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Historic Assembly Lines

Vintage photographs of workers in assembly lines across various industries, including electronics and textiles, showcasing manual labor and production processes.

Group of male workers operating linotype machines in a newspaper printing press, New Orleans Times-Picayune, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Group of male workers operating linotype machines in a newspaper printing press, New Orleans Times-Picayune, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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The JUNEX KINEX. The press.The Ruhr area, country and people, work, life, leisure in the coalfield in 1976. Miners in a coal mine, Germany, EuropeFish cannery - Eden, South Coast., Austraila 1952. Women working on the production line, fish cannery factory,Charles Cavanaugh, Working as Back Boy in Mule Spinning Room, King Philip Mills, Fall River, Massachusetts, USA, Lewis Hine for National Child Labor Committee, June 1916Women Sewing and Knitting in Work Room, American Red Cross Garment Division, Washington DC, USA, Harris & Ewing, 1917The Mechanical Hand -- A scene in the artificial limb factory at Queen Mary's Hospital. Experiments are now being carried out at Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton, in the development of a mechanical hand that will enable the owner to write, smoke, hold a knife and fork or play golf. The experiments are being made for the Ministry of Pensions by Dr. A.A. Atkinson, who is in charge of the limb-fitting service at the Hospital. He lost a leg himself in the 1941 war. April 17, 1946.In one department of many: part of the furniture show-room, 1909. Baxendales premises in Miller Street, Manchester. 'The great whole-sale house of Baxendale and Co. is at once a mercantile and manufacturing firm...It manufactures or supplies the retail trades with almost every requisite, necessity, or luxury, whether for the private house, industrial undertaking, or municipality...Baxendales defies description by reason of its wonderful variety and comprehensiveness...the show-rooms are replete with all that is best and newest in furniture, in glassware, and in silverware, avenues of suiSeating ignition tubesGroup of mid adult women working in a canning plant, 1942Poll photo collection. Dublin. The large hall in which the administration of the Irish Hospitals Sweepstake is located. 1946. Dublin, IrelandUntitled (Man with Rope Coil) Lewis Wickes Hine (American, 1874-1940). , 1936-1937. Gelatin silver photograph, 4 3/4 x 7 1/4 in. (12.1 x 18.4 cm). Photography 1936-1937Women Carpenters -- In a Brisbane factory manufacturing thousands of ammunition boxes are 14 women cabinet-makers. All but two are married. They took on the job because they wanted to give some tangible assistance to their husbands in the fighting forces. After a few month's work these women without previous experience have become thoroughly competent, and are atedily increasing their output. Their work, according to the manager of the factory is efficient and compares favourably with that of maEmployees at their workstations at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing ca. between 1909 and 1932.Worker winding cotton thread onto large spools. Laurel cotton mills, Laurel, Mississippi. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Mississippi , LaurelJewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon and along the coast to Haifa. Cheese factory. Interior. Hand packing. 1939, Israel, Tel AvivVintage Photograph. Chinese textile mill in Shanghai.Recessing ringsYoung Spooler Tender, Full-Length Portrait, American Linen Company, Fall River, Massachusetts, USA, Lewis Hine for National Child Labor Committee, June 1916Women cobblers repairing footwear for the war effort, 1914-1918 (1936). Artist: UnknownPoll photo collection. Diamond processors (diamond grinders) at work in Natanya. January 1, 1964. Israel, NatanyaIndustry during the First World War- Dublin Kathleen Nolan presses a driving band onto a shell in the National Shell Factory at Parkgate Street, Dublin, during the First World War.Young Worker in Barker Cotton Mills, Mobile, Alabama, USA, Lewis Hine for National Child Labor Committee, October 1914Worker winding cotton thread onto large spools. Laurel cotton mills, Laurel, Mississippi. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Mississippi , LaurelAnefo photo collection. Manufacture Carpet Palace Soestdijk by carpet knuckle Kinheim in Beverwijk. March 31, 1954. BeverwijkRehabilitation Center for French Coal Miners Built with Marshall Aid - Charbonnage de France. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and PersonnelVintage photograph. Man feeding aluminum sheets into stamping machine for cutting into circular pieces for workingMale Workers, Assembling Department, National Cash Register, Dayton, Ohio, USA, William Henry Jackson for Detroit Publishing Company, 1902Measurement of resistance in traction engine. Trafikaktiebolaget Grängesberg Oxelösund's railways, TGOJ MA 407 in the background.Women work on assembly line building cannonsSide profile of female workers working in a factory, EnglandSadie Pfeiffer, Spinner in Cotton Mill, North Carolina; Lewis W. Hine, American, 1874 - 1940; North Carolina, United States, North America; negative 1910; print about 1920s - 1930s; Gelatin silver print; Sheet: 28 x 35.7 cm (11 x 14 1/16 in.)Young Girl Working as Spinner at Cotton Mill, Lancaster, South Carolina, USA, circa 1908Inside a big provision stores, Hammersmith, London, 1901 (1903). Artist: Unknown.Women's Factory War work at Slough Training Centre, England, UK, 1941 Ruby May works on a piece of machinery, probably a mechanical saw, at Slough Training Centre.Massachusetts. Lynn. shoe factories, 1895: woman operating sewing machine | Library of CongressAnefo photo collection. Leather and textile manufacturer. 1945American Expert at Men's Clothing Factory (Vestra), Strasbourg. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and PersonnelVintage photograph. Stitching skeins of rayon at the Hartford Rayon Corporation PlantBlack Women To Work In A Metallurgical Factory American, 1919.Electric machines. Mounting electric motors.Poll photo collection. Report hero factory. Girls in a conservative to a sorting machine. August 1933. Breda, Noord-BrabantC.O. Öberg & Co: S AB, Eskilstuna. Punching of files.Industry during the First World War- Dublin Kathleen Nolan presses a driving band onto a shell in the National Shell Factory at Parkgate Street, Dublin, during the First World War.Group of male workers working in an aircraft assembly plant of factory, California, USAAnefo photo collection. Apple sorting machine with women. February 20, 1951Women at work during the First World War- Munitions Production, Chilwell, Nottinghamshire, England, UK, c 1917 A woman drives a trolley train across a busy factory floor at the National Filling Factory, Chilwell. The trolley is loaded with shells and is used to transport the shells from one part of the factory to another.Sumiko Shigematsu, Foreman Of Power Sewing Machine Girls, Manzanar Relocation Center, California 1943Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)Woman Workers British. June 4, 1918.Anefo photo collection. Assignment Elsevier married women at work on a running band at Albert Heyn (Zaandam). March 14, 1969. Noord-Holland, Zaandam, ZaanstadEngraving a scene from within the WM Younger & Co., Holyrood Brewery - cleansing beer in union casks, where it was cleared after the primary fermentation. Dated 19th centuryIndustry during the First World War Female munitions workers put the finishing touches to high explosive and gas shells in a British factory during the First World War.Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Prison in Tjipinang. The fabric studio. June 1947. Batavia, Cipinang, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East IndiesYoung Boy Working as Doffer in Globe Cotton Mill, Augusta, Georgia, USA, circa 1909Child labour in the USA 1909. Bibb Mill No. 1 Many youngsters here. Some boys were so small they had to climb up on the spinning frame to mend the broken threads and put back the empty bobbins. Location: Macon, GeorgiaWomen handling lathe in a factory in the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)Information office and radio broadcaster Dutch New Guinea. After the opening of the drag slope "Ir. Konijnenburg" in Manokwari, a cold lunch was consumed in the machine hall. May 1957. New GuineaJobs in a chocolate factory of the Coop Group 9.7.1974 in Dortmund, Germany, EuropeVintage Photograph. Women working in a bustling mid-century factory.Stirrup Pump Manufacture, England, UK, 1941 Two women add more pumps to the large pile of finished sitrrup pumps at this factory, somewhere in Britain. According to the original caption, this represents just some of the 12,000 pumps which are produced each week.Stocking Manufacture in Nottinghamshire, England, 1940 A female cutter at work in a stocking factory in Nottinghamshire. The machine she is using is a whirling wheel with a razor-edge blade, making many cuts in one movement. On the table next to her is a stack of folded linen, awaiting attention.Young Girl Working in Textile Mill, Cherryville, North Carolina, USA, Lewis Hine for National Child Labor Committee, November 1908A textile mill. Sweeper and doffer boys in Lancaster Cotton Mills, Lancaster, S.C. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine, December 1, 1908.female machine operator in a pencil factory circa 1925Industry during the First World War A female worker operates a calendaring machine in the rubber factory of Charles Macintosh and Sons Ltd, Manchester, in September 1918.1923 Packing Sardines In Canada14-year-old Spinner, Full-Length Portrait, Brazos Valley Cotton Mill, West, Texas, USA, Lewis Hine for National Child Labor Committee, November 1913Recinto de trabajo de la fábrica Melis de calzado de Inca (ca. 1930), Museo del Calzado y de la Piel , Inca ,Mallorca, balearic islands, spain, europe.Part Time Workers- War Industry in a Converted Cafe, Tattenham Corner, Epsom, Surrey, England, UK, 1943 Women assemble valve holders at an 'outworking' unit in a converted cafe at Tattenham Corner, Epsom.Wholesale Meat MarketSpinning Mill Near Rouen Menibus Co.. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and PersonnelSkiopticon image from the Department of Photography at the Royal Institute of Technology. Use by Professor Helmer Bäckström as teaching material. Bäckström was Sweden's first professor in photography at the Royal Institute of Technology 1948-1958. Optische Anstal C. P. Goerz, Berlin.Sweeper and doffer boys in Lancaster Cotton Mills. Many more as small, December 1908. Anefo photo collection. Poultry exhibition Amitophilia Utrecht. November 3, 1955. UtrechtGas Mask Production during the First World War A general view of women at work in the eyepiece room of an Anti-Gas Mask Factory.Interior of the Manuel Cerini shoe factory, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year LIV, No 2, January 9, 1927.Konervinfabrik Gifhorn, woman distributed downstairs peas on a metal sheetTextile Mill in Lille (Craven's Pix). Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and PersonnelHenry Fournier, Full-Length Portrait, Sweeper and Cleaner, #2 Spinning Room, Salem, Massachusetts, USA, Lewis Hine for National Child Labor Committee, October 1911At the Electrolux Works, Paris. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and PersonnelThe rope ware track (pictured name).The rope warehouse (depicted name)Millville, New Jersey - Textiles. Millville Manufacturing Co. Lady twisting thread., 1936, Lewis Hine, 1874 - 1940, was an American photographer, who used his camera as a tool for social reform. US,USAPreparing prescriptions in the Moscow Pharmaceutical Plant, USSR, 1935-1945.Conservation factory Gifhorn, women sorting the deepest peas08/20/1931. Sewing machines that will be carried out on behalf of the city council and delivered to their owners.Shipbuilding during the First World War Female workers splice cargo netting in a naval rope workshop in the United Kingdom during the First World War.History of Spain. Tolosa, Basque Country. Interior view of the paper mill ""La Guipuzcoana"". Sizing. Drawing from life by Juan Comba. Engraving. The Spanish and American Illustration (La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana), 1884.James Ingersoll or Tom Gilroy , Elevators, Engine rooms, Mechanics Persons. Leon Abdalian CollectionJobs at the pharmaceutical production Medice on 12.02.1980 in Iserlohn, Germany, EuropeDrawing-in, silk processing. Italy, 20th century.Blind workers on a production line, Germany c1925.Industry during the First World War Female workers hold shells they are stacking in a British munitions factory during the First World War.Industry during the First World War Female workers hold shells they are stacking in a British munitions factory during the First World War.Vintage photograph. Wiring for electronics systems installations partially assembled