Image Index

A. Laidlaw Manufacturing Co./Chipman-Holton Knitting Co.
Laidlaw Manufacturing Company, c. 1892, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Laidlaw photo, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Chipman-Holton Knitting Co. drawing, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

American Can Company, 1904
American Can plant, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Arthur E. Snelgrove Casket Manufactory, c. 1850s
Snelgrove ad, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Barbers, Oscar Peterson, & Incidents of Racism in Hamilton
Barbers ad in the Canadian Observer, ca. 1910 | view image
Oscar Peterson in 1947 by D.C. Langford, Library and Archives Canada | view image
Headline from Toronto Star, May 5 1951, Toronto Star Archives, Toronto Public Library | view image

Barton and Sherman: A New Life
Polish Children | view image
Armenian Children, McMaster University, Labour Studies | view image

Baynes Carriage Company (Air Liquide)
Wholesale carriage advertisement graphic, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Berlin Machine Works, 1908
Berlin logo, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Berlin machinery, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Boat Builders
H. Bastien Boatworks, c. 1910, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Bastein Boatworks interior, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Shoreline, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Bell Telephone Exchange, 1890
Worker at Bell 1900s, McMaster University, Labour Studies | view image
Switchboard operators, McMaster University, Labour Studies | view image

Brown Boggs
Brown Boggs plant drawing, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Brown Boggs geared power press, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Brown Boggs power hammer, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Burlington Glass Company, 1874
Burlington Glass graphic, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Burlington Glass certificate, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Burrow, Stewart and Milne Factory
Burrow, Stewart & Milne, c. 1892, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Burrow, Stewart & Milne graphic, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Canada Sewing Machine Manufactory, c. 1860
R.M. Wanzer and Co. graphic | view image
Canada Sewing Machine Manufactory, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Wanzer ad sewing machine, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Wanzer ad lady sewing, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Wanzer ad first prize machine, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Canada Steel Company, 1910
Canada Steel Company plant drawing, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Worker at Drophammer Forgee Slater or Burlington Steel 1950s, McMaster University, Labour Studies | view image
Canada Steel Company ad, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Canadian Cottons
Cleaning raw cotton at Canadian Cottons, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Canadian National Railway, 1931
CNR Station, Simon Orpana | view image
Grand Trunk Railway, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Lower Stuart Street, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Canadian Otis Elevator Company Ltd., 1902
Canadian Otis lift| view image
Canadian Otis worker with electrics| view image

Canadian Westinghouse
Westinghouse Women Workers, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Westinghouse Workers 1910, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Westinghouse Engraving of Building, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Westinghouse plant, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Westinghouse logo, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Westinghouse and Woodlands Park, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Picketers in front of Westinghouse, 1946, McMaster University, Ready House | view image

Carr Fastener Company, 1921
Carr Fastener plant, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Casa d'Italia
Dopolavoro, Casa D'Itaila c. 1937, P. Ferri | view image

Cataract Power Company, c. 1896
Cataract Power Co. plant | view image
Cataract Power street facade| view image
Cataract station, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Cataract turbine, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

City Coach Factory, 1844
City Coach site, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
City Coach ad | view image

Clinton Street
Celebration of the Feast of St. Anthony, M.H.S.O | view image

Coca-Cola, 1929
Newspaper clipping about coke plant | view image
Coke truck, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Coffield Washer Company Ltd., c. 1920
Coffield Washer ad, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
A Coffield washer | view image

Custom House / Workers Arts & Heritage Centre
Naples Macaroni Company, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Custom House Engraving, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Nine Hours League Parade, McMaster University, Labour Studies | view image

Dan Black's Club House
Dan Black’s Advertisement, Sutherland's City Directory, 1870-71, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Deering Harvester, 1902
International Harvester plant drawing, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Deering car ad, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Deering car advertisement, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Farm machinery graphic | view image
Harvester ad, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Diamond Flint Glass Company, 1891
Diamond Flint Glass, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Dominion Steel Castings Company (Dofasco), 1912
Dofasco Grinder Poses with Huge Iron Casting, McMaster University, Labour Studies | view image
Dominion Plant Drawing, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Labour Day Parade, 1946, McMaster University, Labour Studies | view image
Dominion logo, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Dominion washroom, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Dominion galvanizer, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Dominion conveyer, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Dofasco tin flippers, McMaster University, Labour Studies | view image

E. & C. Gurney Foundry
E. & C. Gurney Foundry, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

E. Van Allen & Company, c. 1890
E. Van Allen and Co. Factory graphic | view image

Eastwood Park
Naval parade on the old Revetment Wall, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Empire Foundry, c. 1864
Empire Foundry, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Family Survival
Preparing tomato paste on a warm summer's day, McMaster University, Labour Studies | view image

Firestone Tire & Rubber Company of Canada, 1923
Firestone from air, looking north, McMaster University, Labour Studies | view image
Firestone advertisement, McMaster University, Labour Studies | view image
Firestone workers with tire, McMaster University, Labour Studies | view image
Group of Workers at Firestone in 1922, McMaster University, Labour Studies | view image
Man cutting rubber at Tirebuilder Firestone, McMaster University, Labour Studies | view image
Working at Firestone, McMaster University, Labour Studies | view image

Fratellanza Hall
Feast of Madonna del Monte, 1931, M.H.S.O | view image

Freeman Block
Freeman Block, c. 1892, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Frost Wire Fence Company, 1904
Frost Wire Fence plant drawing, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Frost Wire Fence ad | view image
Canadian Made Wire advertisement | view image

Gartshore & Cowie Iron Works, 1870
Gartshore and Cowie Factory, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Gartshore Cast Iron Pipe, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Rolling Mills, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Gartshore graphic | view image

George Morton Jr., Letter Carrier & Civil Rights Advocate
Letter Carriers of Hamilton Group Photograph, 1908, Library and Archives Canada | view image

Glendale Spinning Mills, 1916
Glendale engraving | view image

Great Western Railway Works and Lower Stuart Street
GWR Yards, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
View southwest from the Bay Street Bridge, c. 1892, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Great Western Rolling Mill, 1864
1906 photo of rolling mill crew, McMaster University, Labour Studies | view image

Hamilton Blast Furnace Company (Stelco), 1895
Stelco open hearth drawing, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Stelco logo, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Stelco interior, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Stelco exterior, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Stelco blast furnace workers, McMaster University, Labour Studies | view image

Hamilton Bridge Works Company, 1894
Bridge Works travelling crane, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Hamilton Bridge Works plant drawing, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Hamilton Bridge Works bridge lifting, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Hamilton Bridge Works ad | view image

Hamilton Coach Factory, 1842
Carriage-Spring Manufactory Ad | view image

Hamilton Cotton Company, 1880
Hamilton Cotton Co. plant drawing, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Hamilton Cotton Co. ad, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Hamilton Dairy & Creamery Company, 1907
Hamilton Dairy graphic, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Hamilton Gas Light Company
Hamilton Gas Light building, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Hamilton Gas Light site, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Hamilton Glass Company, 1864
Hamilton Glass jars, WAHC | view image

Hamilton Hydro-Electric System
Hamilton Hydro-Electric, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Hydro-Electric ad, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Hamilton Hydro Substation, P. Stirling | view image
Hydro-Electric site, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Hamilton Industrial Works, 1878
Hamilton Industrial Works invoice | view image
Hamilton Industrial Works site - Bertozzi | view image

Hamilton Labor Temple
Hamilton Labour Temple, Dec. 1948, McMaster University, Labour Studies | view image
Allan Studholme, Ontario Archives | view image
Memorial Plaque | view image

Hamilton Spectator, 1846
Hamilton Spectator Building, Hamilton Spectator, Archives | view image
Man at type writer | view image
Three type-setters working | view image

Hamilton Tool Manufacturing Company, 1872
Tool Manufactoring, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Hamilton Tool Site, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Hamilton Waterworks (Hamilton Museum of Steam and Technology), 1859
Waterworks exterior engraving | view image
Waterworks interior engraving | view image

Hamilton Wheel Works, 1879
Hamilton Wheel Works, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Hamilton Wheel Works engraving, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Hamilton Wheel Works ad | view image

Harper-Presnail Cigar Company, 1913
Harper Employees, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Harper-Presnail Cigar Company Site, Rob Kristofferson | view image

Hoepfner Refining Company, 1899
Hoepfner Sovereign Potters, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Atkins Saw Advertisement, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Atkins logo, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Hoover Suction Sweeper Company of Canada (Stadium Mall), 1919
Hoover plant, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Hoover plant and ad, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Hoover advertisement | view image

House of Refuge
House of Refuge, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Ice Harvesting
Cutting ice on the bay, McMaster University, Labour Studies | view image
Ice Harvesting near the foot of Bay St., c. 1890s, Betty Cummer Aikman | view image
Ice Harvesters, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Imperial Cotton Company
Plant of the Imperial Cotton Company, 1913, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Imperial Cotton Ad, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Imperial Cotton Company logo, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Dominion Belting Company, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Imperial Logo, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Imperial plant drawing, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Dominion Belting Company plant, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Imperial plant, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Industrial Unionism (Steelworkers Hall)
Workers on the picket line | view image

Julia Washington Berry, Toll Keeper
1881 Hamilton Census, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

John Calder & Company, 1880
John Calder & Company, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Calder Building graphic | view image

John McPherson & Company, 1867
McPherson Factory, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Knights of Labor Co-operative Store/Larkin Hall
Knights of Labour Procession, King Street, Hamilton, National Archives of Canada | view image

L., S. & P. Sawyer and Company, 1856
Sawyer-Massey plant drawing, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Sawyer machine on wheels, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Malcolm & Souter Furniture Company Ltd., 1885
Malcolm & Souter group photo of workers | view image
Malcolm & Souter factory | view image
Malcolm & Souter table | view image
Malcolm & Souter furniture ad | view image

Mrs. Wheeler's Boardinghouse
Typical 19th century workers’ housing, P. Stirling | view image

National Steel Car Company Ltd., 1912
Car builders at National steel car in 1944, McMaster University, Labour Studies | view image
National Steel car frid ad, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
National Steel Car motor trucks ad, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Old Port Hamilton
Foot of James St., early 1900s, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Old Port Hamilton Docks, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Old Port Hamilton, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Oliver Chilled Plow, 1910
Oliver plant graphic, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
An Oliver plow | view image

Osborne-Killey Manufacturing Company, 1884
Osborne-Killey pump ad, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Osborne-Killey building, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Osborne-Killey fire engine ad, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Peller Brewing Company, 1947
A Peller worker, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Peller workers, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Peller plant, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Peller employees examining machine, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Playhouse Theatre
Playhouse Theatre, 1940, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Feeding hungry strikers, 1946, McMaster University, Labour Studies | view image

Princess Street
Armenian Children, McMaster University, Labour Studies | view image
Armenian moulder at International Harvester, M.H.S.O | view image

Procter & Gamble, 1915
Procter and Gamble logo | view image
Crisco logo | view image
Truck unloading P&G products: White Naptha, Lenox and Gold Soap bars, Crisco, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Procter & Gamble plant, aerial view, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Procter & Gamble plant, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Recreation on the Bay
Skating on the bay, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Jolly Good Fellow's club, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Sanford, McInnes and Company, 1862
Sanford Building, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Sanford Graphic, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Sherman Avenue
Preparing to deliver relief baskets from Sherman police station, December 1914, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Spring Brewery, 1842
Spring Brewery, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Grant's Spring Brewery at Bay St. 1929, McMaster University, Labour Studies | view image
Hamilton Spring Brewery Ad, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Standard Underground Cable, 1911
Standard Underground plant drawing, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Standard Underground Cable text ad, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Standard Underground cable spools, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Steeltown
Building No. 1 open hearth at Stelco, McMaster University, Labour Studies | view image
Sheet-Mill crew at Stelco, McMaster University, Labour Studies | view image
Steeltown factory, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Street Railway Strike 1906
The crowd attacks, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Studebaker Corporation, 1948
Workers at Studebaker in 1950s, McMaster University, Labour Studies | view image
Studebaker cars and factory, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway, 1895
TH&B station, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Historical Rail Station, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
TH&B ad, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Tuckett & Billings Tobacco Manufactory, 1866
Child Labour at Tucketts in 1910, McMaster University, Labour Studies | view image
Tuckett ad, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Tuckett Manufactory graphic, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Tuckett Tobacco, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Tucketts Tobacco casing room workers, McMaster University, Labour Studies | view image
A mid-day scene at Tuckett Tobacco Factory Works | view image

Union Drawn Steel, 1905
Union Drawn Steel factory drawing, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Union Drawn Steel factory interior, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Union Drawn Steel photo ad, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

W.W. Grant Sail Loft, 1869
Grant Sail Loft | view image
Grant Sail Loft on Water, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
Grant Sail ad, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

Wallace Barnes
Wallace Barnes Punch Press Operators, McMaster University, Labour Studies | view image
Wallace Barnes factory drawing, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image

W.G. Dunn and Company, c. 1875
Canada Coffee and Spice Mills graphic | view image

Whitehern
Whitehern, Hamilton Public Library, Local History and Archives | view image
MacQuesten Graphic, Toronto Public Library, Canadian History Historical Picture Collection | view image

Williamson & Company Vinegar Works, 1870
Williamson & Company Vinegar Works, Frank Jones | view image

Woodlands Park
Members of Local 504 Gather at Woodlands Park, McMaster University, Ready House | view image
Local 504 March, McMaster University, Labour Studies | view image

Workers' Housing
Skunks' Hollow, c. 1910, Yummy and Sue | view image

Workers' Suburbs (Union Park), c. 1900
Building a bench, McMaster University, Labour Studies | view image

W.R. Carpenter Canada Ltd., 1942
W.R. Carpenter plant | view image