Refinery Collection (#4)

Medinoil Lubricating Oil
A large enamel sign advertising Medinoil - Motor Lubricating Oil. Manufactured in England by Medina Refinery Limited of London SE8. *EDITORIAL USE ONLY*

Bench 30 at Abadan
Abadan is a city on Abadan Island in the Khuzestan province in southwestern Iran, close to the border with Iraq. Rich oil fields were discovered in the area in the early 20th century

Agricultural land in the foreground and oil refinery at Rhoscrowther beyond, Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom, Europe

A Silver Refinery, 1556, (1917)
A Silver Refinery, 1556. From De re metallica by Georg Bauer (1494-1555) (Latinized: Georgius Agricola), is a book cataloguing the art of mining, refining, and smelting metals, published in 1556

Sugar. Vacuum pan, 1866. A print from Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts, Mechanical and Chemical, Manufactures, Mining, and Engineering, edited by Charles Tomlinson, Volume II, Virtue and Co, London, 1866

Sugar Mill and Steam Engine, 1866

Clarifying sugar cane juce, Annam, Vietnam, 1922. An Annamese peasant ladles raw juice into copper pans, where it is mixed with ashes, clay, lime or another refining material

Tree growing out old sugar estate chimney, Jamaica, c1905. Artist: Adolphe Duperly & Son
Tree growing out old sugar estate chimney, Jamaica, c1905. Illustration from Picturesque Jamaica, by Adolphe Duperly & Son, (England, c1905)

Cubans Burning Refineries, (1870s), 1920s
Cubans burning a sugar refinery. During the two wars the Cubans burned many refineries to deprive revenue to the government of Spain

Sugar making at the Counterslip refinery, Bristol, 1873. Artist: WB Murray
Sugar making at the Counterslip refinery, Bristol, 1873. A print from the Illustrated London News, (29 November 1873)

The sugar industry, Richmond River, New South Wales, Australia, 1886. Artist: JR Ashton
The sugar industry, Richmond River, New South Wales, Australia, 1886. Wood engraving from Picturesque Atlas of Australasia, Vol I, by Andrew Garran

Sugar refinery, Southampton, England, which opened in 1851. The boiler house (left foreground), engine house (centre left) and stove and retort house (centre and centre right)

Interior of a sugar refinery, 1860. Metal cones are being filled with liquid syrup which will crystallise to form sugar loaves

La Sucrerie, Ham, Somme, northern France, WW1
La Sucrerie (sugar refinery), Ham, Somme, northern France -- taking back lost territory during the First World War. 1917

Sugar mill machinery
Diagrams showing part of the elevation and plan of an improved sugar refinery by Edward Woollery Esq of Jamaica. Date: 18th century

Sugar Refinery. Illustration by Jan van Grevenbroeck or Grevenbroch (1731-1807) in Treaty of uses and customs of the time, s. XVIII. Early Modern Era. Watercolour. ITALY. VENETO. Venice. Museo Correr

Mexico. Tula. Refinery
MEXICO. HIDALGO. Tula. Oil refinery. Toltec art. Sculpture

Caspian Sea Shore - oil refinery near Krasnovodsk town - oil pollution along the water edge. Turkmenistan. April

Africa, Namibia, Walvis Bay. Salt Pan Refinery
Namibia, Walvis Bay. Salt Pan Refinery

INDUSTRY: OIL REFINERY. Railroad cars lined up to receive cargoes gasoline from a refinery, to ship to allied units fighting in World War II. Photograph, c1944

PALESTINE: OIL TANKS, 1937. Oil tanks of the Iraq Petroleum Company in Haifa, Palestine. Photograph, 1937

IRAQ PETROLEUM COMPANY. Refinery installation of the Iraq Petroleum Company, 5 miles south of Kirkuk, Iraq. Photograph, 1932

Vapor pump with vertical boiler
Antique illustration of a vapor pump with vertical boiler

Vertical wall steam plunger
Illustration of a Vertical wall steam plunger

Sugar Refining In Boston
Illustration of the Revere sugar refinery in Boston, Massachusetts circa 1870. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Oil Refinery
Illustration of a McKinley Oil Company of New York refinery in Oil Creek, Pennsylvania circa 1880. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Bombs Dropping
500 pound bombs dropped from a US Army Air Force Flying Fortress bomber fall towards an oil refinery at Leghorn. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

OKLAHOMA: OIL REFINERY. The Mid-Continent Refinery, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Photographed by John Vachon, c1943

OKLAHOMA: OIL REFINERY. Employees at Mid-Continent Refinery, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Photographed by John Vachon, c1943

Aliens visiting a nuclear power station

Refinery (Top); Carrying the Oil (Bottom), Canada, Nineteenth Century Engraving

Refining saltpetre, illustration from the Encyclopedia by Denis Diderot
XIR156859 Refining saltpetre, illustration from the Encyclopedia by Denis Diderot (1713-84) (engraving) by French School, (18th century); Private Collection; French, out of copyright

Oil industry on James Bond Oil Field, Azerbaijan

Oil Pipe
29th April 1958: A section of pipe frames the crude oil distillation unit at the BP (British Petroleum) oil refinery in Aden. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

PENNSYLVANIA: TITUSVILLE. View of the New York and Liverpool Petroleum Company refinery at Titusville, Pennsylvania. Wood engraving, American, 1865

HAWAII: SUGAR MILL, c1915. A train filled with sacks of sugar leaving a mill in Hawaii. Photograph, c1915

PENNSYLVANIA: OIL, c1865. The Oil Regions of Pennsylvania - Pit Hole City, Venango County, Pennsylvania. Drawing by Theodore R. Davis, c1865

CALIFORNIA: STANDARD OIL. Panoramic view of the Standard Oil Company in Richmond, California. Photograph, 1913

HAWAII: SUGAR REFINERY. A load of sugar cane arriving at a refinery in Hawaii. Photograph, c1915

HAWAII: SUGAR REFINERY. The delivery of bagasse, the by-product of sugar cane after the juice is extracted, to a room in a sugar refinery in Hawaii. Photograph, c1915

OIL REFINERY, 19th CENTURY. Refinery at Oil City, Pennsylvania, late 19th century

ILLINOIS: OIL REFINERY. Wood River Refinery of the Standard Oil Company in Illinois. Photographed c1908

PENNSYLVANIA: OIL REFINERY. Oil refinery at Erie, Pennsylvania. Stereograph, c1870-80

Sugar Refinery
1st November 1913: A sugar refinery in Natal, South Africa, with Indian workers arriving. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Santa Laura Saltpeter Works in Atacama Desert
The abandoned Santa Laura Saltpeter Works in Atacama Desert, TarapacAa Region, Chile. The abandoned Santa Laura Saltpeter Works in Atacama Desert, TarapacAa Region, Chile

Sugar Refinery in Usak, Turkey Date: circa 1935

Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies - Oil Refineries at Pointe-a-Pierre Date: circa late 1930s

refinery dusk Rodeo California
Refinery at dusk. Rodeo, California

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