Industrial Revolution Blacksmith pictures?

[Archie Zietman]

Hello.
Does anyone have pictures of blacksmiths from the Industrial Revolution, such as chain makers and suchlike? Methinks I remember someone posting some pictures of some, but can't find them.
Thanks,
Archie :D

[ThomasPowers]

Of course they would have to be engravings as the camera was a bit after the revolution...

Diderot's Encyclopedia has a lot of them from the end of the 18th century.

Thomas

[Archie Zietman]

maybe it
s more industrial, though not actually revolutionary:D ...they were definitely photos, though. So industrial late 19th early 20th century smiths.

[Gary]

I have found old pictures of blacksmiths and their shops at the Library of Congress site, American Memory from the Library of Congress - Home Page, and just doing a search for blacksmith or historic blacksmith photos on Google.

[ThomasPowers]

From the Wikipedia "The period of time covered by the Industrial Revolution varies with different historians. Eric Hobsbawm held that it 'broke out' in the 1780s and was not fully felt until the 1830s or 1840s,[2] while T.S. Ashton held that it occurred roughly between 1760 and 1830 (in effect the reigns of George III, The Regency, and George IV)."[3]

Now for late 19th century, early 20th century pics of smiths and shops may I commend to you the Blacksmith's Calendar which is full of good pics of smiths and shops from that period. The Library of Congress is a great source too.

(A bit early for the camera especially fo smithing as the long exposure times often required that the people were held in braces and clamps so they didn't move and spoil the picture. Now there is a famous set of pics from that french guy(?) who did all the shots of things in motion that is two nude smiths using sledges...)

Thomas