Factory Collection

Blowing glass in a British factory, 1800s
Workers in a crown-glass factory, Great Britain, early 1800s. Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century illustration

Glass factory workers in Britain, 1800s
Manufacturing glass at a flint-glass factory, Great Britain, 1800s. Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century illustration

Spokane, Washington, 1880s
Spokane Falls before the great fire, Washington Territory, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Book and magazine printing press at Harper & Bros. New York City, early 1900s. Printed halftone of a photograph

Cloth labels from American textile mills, 1800s
Labels for cloth woven at 19th-century textile mills, displayed in Lowell, Massachusetts. Photograph

Jacquard loom, 1880s
Woman worker using a mechanized Jacquard loom, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illlustration

Brandywine Creek industry, Delaware, 1800s
Old mills along Brandywine Creek, Delaware, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Busy Seattle harbor, circa 1890
Bird s-eye view of Seattle, Washington Territory, circa 1890. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Machine-spun thread on a bobbin in the Lowell mills
Bobbins with machine-spun thread, Boott Cotton Mills, Lowell, Massachusetts. Photograph

New England textile factory, 1800s
Sugar River textile mill in Newport, New Hampshire, about 1880. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Working in a shoe factory, late 1800s
Shoe industry worker making lasts, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Vermont cheese factory, 1800s
Dairy farmers bringing milk to a Vermont cheese factory, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Pittsburgh from the Ohio River, 1880s
Steel mills darken the sky over Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Child laborers inspected in Britain, 1880s
English government inspector visiting child workers in a factory, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Sawmills in Maine, 1850s
Timber fed into sawmills on the Penobscot River at Old Town, Maine, 1850s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Riverboats approaching Pittsburgh, 1850s
City of Pittsburgh, viewed from the Ohio River, 1850s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Duquesne steel factories at night, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1900 Hand-colored halftone reproduction of an illustration

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Salmon cannery on the Pacific coast at Astoria, Oregon, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

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Iron industry workers manufacturing steel in England, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Knitting mill workers
Workers at their machines in a knitting mill, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Textile workers collecting their pay, 1890s
Payday in the weaving department of a textile mill, 1890s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

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Interior view of the salt-works in West Virginia. 1850s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

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Girl throwing clay to drive out air in a pottery factory, Trenton New Jersey, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Textile workers in a northern mill, mid-1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Lowell girls weaving in Massachusetts textile mills, 1850s. Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century illustration

Chinese immigrants working at a salmon cannery in Oregon
Chinese-Americans working at the Kinney Salmon Cannery in Astoria, Oregon, 1880s. Engraving of a 19th-century illustration

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1870s
Downtown Milwaukee looking west from the waterfront of Lake Michigan, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Boott Cotton Mills on the Merrimac River in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1850s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Textile mills line the Merrimac and Concord rivers in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1830s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Steel industry workers at the coke furnaces of Pennsylvania, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

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Power looms inside the Boott Cotton Mills, Lowell National Historical Park, Massachusetts. Photograph

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Fabric label for cloth woven in Lowell mills, Boott Cotton Mill Museum, Lowell, Massachusetts. Photograph

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Slaters Mill, first US textile factory, Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Photograph

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Textile mills along the Blackstone River, Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Photograph

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Bessemer steel converter in a Pittsburgh steel mill, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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A turpentine distillery in North Carolina, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Samuel Slater, known as the " Father of American Manufacturing." Hand-colored woodcut

Pittsburgh coke ovens, 1880s
Steel workers at the Pittsburgh coke ovens, showing their dwellings on the hilltop, 1880. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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MIll worker tending mule-spinners, an industrial textile machine, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

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Women garment workers in the dressmaking department of a factory, about 1890. Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century illustration

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Weaving at Spitalfields, England, 1700s. Hand-colored engraving from a Hogarth illustration

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Pinkerton men leaving Carnegie Steel Works during the Homestead Riot, 1892. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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