A factory
n.d.
Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate
Private collection of Alan Johanson
LL/125735
1 of 74
Lathe
1845
Daguerreotype
7.1 x 5.7 cm
Private collection of W. & T. Bosshard
Daguerreobase: BOS-142, Creative Commons – Attribution Non-commercial, No derivatives (BY-NC-ND)
LL/73800
2 of 74
View of the Great Exhibition, Main Avenue, Crystal Palace
1851
Daguerreotype
Private collection of W. & T. Bosshard
Daguerreobase: BOS-2669, Creative Commons – Attribution Non-commercial, No derivatives (BY-NC-ND)
LL/73801
3 of 74
[Crystal Palace, Universal Exposition, 1851, London]
1851
Daguerreotype
Musée des arts et métiers
LL/120982
4 of 74
[Crystal Palace, Universal Exposition, 1851, London]
1851
Daguerreotype
Musée des arts et métiers
LL/120983
5 of 74
[Crystal Palace, Universal Exposition, 1851, London]
1851
Daguerreotype
Musée des arts et métiers
LL/120984
6 of 74
The cotton ground, Colaba, Bombay
[Photographs of Western India, Volume II. Scenery, Public Buildings, &c]
1858 (ca)
Albumen print
19 x 24 cm
National Gallery of Australia (NGA)
LL/79485
7 of 74
Indigo Vats
1850s
Albumen silver print
19.1 x 24.8 cm (7 1/2 x 9 3/4 ins) (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005, Accession Number: 2005.100.948.2 (21)
LL/79672
8 of 74
Bancs A Étirer
1875-1885 (ca)
Albumen print
44.8 x 53.8 cm
George Eastman Museum
1978:0693:0001
LL/57160 [Further details available]
9 of 74
Passy, vue plongeante sur la raffinerie, au fond la Seine, l'École Militaire (Paris)
1859
Albumen print, from paper negative
19.4 x 25.1 cm
Pierre Bergé & Associés
Une histoire particulière de la photographie Collection de Monsieur et Madame X, 19 March 2015, Lot: 149
LL/58229 [Further details available]
10 of 74
Mills of the Winona Paper Co., Holyoke, MA.
1875 (ca)
Albumen print
17 x 22 1/4 ins (43.18 x 56.52 cm) (overall)
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Gift of Hallmark Cards, Inc., Object number: 2005.27.4128
LL/80784
11 of 74
61. Salt Wells near Syracuse Pump House
[Syracuse and Its Surroundings]
1878 (published)
Stereoview, half
James E. Arsenault & Company
LL/106340 [Further details available]
12 of 74
31. Del., Lack. & Western Coal Co.'s Yard, Geddes.
[Syracuse and Its Surroundings]
1878 (published)
Stereoview, half
James E. Arsenault & Company
LL/106336 [Further details available]
13 of 74
Mineurs en marche, environs de Saint-Etienne
1895-1910
Épreuve au gélatino-bromure d'argent
28 x 39.1 cm
Musée d'Orsay
2006, acquisition, Accession number: PHO 2007 2 1
LL/121026
14 of 74
Deux ouvriers dans une aciérie, environs de Firminy
1900 (ca)
Aristotype
9 x 12 cm
Musée d'Orsay
Accession number: RF MO PHO 2014 3 14
LL/121030
15 of 74
River and furnaces from lower end of Nisky Hill
[Scenery in and around Bethlehem, Pa.]
1860-1930
Stereoview
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-stereo-1s10029 (digital file from original)
LL/108490
16 of 74
Lehigh Zinc Works
[Scenery in and around Bethlehem, Pa.]
1860-1930
Stereoview
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-stereo-1s10025 (digital file from original)
LL/108486
17 of 74
Friedensville Zinc Mines
[Kleckner Stereoscopic Gems of the Lehigh & Wyoming Valleys.]
1860-1930
Stereoview
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-stereo-1s10033 (digital file from original)
LL/109577
18 of 74
Friedensville Zinc Mines, "The President" pumping engine
[Kleckner Stereoscopic Gems of the Lehigh & Wyoming Valleys.]
1860-1930
Stereoview
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-stereo-1s10038 (digital file from original)
LL/109578
19 of 74
Friedensville Zinc Mines
[Kleckner Stereoscopic Gems of the Lehigh & Wyoming Valleys.]
1860-1930
Stereoview
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-stereo-1s10039 (digital file from original)
LL/109579
20 of 74
Larges(?) Saw Mill, Cuttelossa Valley
1870-1880
Stereoview
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-09962 (digital file from original stereograph, front) LC-DIG-ppmsca-09963 (digital file from original stereograph, back)
LL/108820
21 of 74
Cambria Iron Works
[The Scenery of the Pennsylvania Central Railroad.]
1860-1880
Stereoview
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-stereo-1s08889 (digital file from original)
LL/109927
22 of 74
Untitled
[Views about the West Point Foundry]
n.d.
Stereoview
The Jeffrey Kraus Collection
LL/116820
23 of 74
I.P. Morris & Co. Works, Port Richmond, Philada.
1861 (ca)
Stereoview
Library Company of Philadelphia
Accession number: 8353.F.19
LL/118204 [Further details available]
24 of 74
[I.P. Morris & Co. Works, Port Richmond, Philadelphia, after boiler explosion of October 19, 1861]
1861, October
Stereoview
Library Company of Philadelphia
Accession number: 8353.F.20
LL/118205 [Further details available]
25 of 74
300 Stamp Mill, Douglas, AK [Self portrait]
n.d.
Stereoview
Private collection of Carolyn and Michael Nore
LL/118421
26 of 74
(20) 5670 - In the great spinning-room - 104,000 spindles - Olympian Cotton Mills, Columbia, S.C.
1902 (copyright)
Stereoview
Private collection of Peppin - Peppin Anaglyphes
LL/119995
27 of 74
Grindstones which Convert Blocks into Wood Pulp - Manufacture of Paper, Skotifos, Norway.
n.d.
Stereoview
Private collection of Peppin - Peppin Anaglyphes
LL/120157
28 of 74
Small automobile factory, Germany
1920s
Gelatin silver print
17 x 21 cm
Bassenge Photography Auctions
Auction, 8 June 2022, Photography from the 19th – 21st centuries, Lot: 4091
LL/120227
29 of 74
The Chief Mining District of Cornwall
1893 (ca)
Woodburytype
Rijksmuseum
RP-F-2001-7-241 (and associated numbers)
LL/78813 [Further details available]
30 of 74
Imperial Oil in Sarnia
1899
Photograph
Private collection of John S. Rochon
LL/86773
31 of 74
Quarry workers in Vermont
1890s
Glass negative, broken, inverted
Private collection of Stephen Restelli
LL/88662
32 of 74
Lincoln Whf. Power Station [Boston, Massachusetts, USA]
1900, 5 November
Cyanotype
9 3/4 x 7 3/4 ins
Boston Public Library
Print Department, Accession #:08_02_001009
LL/93876
33 of 74
Employees in front of gasholder
[Boston Gas Light Company]
1886
Cyanotype
Boston College Libraries
Identifier: 2345/9088, 81488931740001021, 99137906057401021, Boston Gas Company Records
LL/93873 [Further details available]
34 of 74
Usine a gaz de La Bastide, Gazometre No. 2 - 1909
1909
Gelatin silver print
9 1/8 x 6 5/8 ins (23,2 x 16,8 cm)
Northern Light Gallery
SKU: 612-002
LL/58397
35 of 74
Worthington engine, Montreal Waterworks, Montreal, QC
1893
Silver salts on glass - Gelatin dry plate process
20 x 25 cm
McCord Stewart Museum
Purchase from Associated Screen News Ltd., II-101185
LL/105288
36 of 74
Ludlum Steel Co. Electric Furnace
1930s
Gelatin silver print
12 7/8 x 9 1/8 in. (32.7 x 23.2 cm)
Phillips - New York
The Odyssey of Collecting: Photographs from the Joy of Giving Something Foundation, 3 October 2017, No. 49
LL/77707
37 of 74
Armco Steel, Ohio
1922 (taken) 1970s (print)
Gelatin silver print
9 1/8x6 3/4 ins (23.2x17.1 cm) (image) 15x13 ins (38.1x33 cm) (mount)
Swann Galleries - New York
Images & Objects: Photographs & Photobooks, 19 April 2016, Lot: 58
LL/66174 [Further details available]
38 of 74
Plaster Works, Los Angeles
1925 (taken) 1970s (print)
Gelatin silver print
7 3/8x9 1/4 ins (18.7x23.5 cm) (image) 13 1/4x15 ins (33.7x38.1 cm) (mount)
Swann Galleries - New York
Images & Objects: Photographs & Photobooks, 19 April 2016, Lot: 59
LL/66175 [Further details available]
39 of 74
Factory detail (negative print)
1950s
Gelatin silver print, ferrotyped
27.5 x 23.3 cm
Bassenge Photography Auctions
Auction, 8 June 2022, Photography from the 19th – 21st centuries, Lot: 4332
LL/120374
40 of 74
In a car repair shop [Mongols. Mongolia, the city of Ulaanbaatar]
1900-1933
Photograph
Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography. Peter the Great (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Museum number: MAE I 1037-112
LL/100493 [Further details available]
41 of 74
Operations at Tolar Hart Mill, Fayetteville
1937
Photograph
State Archives of North Carolina
Albert Barden Photograph Collection, N_53_16_3494
LL/117532 [Further details available]
42 of 74
Carolina Power and Light co Fayetteville, NC Interior of Cotton Mill, Showing Lighting
1937, 28 July
Photograph
State Archives of North Carolina
Albert Barden Photograph Collection, N_53_16_6410
LL/117534 [Further details available]
43 of 74
[Interior of a factory]
1950s (ca)
Gelatin silver print
Private collection of Peter Spangenberg
LL/76438
44 of 74
Fosse 10 de Courrières. Lens
1951 (taken) 1985 (print)
Gelatin silver print
30 x 40 cm (with margins)
Ader Nordmann
Courtesy of Ader Nordmann (Auction, Photographs, 16 November 2014, Lot: 171)
LL/56257
45 of 74
Complexe industriel. Travail pour Fortune. États Unis
1950 (ca)
Gelatin silver print
28 x 35,5 cm (with margins)
Ader Nordmann
Courtesy of Ader Nordmann (Auction, Photographs, 16 November 2014, Lot: 148)
LL/56246
46 of 74
New Haven, Connecticut
1940s (taken) 1970s (print)
Gelatin silver print
19.1 x 24 cm
Westlicht Photographica Auctions
November 2014, 11th Photo Auction, Lot: 34
LL/56684 [Further details available]
47 of 74
Welsh Child with Stroller
1965 (taken) 1970 (print)
Gelatin silver print
17 x 25.2 cm (6 7/8 x 9 7/8 ins)
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Fine Photographs, 20 October 2016, Lot 57
LL/69554
48 of 74
A builder of the Magnitogorsk iron and steel works
1930
Gelatin silver print
Private collection of Sergey Maximishin
LL/105203
49 of 74
Workers operating machinery manufactured by Vulcan Iron Works
1925 (ca)
Silver contact print
4 3/8 x 6 1/2 ins (10.9 x 16.5 cm)
Swann Galleries - New York
19 October 2017 auction, Art of Storytelling, Lot: 47
LL/77779
50 of 74
Borstige Druckluftlokomotive
1930 (ca)
Gelatin silver print
4 3/4 x 6 3/4 ins (12.07 x 17.15 cm) (overall)
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Gift of Hallmark Cards, Inc., Object number: 2005.27.2968
LL/81453
51 of 74
Calaveras Cement Plant
1933
Gelatin silver print
8 x 10 ins (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Phillips - New York
9th April 2018, NY040118, Photographs & The Enduring Image: The Collection of Dr. Saul Unter, Lot: 21
LL/81889
52 of 74
Rheinhausen-Krupp-Hochofen-Werk
1967 (taken) 1992 (print)
Gelatin silver print, on RC paper
19.5 x 19.4 cm (25.3 x 20.2 cm)
Bassenge Photography Auctions
19th – 21st Century Photography, 8 December 2021, Lot: 4204
LL/115580
53 of 74
Paternité Métallurgique
1974
Gelatin silver print
Villa Grisebach Auktionen GmbH - Berlin
Auction 271, 31 May 2017, Lot: 2022
LL/76532
54 of 74
Óbuda Shipyard, workshop ["Goromba kovács muhely"], Hungary
1927, 8 November
Photograph
FOTO:Fortepan
www.fortepan.hu (Accessed: May 2018), Id: 133211, Donor: Hungarian Museum Of Technology And Transport / Collection Of Historical Photos / Collection Of Óbudai Shipyard, Inventory number: N271
LL/82952
55 of 74
A female worker with a loom, Hungary
1986
Photograph
FOTO:Fortepan
www.fortepan.hu (Accessed: May 2018), Id: 76107, Donor: Erdei Katalin
LL/83290
56 of 74
Metal worker
1973
Photograph
FOTO:Fortepan
www.fortepan.hu (Accessed: May 2018), Id: 139179, Donor: Szalay Zoltán
LL/83269
57 of 74
Oil Refinery of the Dunamenti Petroleum Company, Százhalombatta, Hungary
1971
Photograph
FOTO:Fortepan
www.fortepan.hu (Accessed: May 2018), Id: 87559, Donor: Urbán Tamás
LL/83263
58 of 74
Cars in the Renault factory, Paris
1958
Gelatin silver print
20 x 35 cm
Oger-Blanchet
4 April 2018, Lot: 82
LL/80623
59 of 74
Smoky City
[Pittsburgh]
1955-1958 (taken) 1970 (ca, print)
Gelatin silver print
22 3/8 x 17 3/8 ins (56.8 x 44.1 cm)
Swann Galleries - New York
Courtesy of Swann Galleries (Auction, Oct 17, 2014, #2361, Lot 172)
LL/55689
60 of 74
Industry of the West
1935 (ca)
Silver bromide print
19 1/4 x 13 1/2 in (48.9 x 34.3 cm)
Swann Galleries - New York
Sale 2208 Lot 75
LL/35600 [Further details available]
61 of 74
Steel Mill, Helwan, Egypt
1959
Gelatin silver print
9 1/2 x 7 1/2 ins (24.1 x 19.1 cm)
Phillips - New York
9th April 2018, NY040118, Photographs & The Enduring Image: The Collection of Dr. Saul Unter, Lot: 70
LL/81902
62 of 74
Meppel, NL
[Lime kilns]
1968
Gelatin silver print
30.2 x 40.8 cm
Bassenge Photography Auctions
Auction 110, 19th - 21st Century Photography, 6 December 2017, Lot: 4113
LL/78562 [Further details available]
63 of 74
Water Tower, Kirkhamgate near Leeds, England
1968
Offset print
40.4 x 31 cm (52 x 40 cm)
Bassenge Photography Auctions
Auction 110, 19th - 21st Century Photography, 6 December 2017, Lot: 4114
LL/78563 [Further details available]
64 of 74
54
[Ratcliffe Power Station]
2000
Gelatin silver print
7 x 7
HackelBury Fine Art Ltd
LL/1612
65 of 74
Ironworks, Mülheim-Meiderich
1960s
Gelatin silver print, solarisation
59 x 49 cm
Bassenge Photography Auctions
Auction 108, Photography, 30 November 2016, Lot: 4345
LL/70679
66 of 74
Photographic montage of industrial images
1950s
Gelatin silver print
25 x 19,5 cm
Bassenge Photography Auctions
19th - 21st Century Photography, 3 June 2015, Lot: 4382
LL/59837
67 of 74
[Under the Banner of the Bolshevik Party is Lennist Central Committee / Forward to New Victories]
1932
Photomontage poster
38 1/2 x 26 1/2 ins, 97 3/4 x 67 1/4 cm
Swann Galleries - New York
Sale 2414, Graphic Design, 10 May 2016, lot: 50
LL/66973
68 of 74
Lathe Operator, Consolidated Aircraft Corporation, Fort Worth, Texas
1942
Digital ink print from a Kodachrome transparency
9 1/2 x 11 ins
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
FSA/OWI Collection, LC-USW36-421
LL/90271
69 of 74
Children play in yard of Ruston home, while Tacoma smelter stack showers area with arsenic and lead residue [Rushton, Washington]
1972, August
Colour photograph
National Archives and Records Administration
Records of the Environmental Protection Agency
LL/50017 [Further details available]
70 of 74
"# 0081 Castellarano. Reggio Emilia, IT"
2000
Chromogenic print
30 x 38 cm (40 x 50.5 cm)
Bassenge Photography Auctions
19th – 21st Century Photography, 7 December 2022, Lot: 4333
LL/124040 [Further details available]
71 of 74
Kraftwerk Wolfsburg
1971 (taken) 1998 (print)
Gelatin silver print
30.7 x 42 cm
Bassenge Photography Auctions
Auction 110, 19th - 21st Century Photography, 6 December 2017, Lot: 4181
LL/78580 [Further details available]
72 of 74
Post war industry
1950s (ca)
Gelatin silver print
35.5 x 27.5 cm
Chiswick Auctions
Lot: 319
LL/115806 [Further details available]
73 of 74
Post war industry
1950s (ca)
Gelatin silver print
35.5 x 27.5 cm
Chiswick Auctions
Lot: 319
LL/115807 [Further details available]
74 of 74
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