industrial history

A black and white photo of men working on cars. Dodge Brothers Motor C...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

The Manchester Print Works, at Manchester, N.H.

Exterior. Illus. in: Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, v. 7, 1854, p. 320. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Factories; Geogr.

Street in Chicago, United States

Illus. in: The Illustrated London News, 1863, p. 204. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ill. Chicago STREETS; Shelf.

Workers posing around conveyor belt in Berliner's gramophone plant, Ha...

Originally housed in large envelope addressed to Joseph Sanders from S. Fridberg. Verso: "Gramophon Kniestr 18, Hannover." Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is ... More

[President Grant and Don Pedro starting the Corliss engine at the cent...

Wood engraving from a sketch by Theodore R. Davis. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly (1876 May 27). Reference copy available in LOT 4435-A. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tra... More

Whirlpool Rapids, Ontario, Canada

Public domain image of a train station in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Norrie group no. 3, Ironwood, Mich

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue F (1899). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 04734. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

The Clay Monument, Canal Street, New Orleans

Attribution to Jackson based on listing as photo no. 8102 in Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). Negative taped to second sheet of glass. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 7402. Gift; State Historical Society ... More

Dam of the Chicago Drainage Canal, Joliet

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). "68" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 05934. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

[Shallow pit phosphate mine, Dunnellon, Florida]

Photograph shows African American laborers working in a pit with pickaxes and shovels and moving dirt with wheel barrows. Duplicate of photograph in LOT 4992. Dunnellon Phosphate Co., Mine No. 2.

[Blackgate and Castle, Newcastle-on-Tyne, England]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "10001". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at h... More

[Breaker boys, Woodward coal breakers, Kingston, Pennsylvania]

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Only Negro store of its kind in the U.S., at 2933 State St., Chicago, ...

Photo shows three men standing at the entrance to the business establishment of "Chas. F. Gardner Electrician and Locksmith" at 2933 State Street, Chicago, Illinois. Title from caption card. Images collected by... More

Frances Benjamin Johnston - Trade school - Shoe-making

Five men making and/or repairing shoes, Hampton Institute. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). LOT subdivision subject: Hampton... More

Zerbe aeroplane, on ground - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain photograph related to architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Model T's coming off the assembly line at the Highland Park plant]

Photograph shows three men riding the skeleton of an automobile coming off the line with the rear wheels running on a revolving steel drum. No. 197.

Drying nets, Ketchikan Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

Breaker boys, Woodward Coal Mines, Kingston, Pa

Detroit Publishing Co. no. 011590. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

P.S. 51 Manhattan, Anaemic class--Before lunch

Children in food line at Public School 51, Manhattan, New York City.

Packet "James Lee" - Public domain image of steamship

Picryl description: Public domain image related to an industrial revolution, industry history, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The Cathedral and Campanile (178 ft. high, leans 13 ft.), Pisa, Italy

H18336 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1105. Copyright by C.L. Wasson. Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl... More

The sweetest spot on earth--sugar levee--New Orleans, La.

Stereograph showing men working among thousands of barrels of sugar; man in foreground tasting sugar from barrel; smoke from steamboat in background. H25722 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1902 by Underwood & ... More

Locomotive DeWitt Clinton railway train, Public domain image

Photograph shows a DeWitt Clinton train on display. Copyright 1904 by Louisiana Purchase Exposition Co. No. 5003.

Thomas Edison and his original dynamo, Edison Works, Orange, N.J., U.S...

Thomas Edison, standing, full-length portrait, in front of engine. No. 13001.

Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill.

Bird's-eye view of Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois, showing elevated railroad.

[Elephants from Ringling Bros.--Circus, trains and crowd of people]

Copyright by Glasier, Brockton, Mass. Public domain photograph related to Circus, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Loading, a New England granite quarry

Public domain image related to an industrial revolution, industry history, factory building, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Dick Hibbard Brick Yard, Kearney, Nebraska, after the closing hour.

summary: Note: Combined with RG2608-2505a this photograph forms a panorama of the brick yard. original size: 6x8

Printing shop, Tuskegee - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows students at the Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

The wire mill, Donora, PA.

Wire mills spewing smoke along the Monongahela River, Donora, Pennsylvania. J139851? U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Bruce Dresbach, Donora, Pa.

Detroit Copper and Brass rolling mills, Detroit, Mich.

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Two miners ready to leave entrance of coal mine near Scranton, PA.

Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fourteen year old spinner in a Brazos Valley Cotton Mill at West. Viol...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

French field kitchen wagon in exhibition. Latest model

Title and notes from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Portable Equipment. Date based on date range for negative series. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information about the America... More

UNITED STATES NAVY. EITEL FRIEDRICH, GERMAN SHIP TAKEN OVER BY U.S.; C...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Standing: Mike Menosky, Joe Boehling, Harry Harper, Edward "Patsy" Gh...

Public domain photograph related to baseball, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Young Spinner - Indian Orchard Cotton Mill. Location: Indian Orchard, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

IBM Manufacturing and Administrative Center, Rochester, Minnesota, 195...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

ARC city at Pisa. At work on the grounds, leaning tower in distance

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Commission to Italy. Group title: Reconstruction, Italy. Data: Lantern slides... More

Russian refugees crowding aboard ship at Novorossisk prior to the fall...

Photo by ARC This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Pain's U.S. Government Signal Factory

Women wrapping rockets, during World War I. J232802 U.S. Copyright Office. Photo by Irving Underhill, N.Y.C., copyrighted by Henry J. Pain, N.Y.C. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Ca... More

Phil., Pennsylvania factory, New addition

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Pho... More

Motor-testing Room in an Automobile Plant, Detroit, Mich

No. 32380. Public domain photograph of industrial revolution, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph of industrial revolution, stereoscop... More

Packing company strike. Cambridge, Maryland

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Godchaux sugar refinery, Reserve, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisia...

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[Locomotive and a watertower at the Erie Railroad yards, Jersey City, ...

NYWT&S staff photograph. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Warp winding machine with operator. Laurel mills, Laurel Mississippi

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bale of cotton after compressing. Memphis, Tennessee

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Copper mining and sulphuric acid plant. Copperhill, Tennessee

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Weaving room, Laurel cotton mill. Laurel, Mississippi

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Uncle George, blacksmith and carpenter who came from prison as a boy t...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Oil field worker screwing nipple on end of drill stem for test to dete...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A black and white photo of machinery in a factory, possibly related to...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

Freight cars being maneuvered in a Chicago and Northwestern railroad y...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, train car, railway, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Steel milled roll which separates linters from the cotton seed. Cotton...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Loading a lake freighter with coal at the Pennsylvania R.R. coal docks...

Public domain photograph of train tracks, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Grain elevator. Kansas City, Missouri

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Copper. Disc-type filters which remove moisture from the c...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Loading fat lambs on narrow gauge railway for shipment to Denver marke...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Electronic surrogate made from item with the same number in the LC-USF34 series. Transfer; United States... More

A black and white photo of a train engine, Great Depression. FSA/OWI P...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More

Lend-Lease to Britain. Shipment of 75 mm. guns from the United States ...

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Copper pit. Ruth, Nevada - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Picryl description: Public domain image of a coal mine, industrial facility, mining industry, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bethlehem steel mill. Sparrows Point, Maryland

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Worker at Correct Manufacturing Company. Fallston, Pennsylvania

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Each Dodge truck that goes into the se...

Public domain photograph of an automobile, car, the 1920s or 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sea jeeps. This amphibian car hits the water with a splash during a tr...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power station, dam, electric generator, industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Union Stockyards. Chicago, Illinois

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s industrial development, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Aluminum. Reynolds Metal Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Hot rolling "s...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A turpentine still near Pembroke, Georgia

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Trucks at Union Stockyards. Chicago, Illinois

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Utah Copper: Bingham Mine. Utah Copper Company, Bingham Canyon, Utah. ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, mine, excavation, or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Women airport workers. Acutely aware of our country's need for more wo...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Bridgeton, New Jersey. Seabrook Farm. Greenhouse and nursery

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Los Angeles County, California. The evacuation of Japanese and Japanes...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Production. Willow Run bomber plant. Experienced women workers at the ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tennessee Valley Authority production. Chemical plants. Electrical tra...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. As the blanket of...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Tennessee Valley Authority production. Elemental phosphorus. A large e...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s industrial development, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tulsa, Oklahoma. Loading rack at the Mid-continent refinery

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Battery of ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Tennessee Valley Authority. The scroll case for a generating unit in t...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a construction site, industrial or commercial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Automobile plant. All silent in this huge plant where auto...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Brooklyn, New York. Industrial hygiene specialist testing a factory fo...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information ... More

Industrial safety. Accident prevention. This man is violating two rule...

De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Can southern workers do close-toleran...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. These machines are working for...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. C-47 transport planes. Engines for C-47 transport planes r...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Borger, Texas. The Phillips refinery

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Swedish-American foreman (left) at the SKF...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cincinnati, Ohio. Gas storage tanks as seen from the towboat Ernest T....

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Tail section of a French plane in front of damaged buildings and hanga...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a group of people. Office of War Informatio...

Title and other information from caption sheet entry. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is a... More

Baltimore, Maryland. Repairing a wrecked trolley at the damage repair ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

New Orleans, Louisiana. Truck and trailer

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Baltimore, Maryland. Women learning to use (?) a pantograph and templa...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lufkin, Texas. Southland paper mill. Paper machine from the wet end

Picryl description: Public domain photo of an industrial building, factory or warehouse, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A black and white photo of a train on the tracks. Office of War Inform...

Annotation on original negative jacket. This image in a jacket marked "Killed" To identify this image it may help to search for images that have neighboring call numbers, are similar in appearance, and have tit... More

Dyna-Empire, Stewart Ave., Garden City. General view II

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Demopolis, Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More