Refinery Collection

The Whale-oil Refinery near the Village of Smerenburg, 1639. Creator: Cornelis de Man
The Whale-oil Refinery near the Village of Smerenburg, 1639. Other Title(s): A Whale-Oil Factory of the Nordic or Greenland Company on Amsterdam Island at the north end of Spitzbergen (Svalbard)

The Kedawong Sugar Factory near Pasuruan, Java, 1849. Creator: Herman Theodorus Hesselaar
The Kedawong Sugar Factory near Pasuruan, Java, 1849

The Kemanglen Sugar Factory near Tegal (or Tagal), Java, 1870-1875. Creator: Abraham Salm
The Kemanglen Sugar Factory near Tegal (or Tagal), Java, 1870-1875

Michigan Sugar Co. Saginaw, Mich. c1908. Creator: Unknown
Michigan Sugar Co. Saginaw, Mich. c1908

Refinery and the Delessert garden, in Passy, ??seen from the left bank (circa 1820). Creator: Unknown
Refinery and the Delessert garden, in Passy, ??seen from the left bank (circa 1820)

"Factories, Refineries, Granaries Grow Thick" Ship Discharging Grain by Floating Pneumatic Elevators and Into Quayside Mill at Millwall Dock, 1937

The International Exhibition: sugar-refining apparatus of Messrs. Caile and Co. of Paris, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The International Exhibition: sugar-refining apparatus of Messrs. Caile and Co. of Paris, 1862. European machine processing sugar cane from the colonies

De-waxing plant at Mid-Continent refinery, Tulsa, Okla. (1943?). Creator: John Vachon
De-waxing plant at Mid-Continent refinery, Tulsa, Okla

Employees at Mid-Continent Refinery, Tulsa, Okla. (1943?). Creator: John Vachon
Employees at Mid-Continent Refinery, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Sugar beet factory (Amalgamated Sugar Company) along... Nyssa, Malheur County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Sugar beet factory (Amalgamated Sugar Company) along Snake River. Nyssa, Malheur County, Oregon, a one-factory town

Entrance to Amalgamated Sugar Company factory at opening... Nyssa, Malheur County, Oregon, 1939
Entrance to Amalgamated Sugar Company factory at opening of second beet season. Nyssa, Malheur County, Oregon. [Sign: No Visitors - Applications Closed - All Openings Filled ]

Spreckels sugar factory and sugar beet field, Monterey County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Spreckels sugar factory and sugar beet field with Mexican and Filipino workers thinning sugar beets. Monterey County, California

Gerrit Boon, 1801. Creator: Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Memin
Gerrit Boon, 1801

A Sugar Plantation, Cuba. Creator: Unknown
A Sugar Plantation, Cuba. Ox carts laden with sugar cane outside a refinery. Postcard

Sugar refinery in Leman Street, Stepney, London, 1851. Artist: Vincent Brooks
Fireproof Sugar Refinery, Leman Street, Stepney, London, 1851. From Vintage London by John Betjeman. [William Collins, 1942]

Sugar, 3. Crushing the Canes, Java, 1928. From Players Cigarettes - Products of the World: A Series of 50 [John Player & Sons, London, 1928]

A Silver Refinery, 1556, (1917)
A Silver Refinery, 1556. From De re metallica by Georg Bauer (1494-1555) (Latinized: Georgius Agricola), is a book cataloguing the art of mining, refining, and smelting metals, published in 1556

Sugar. Vacuum pan, 1866. A print from Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts, Mechanical and Chemical, Manufactures, Mining, and Engineering, edited by Charles Tomlinson, Volume II, Virtue and Co, London, 1866

Sugar Mill and Steam Engine, 1866

Clarifying sugar cane juce, Annam, Vietnam, 1922. An Annamese peasant ladles raw juice into copper pans, where it is mixed with ashes, clay, lime or another refining material

Tree growing out old sugar estate chimney, Jamaica, c1905. Artist: Adolphe Duperly & Son
Tree growing out old sugar estate chimney, Jamaica, c1905. Illustration from Picturesque Jamaica, by Adolphe Duperly & Son, (England, c1905)

Cubans Burning Refineries, (1870s), 1920s
Cubans burning a sugar refinery. During the two wars the Cubans burned many refineries to deprive revenue to the government of Spain

Sugar making at the Counterslip refinery, Bristol, 1873. Artist: WB Murray
Sugar making at the Counterslip refinery, Bristol, 1873. A print from the Illustrated London News, (29 November 1873)

The sugar industry, Richmond River, New South Wales, Australia, 1886. Artist: JR Ashton
The sugar industry, Richmond River, New South Wales, Australia, 1886. Wood engraving from Picturesque Atlas of Australasia, Vol I, by Andrew Garran

Sugar Plantation, New Orleans, 1870. Artist: A R Ward
Sugar Plantation, New Orleans, 1870. Crushing the sap out of sugar cane. Illustration from Adventures of America, 1857-1900, by John A Kouwenhoven, published by Harper & Brothers, (New York, London)

The Blackmans Lament on how to make Sugar, 1813. Artist: Amelia Alderson Opie
The Blackmans Lament on how to make Sugar, 1813. London 1813, Photo D.Bey

Filling and Heading Casks, 1826. Artist: Amelia Alderson Opie
Filling and Heading Casks, 1826. From The Black Mans Lament; or How to Make Sugar by Amelia Opie. (London, 1826)

Boiling and Cooling the Sugar, 1826. Artist: Amelia Alderson Opie
Boiling and Cooling the Sugar, 1826. From The Black Mans Lament; or How to Make Sugar, by Amelia Opie. (London, 1826)

Slave labour on a sugar plantation in the West Indies, 1725. Cane is cut and taken to vertical crushing mill powered by oxen

Two sugar mills, West Indies, 1764. A mule-powered mill with vertical rollers (top) and one with vertical rollers powered by an overshot waterwheel (bottom) West Indies

Sugar factory and plantation in the West Indies, 1686. Artist: Allain Manesson Mallet
Sugar factory and plantation in the West Indies, 1686. Cane is crushed in a horse or mule-powered mill with vertical rollers (centre left)

Sugar refinery, Southampton, England, which opened in 1851. The boiler house (left foreground), engine house (centre left) and stove and retort house (centre and centre right)

Interior of a sugar refinery, 1860. Metal cones are being filled with liquid syrup which will crystallise to form sugar loaves

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