#OTD in 1928
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Cover of The New Yorker, March 24, 1928
showing, apparently, one of the enormous natural-gas tanks then standing along the East River
Ilonka Karasz
#TheNewYorkerCover #IlonkaKarasz #industrialsublime

In #MARCH 1943
Illustration by Douglas Hilliker (1891-1986).
Cover of *Railroad Magazine*, March 1943
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #DouglasHilliker #railroads #trainyard #factories #industry #industrialsublime #WW2

#Fortune for #MARCH 1930
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Cover of *Fortune*, March 1930
#FortuneCover #illustration #illustrationart #graphicdesign #railroads #tracks #harbor #industrialsublime

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#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #TedGiavis #GM #GeneralMotors #dieselengines #industrialsublime

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#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #TedGiavis #GM #GeneralMotors #dieselengines #industrialsublime

‘Shown above: Pioneer Portable Rock Crushing Plant; Bucyrus-Erie shovel; Koehring Dumptors; Chicago Pneumatic rotary compressor; Joy rotary drill; Wooldridge “Cobrette” scrapers; Lorain clamshell.’
#illustrationartists #TedGiavis #GeneralMotors #dieselengines #industrialsublime

In #FEBRUARY 1930
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‘Empire Bolts - Nuts – Rivets’
Illustration by E. E. Jevis
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #EEJevis #nuts #bolts #hardware #factories #cityscape #skyscrapers #industrialsublime

In #FEBRUARY 1930
Illustration by Herbert Paus (1880-1946)
for the cover of *Popular Science* for February 1930.
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #HerbertPaus #steelmill #steelworker #PopularScience #industrialsublime

#PembertonMills #LawrenceMA #Massachusetts #illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #factory #industrialsublime

#OTD in 1860
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‘Ruins of the Pemberton Mills at Lawrence, Massachusetts the Morning after the Fall - [From a photograph...]’
Cover of *Harper’s Weekly - A Journal of Civilization*, January 21, 1860
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #industrialsublime

Illustration by Carl G. Evers (1907-2000)
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #CarlEvers #industrialsublime #steelmill #graphicdesign #electricalpower #PhiladelphiaElectricCompany

In #JANUARY 1954
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‘Center of Industry...if you manufacture, sell, or ship... “Set your Site” in Greater Philadelphia’
Philadelphia Electric Company ‘serving the world’s greatest industrial area, Delaware Valley, U.S.A.’
Jan. 1954
#industrialsublime #steelmill #electricalpower

knowledge to produce a bridge like this.’
Eugene Dietzgen Co. 'Precision Equipment & Supplies for #Engineers, #Architects, #Draftsmen, #Surveyors & #Scientists'
#industrialsublime #illustrationart #engineering #suspensionbridges #Dietzgen #EugeneDietzgenCo #infrastructure

In #JANUARY 1938
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‘Hand Picked Logs’
#illustration #illustrationart #industrialsublime #KimberlyClark #papermill #papermaking #printingpaper

seasoned to taste, this liquid steel can be scientifically alloyed to make it cleaner, tougher, stronger... and even stainless. ...’
National Carbon Company, Inc. January 1941.
#illustration #illustrationart #graphicdesign #industrialsublime #steel #NationalCarbonCompany

In #JANUARY 1941
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‘Making Consommé of Steel’
#illustration #illustrationart #industrialsublime
‘In the man-made inferno of an electric arc furnace, 6,500 degrees Fahrenheit converts hard, cold steel into a liquid that can be poured like a consommé. And as consommé can be ➡️

#Fortune for #JANUARY 1941
‘Otto Hagel [1909–1973]: Photo’
Cover of *Fortune*, January 1941
#photography #photographers #colorphotography #landscapephotography #OttoHagel #industrialsublime
#winterlandscape

in the fields of chemical technology and production.’
Illustration by Stanley Meltzoff (1917-2006)
#UnitedEngineers. January 1958.
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #graphicdesign #graphicdesigners #StanleyMeltzoff #welding #industrialsublime #StillLife

The Linde Air Products Company. January 1943.
#illustration #illustrationart #welding #LindeAirProducts #shipbuilding #WW2 #industrialsublime #WarBonds

In #JANUARY 1943
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‘Flames That Cut Time!’
#illustrationart #industrialsublime #shipbuilding #WW2
'Today ships are needed as never before. And today, ships are being built as never before . . . and faster, stronger, and with less steel . . . thanks to welding! ...’

In #JANUARY 1950
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‘Private Eye for Industry’
Illustration by Woodi Ishmael (1914-1995)
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #WoodiIshmael #IndustrialSublime #researchanddevelopment

gives faster wings to America’s planes. ...’
US Stoneware - Akron, Ohio. January 1943.
#illustration #illustrationart #industrialsublime #Tygon #plastics #magnesium #WW2 #DefenseIndustry

In #JANUARY 1943
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‘These Tanks wear TYGON overcoats, inside’
#illustrationart #industrialsublime #Tygon
‘Somewhere in the wastelands of the West rises one of the world’s largest plants for making magnesium - the silvery white metal whose lightness and strength ➡️

‘Albert Edward Sterner was a British-American illustrator and painter’ (Wikipedia) ‘McClure's or McClure's Magazine (1893–1929) was an American illustrated monthly periodical popular at the turn of the 20th century. The magazine is credited with having started the tradition of muckraking journalism (investigative, watchdog, or reform journalism), and helped direct the moral compass of the day. The publishing company briefly got into the film business with McClure Pictures. . . .’ (https://www.wikiwand.com/en/McClure%27s#/Writers_and_editors)

In #JANUARY 1901
‘Stage Memories by Clara Morris’
Cover of *McClure's Magazine*, January 1901
Illustration by Albert Sterner (1863-1946 👉ALT)
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #AlbertSterner #GraphicDesign #McClures #IndustrialSublime

old-fashioned engines of yesterday...’
Chrysler Industrial Engines. January 1950.
#industrialsublime #manufacturing #engines #horsepower #illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #graphicdesign #LarryBaranovic #designer #airbrush

only gears, but a host of other metal parts and articles can have their wearing surfaces hardened . . . exactly where hardness is needed to resist wear. ...’
The #LindeAirProducts Company. January 1942
#illustration #illustrationart #graphicdesign #industrialsublime

in the United States, no trouble or expense was spared to add the most modern innovations of the distiller’s art to the 75-year skill and experience of this famous old house. ...’
December 1934 (plant closed 1979)
#illustrationart #HiramWalker #distillery #industrialsublime

In #DECEMBER 1934
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‘Hiram Walker & Sons
Now complete and in operation
The World’s Largest and Most Modern Distillery’
#illustration #illustrationart #HiramWalker #distillery #industrialsublime
‘From the moment that Hiram Walker & Sons decided to build a distillery ➡️

Pennsylvania Railroad from 1925 through 1958. ... Depicted here is PRR engine #6110, a T-1 (4-4-4-4) "Duplex" built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works during April of 1942 & retired in December of 1953 ...’
#industrialdesigners #railroads #locomotives #industrialsublime

Image from https://www.fulltable.com/vts/f/fortune/ills/sheeler/b.htm

indeed - and in the spirit of his age - here, with oil on canvas, presents aviation as the consummate achievement of human industry.
#CharlesSheeler #americanart #precisionism #IndustrialSublime #aviation #aircraft