industryTea cultivation in China : processing on a plantation Date: circa 1840
New York City, USA - Ellis Island. Date: circa 1910s
Pressing pomace, California wine industry, USA. Date: circa 1910
Fishery workers on a quaysideFishery workers engrossed in their work, surrounded by barrels on a quayside. Date: circa 1920s
Silhouettes for Bristol Pure Milk Co LtdSilhouettes by H.L. Oakley for a leaflet published by Bristol Pure Milk Co Ltd, on the production, processing and delivery of homogenised milk
Man winnowing corn, Egypt. Date: circa 1870
Harvesting scene with soldiers, Western Front, WW1A harvesting scene with soldiers on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916
King George V visiting a sawmill, Western Front, WW1King George V visiting the sawmill of a forestry company on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916
Purifying river water for British troops, Western Front, WW1Purifying river water for the consumption of British troops on the Western Front in France during World War One. Poisons are removed, the water is sterilised and is held in a canvas cistern
Young man processing wool, ScotlandA young man in the textile industry in Scotland, processing wool
Four fishery workers surrounded by barrels on a quayside. Date: circa 1920s
Three women fishery workers, carrying large containers of fish
West Indies sugar plantationA sugar plantation in the West Indies, showing cultivation and harvesting of sugar cane, as well as a horse-powered sugar grinding mill. Date: 19th century
Men with crates of fish on quaysideMen working on a quayside with crates of fish labelled William Carnie and David Dow, Newhaven
Two men sawing wood in a workshop
Sweeps procession on May DayA chimney sweeps procession in celebration of May Day with a Jack in the Green covered in foliage. Date: 1855
South Korea - Joseon - Funeral Procession. Date: circa 1920
Linen Processing MachineItalian machines for the softening and treatment of hemp Date: circa 1850
Fackelzuc, Heidelberg, 30 January 1857, song, soldiers
Platinum mining in the Ural Mountains - the cleaning process. The Urals run north to south through western Russia, from the Arctic Ocean to the Ural River and northwestern Kazakhstan. Date: circa 1903
Minho, Portugal - Corn threshingThreshing corn at Minho, Portugal - the stems and husks of corn are beaten with flails to separate the grains from the cob. Date: circa 1910s
Casablanca, Morocco - New Abattoir and livestock yards Date: circa 1910s
Refine Sugar / 18th CSUGAR PRODUCTION Two men at work in a sugar factory in 18th century France. Sugar is being refined in large boilers. Date: circa 1760
Sugar Cane Press / 18th CSUGAR 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
Vietnam, Hanoi - Rice HuskingTwo young girls working at the decortication (husking/hulling) of rice in Hanoi, Vietnam. Date: circa 1903
Peas for CanningPeas for canning in Britain. A scene at the canning plant, showing shelled peas emerging from the viners, where they are fed into trays before being covered with ice. Date: 1950s
Threshing Wheat - Turkey Date: circa 1900
Processing sugar cane, 1877Grinding sugar cane in Cuba. Date: 1877
Sugar mill, Guadaloupe, 1850sA sugar mill at Guadaloupe, West Indies. Date: 1850s
West Indies sugar millInterior view of a sugar mill in the West Indies. Date: 19th century
De Mornays patent sugar-mill, Brazil, 1854The interior of a mill house showing de Mornays patent sugar-mill on the Carauna Estate, in Pernambuco, Brazil. Date: 1854
St. Ives, Cornwall, gutting the catchGutting the catch of the day on the beach at St. Ives, Cornwall. Dinnertime for the seagulls! Date: circa 1930s
Royal procession at Westminster Abbey, LondonA royal procession at Westminster Abbey, as part of Queen Victorias Golden Jubilee. Date: 10 July 1887
Queen Victoria opening Parliament, processing through Westminster Palace on her way to the House of Lords. Date: 1886
Cotton Processing 18th CVarious stages of cotton processing in the 18th century. Date: Circa 1760
Hemp Processing 18th CVarious stages of hemp processing in 18th century France. Date: Circa 1760
Harvesting Hemp 18th CMen and women harvesting hemp in 18th century France. Some of them are threshing hemp. Date: Circa 1760
French Tobacco FactoryVarious activities in a French tobacco factory. Date: circa 1760