Industrial Culture Aficionado Pillows

Personnel and Admin is alright, but you can't beat the foundry for good tea.

"Some day, son, all this will be yours. ... Actually, you know what? You can have it now."

Motivation to work

"Well..I think the old Thermograph machine I rescued from work goes a treat with our kitchen units."

"It's a mixed-use facility: retail space, low-rent housing, luxury apartments, and an area set aside for making steel."

"You know, it really wasn’t that bad."

U.S. Manufacturing - Good News & Bad News

"Our 'Invest in American' program is saving money by buying orange safety cones from China."

'Once we switch to information processing, just imagine how much data this baby will handle.'

The strong Canadian dollar is bad for the Canadian exporting manufacturers.

Memorials of The Great Exhibition - 1851. No. V. - Theatrical depression.

'Someday, all of this liability exposure will be yours!'

The fragrance of prosperity "Think of it not as pollution, but as the fragrance of prosperity."

"Our carbon footprint has been very, very good to us."

Steel Works - 'How the devil did all this go down 7 3/8 today?'

'On this site will be erected a beautiful new twelve story drilling platform that will pump 10,000 barrels of oil a day.'

"I see that you worked as a forklift operator in India."

All set for the summer holiday!

Artist in industrial environment paints a butterfly.

'The meek will inherit coal mine safety violations, and the human health and the death toll.'

"And they say this country doesn't make anything anymore!"

"You threw the wrench again, didn't you?"

'It was designed for people who don't want any visitors.'

Lightbulb Maker

'Brewers Men'

"I don't know why other countries won't buy our products...After all, they made them!"

ECO gallery

Henry Ford sculptures

Factory Smoke

Surgical Appliance Factory

Steel fabricator

'Some of you were wondering, 'what, exactly, does Smedgwick, Refining and Smelting do'?'

'What did we do before China made everything?'

"I thought that open-hearth furnace was a little too open."

"And this, gentlemen, is what one of our typical American workers looks before he gets fired!"