Production Line Collection

Penn's Machine-Engine Factory at Greenwich: the Large Machine-Shop and Turnery, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Penn's Machine-Engine Factory at Greenwich [London]: the Large Machine-Shop and Turnery, 1865. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. Nelson K

Stephenson's locomotive manufactory at Newcastle-On-Tyne: the fitting shop, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Stephenson's locomotive manufactory at Newcastle-On-Tyne: the fitting shop, 1864....a view of the large building called "the fitting shop." It is here that

Stephenson's locomotive manufactory at Newcastle-On-Tyne: the lathe and tool shop, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Stephenson's locomotive manufactory at Newcastle-On-Tyne: the lathe and tool shop, 1864. View representing...as well as a wood-engraving can render such a subject

Cartoon from Puck, between 1880 and 1889. Creator: Frederick Burr Opper
Cartoon from Puck, between 1880 and 1889

Fisher's Patent Label Manufactury, 1857. Creator: Unknown
Fisher's Patent Label Manufactury, 1857. We have to notice the invention of a new patent label, which, from its being composed of cloth

P.O. Dept. between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing. P.O. Dept. between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing
P.O. Dept. between 1910 and 1920. USA. Women operating Union Special sewing machines

P.O. Dept. between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing. P.O. Dept. between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing
P.O. Dept. between 1910 and 1920. USA

Comforts Committee of Navy League, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Comforts Committee of Navy League, between 1910 and 1920. USA. First World War: women using circular knitting machines to produce socks for sailors

The Bank-Note Printing-Room, at the Bank of England, 1854. Creator: Unknown
The Bank-Note Printing-Room, at the Bank of England [in London], 1854. The quality and the water-mark of the...paper have in the new Note (now on the point of being issued to the public)

The Bank-Note Paper-Mill, Laverstoke, Hants. 1854. Creator: Unknown
The Bank-Note Paper-Mill, Laverstoke, Hampshire, 1854. Processing paper used for banknotes. The building, the machinery, and, indeed, the entire premises

Steam Sewing-Machines, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Steam Sewing-Machines, 1854. The machine-room of the firm of Holloway, Crowe, and Holloway, ...wholesale clothes manufacturers, Stroud, Gloucestershire...Here are twenty machines in work

Mare and Co.'s Iron Ship-Building Works, 1854. Creator: Charles William Sheeres
Mare and Co.'s Iron Ship-Building Works, 1854. Shipyard on the River Thames in London during the Crimean War, an... industrial army of between 3000 and 4000 hands

Ammunition Works at Northfleet - Ball-Cartridge-Making, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Ammunition Works at Northfleet - Ball-Cartridge-Making, 1854. Kent factory of Schlesinger & Wells during the Crimean War - extensive contract for the supply of ball cartridges to the Turkish

Ammunition Works at Northfleet - Bullet-Casting, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Ammunition Works at Northfleet - Bullet-Casting, 1854. Kent factory of Schlesinger & Wells during the Crimean War -...extensive contract for the supply of ball cartridges to the Turkish

The International Exhibition - cotton manufacture: Harrison's sizing-machine, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The International Exhibition - cotton manufacture: Harrison's sizing-machine, 1862....one among the series of interesting machines exhibited by J. Harrison and Sons, of Blackburn

The International Exhibition: Great Sugar-Mill, by Mirrlees and Tait, of Glasgow, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The International Exhibition: Great Sugar-Mill, by Mirrlees and Tait, of Glasgow, 1862. The use of this mill is to express the juice from the cane...an endless travelling-table...carries the canes up

Girls making cartridges for Enfield rifles at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Girls making cartridges for Enfield rifles at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, 1862. Our illustration was taken [at]...the Royal Laboratory Department...near the Plumstead marshes

Paper-making and cutting machine by Bryan, Donkin and Co. in the International Exhibition, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Paper-making and cutting machine by Bryan, Donkin and Co. in the International Exhibition, 1862. Side elevation of a machine...intended to manufacture an endless sheet of paper of any width under

Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: the beehive, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: the beehive, 1862. This is the upper floor of a two-storied building upwards of 200ft. in length and 60ft

Finishing shells at Woolwich Arsenal, 1862. Creator: W Thomas
Finishing shells at Woolwich Arsenal, 1862. Exertions are continued at Woolwich to supply munitions of war to the British possessions in North America...The splendid shell foundry is capable of

Munitions Factory, Bridgeport, Connecticut, c1870s. Artist: Theodore R Davis
Munitions Factory, Bridgeport, Connecticut, c1870s. Machines speeded up production after the Civil War. Illustration from Adventures of America, 1857-1900, by John A Kouwenhoven

Mrs. Doris Duke, who is 26 and a mother of one child, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942. Creator: Howard Hollem
Mrs. Doris Duke, who is 26 and a mother of one child, Corpus Christi, Texas. Mrs. Duke is a civil service worker in the Assembly and Repair dept

Mary Louise Stepan, 21, used to be a waitress... Consolidated Aircraft Corp
Mary Louise Stepan, 21, used to be a waitress. She has a brother in the air corps. She is working on transport parts in the hand mill, Consolidated Aircraft Corp. Fort Worth, Texas

Drilling a wing bulkhead for a transport plane at the Consolidated Air... Fort Worth, Texas, 1942
Drilling a wing bulkhead for a transport plane at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

Riveter at work on Consolidated bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp. Fort Worth, Texas, 1942. Creator: Howard Hollem
Riveter at work on Consolidated bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp. Fort Worth, Texas

Grading and packing onions, Rice County, Minnesota, 1939. Creator: Arthur Rothstein
[Grading and packing onions, Rice County, Minnesota]

In packing shed, grading and sacking potatoes... Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
In packing shed, grading and sacking potatoes in twenty-five pound sacks for the chain store trade. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California

In packing shed, grading and sacking potat... Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California, 1939 Creator: Dorothea Lange
In packing shed, grading and sacking potatoes in twenty-five pound sacks for the chain store trade. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California

Grading potatoes, preparing for shipment... ten miles south of Merrill, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Grading potatoes, preparing for shipment, cold, rainy morning, end of harvesting season. Potatoes have been stored in this growers cellar. Ten miles south of Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon

Plate 6 (Examining the Newly Spun Cocoons), from the series "Kaiko Yashinai-gusa", Japan, c. 1772

Filling Cartridges at the United States Arsenal, at Watertown, Massachusetts (Harpers Weekly, Vol. V), July 20, 1861

Imported Silk Reeling Machine at Tsukiji in Tokyo, 4th month, 1872

Women Workers and the War... First World War, 1914-1918, (c1920). Creator: Unknown
Women Workers and the War: drilling and assembling operations on fuses, First World War, 1914-1918, (c1920). From " The Great World War: A History", Volume VI, edited by Frank A Mumby

Women working in the Royal Army Clothing Factory, First World War, 1914-1918, (1933). Uniforms were sent to the WaC [Womens Army Auxiliary Corps] clothing stores where they were unpacked, measured

Women Workers for the War, c1914-1918, (c1920). Creator: Unknown
Women Workers for the War, c1914-1918, (c1920). Shell-making in one of the Scottish munition works. Women manufacturing shells in a factory during the First World War

Cornhill, London, 1840. Artist: WD Hornsby
Interior view of Purssells Kitchen, no 80 Cornhill, London, 1840; showing preparation and cooking of food, including biscuits and confectionery

Immigrant workers on the cooker production line at the GEC, Swinton, South Yorkshire, 1962. Due to a shortage of available workers for the production lines at their cooker

Cooker production line at the GEC factory, Swinton, South Yorkshire, 1960. Artist
Cooker production line at the GEC factory, Swinton, South Yorkshire, 1960. The final stages of cooker assembly at the GEC plant in Swinton (near Rotherham)

Refrigerators being assembled at the GEC in Swinton, South Yorkshire, 1963. Artist
Refrigerators being assembled at the GEC factory in Swinton, South Yorkshire, 1963. Later to become Morphy Richards, the company transferred production from their Birmingham plant after the Second

The cooker assembly line at the GEC factory, Swinton, South Yorkshire, 1963. Artist
The cooker assembly line at the GEC factory, Swinton, South Yorkshire, 1963. The final stages of cooker asembly at the GEC plant in Swinton (near Rotherham)

Bottling beer at Ward & Sons bottling plant, Swinton, South Yorkshire, 1961. Artist
Bottling beer at Ward & Sons bottling plant, Swinton, South Yorkshire, 1961. The bottles are filled and the caps placed on them before proceeding along the production line to the labelling machine

The final process of bottling beer, Ward & Sons bottling plant, Swinton, South Yorkshire, 1960. The bottles have passed through the pasteurising machine and the labels are attached

Beer bottles being filled at Ward & Sons, Swinton, South Yorkshire, 1960. Artist
Beer bottles being filled at Ward & Sons, Swinton, South Yorkshire, 1960. Wards new bottling plant, near Rotherham, had the capacity to put labels on and to fill 8000 bottles per hour

The final stages of bottling whisky at Wiley & Co, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1960. The final process of the whisky blending where the bottles are filled, the tops fitted and the labels attatched

GEC electrical goods assembly plant, Swinton, South Yorkshire, 1963. The end of the fridge assembly line can be seen in the foreground, where the fridges are being packed for dispatch

Detonator production, ICI plant, Denaby Main, South Yorkshire, 1962. Detonators were produced on the site for 70 years until the mid 1960s

Ward & Sons new soft drink bottling plant, Swinton, South Yorkshire, 1961. Artist
Ward & Sons new soft drink bottling plant, Swinton, South Yorkshire, 1961. Wards new bottling plant in Swinton, near Rotherham

Quality checking cookers at the GEC plant, Swinton, South Yorkshire, 1960. Artist
Quality checking cookers at the GEC plant, Swinton, South Yorkshire, 1960. An overview of the final stages of cooker assembly at the GEC plant in Swinton, near Rotherham

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