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Advert for Aertex athletic vest 1932
Aertex for buoyant health! The innumerable air cells of the wonderful Aertex Cellular weave keep the body refreshed with a constant supply of vital oxygen

Bonzo Suffers From Overwork by George Studdy
Bonzo Suffers From Overwork. He is fast asleep after a rummage through his mistresss sewing basket. Date: 1923

Young China members
Young female students in the straight blue cotton dresses of Young China, also known as the Chinese Youth Party Date: 1937-1945

Levant and Tree cotton
Gossypium herbaceum (Levant cotton) and Gossypium arboreum (tree cotton) Date: 1839

Yunnan cotton workers
Some of the 600 young Chinese women employed in the Yunnan Cotton Spinning and Weaving Company, pictured during their hour long break in an eight hour working day

Submarine mines, WW1
How submarine mines look when laid on the seabed. Each one contains a charge of gun cotton, and explodes on contact. Date: 1914

Tatler front cover, June 1963
Front cover of The Tatler magazine for June 1963, featuring a model wearing a flame-printed cotton shift lined with silk with a rouleau tie by Spagnoli

A tale of Clarks O. N. T. Spool Cotton
A tale of Clarks O.N.T. Spool Cotton. Mournful the tale, and sad the sight, o, shed a tear for Joness plight. His clothes were new but ah, the cotton theyd sewed them with, alas was rotten

Putnam Oil & Fertilizer Company Ginnery
Putnam Oil & Fertilizer Company Cotton Ginnery - Eatonton, Georgia, USA Date: 1907

London Cotton Garden
Useful chunks of building stone lying about at Cotton Garden, Westminster - and some houses badly in need of repair... Date: 1804

Gas masks of 1915
Photograph showing two gas masks in 1915, (above); a cotton-wool pad of April 1915 and (below); Hypo Helmet gas-mask of November

Francois Richard-Lenoir
FRANCOIS RICHARD-LENOIR French manufacturer who prospered immensely until ruined by a tax on cotton during the Napoleonic Wars. Date: 1765 - 1839

Chr. Phil. Oberkampf - 4
CHRISTOPHE-PHILIPPE OBERKAMPF German-born manufacturer who introduced important technology into the French cotton industry. Date: 1738 - 1815

Chr. Phil. Oberkampf - 3
CHRISTOPHE-PHILIPPE OBERKAMPF German-born manufacturer who introduced important technology into the French cotton industry. Date: 1738 - 1815

Samuel Mather
SAMUEL MATHER American churchman, son and biographer of Cotton Mather. Date: 1706 - 1785

Huxinting Teahouse (Huxinting Chashi), Shanghai, China. The pavilion was built in 1784 by cotton merchants as a brokerage house. In 1855 it became, and remains, a quintessential Chinese teahouse

Indian man cleaning cotton Date: circa 1910s

Design for Woven Textile in grey and beige. Colour Pencil on tracing paper. Silver Studio. 1937

Gossypium barbadense, sea cotton
One of the 162 decorative panels depicting flora that form the ceiling of the Central Hall of the Natural History Museum, London. Showing Gossypium barbadense, sea cotton

Onopordum acanthium, cotton thistle
One of the 36 decorative panels depicting flora that form the ceiling of the North Hall at the Natural History Museum, London

Dendroica castanea, bay-breasted warbler
Plate 69 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1827-30), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Decorative ceiling panels in the Natural History Museums Ce
Coffee, tobacco and cotton - three of the 162 plant designs which form the ceiling decoration of the Central Hall. The plants are of economic or medicinal importance

Bombax heptaphyllum, silk-cotton tree
Illustration from the Fleming Indian Drawings Collection, 1800. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Adult ticks from domestic cattle in East Africa
These ticks are engorged with their hosts blood. To minimise the risk of drying out, they are plugged with cotton wool and usually inverted inside jars of spirit

Gopypium beligiosum, nankin cotton
Plate 9 by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928). Held at the Natural History Museum, London

Bombax pentandrum, silk cotton
Illustration by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928). Held at the Natural History Museum, London

Gossypium barbadense, cotton
A photograph of one of the decorative ceiling panels from the roof of the Natural History Museums Central Hall. Show open bolls and flowers of the Gossypium barbadense, cotton plant

Gossypium arboreum, tree cotton
Duchess of Beauforts Hortus Siccus, 133: 67 (Sloane Herbarium)

Sayornis phoebe, eastern phoebe
Plate 120 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1831-34), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Cotton winding sheet
Collected during the archaeological excavation at Christ Church, Spitalfields, London, 1984-1986

Gossypium acuminatum, cotton
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Richard de Wallingford measuring a circular instrument
" Richard de Wallingford measuring a circular instrument with a couple of compasses. Illustration of the manuscript " Cotton Claudius". Gothic art. Miniature Painting. UNITED KINGDOM

Fabrica de tejidos de algod󮠥n Moyᠤe Merc項
" Fabrica de tejidos de algod󮠥 n Moyᠤ e Merc頹 Sala (" Cotton fabric in Moyᠤ e Merc頹 Sala", late 19th c.). Modernism."

Cotton shipping from Charleston, South Carolina. Scene in the trade port. Colored illustration published in Leslies magazine on 16th March 1868. Engraving

Family with Holmess - Moulmein - With Cal and Mary Holmes. Cal was Chief Officer of the Steele Companies of Burma, including teak, china, cotton, and rice milling an old Burma hand Date: 1951

J & P Coats Sewing Cotton
Late 19th Century Showcard - J & P Coats Sewing Cotton late 19th century

Cotton Mule Spinning
Cotton mule spinning Date: 1852

Picking cotton. Photograph shows several people of all ages sitting on mats in a courtyard separating cotton from the plant

Horticultural Hall. Worlds Industrial & Cotton Centennial Exposition at New Orleans, La. Date 1884. Horticultural Hall. Worlds Industrial & Cotton Centennial Exposition at New Orleans, La. Date 1884

Ferguslie Thread Works of J & P Coats Ltd, Paisley, Scotland Date: circa 1920s

New York cotton exchange. Date c1884 July 2

A little spinner in a Georgia Cotton Mill. Location: Georgia. Date 1909 January

Spinners in a cotton mill. See 2134(?). Date 1911?

A doffer boy in Globe Cotton Mill, Augusta, Ga. Location: Augusta, Georgia. Date 1909 January

A little spinner in Globe Cotton Mill. Augusta, Ga. The overseer admitted she was regularly employed. Location: Augusta, Georgia. Date 1909 January

Composite photograph of child laborer made from cotton mill children. Date 1913

General View of, 2 Spinning Room in Indian Orchard Cotton Mill, Indian Orchard, Mass. Location: Indian Orchard, Massachusetts. Date 1916 June 29

A picture of a cotton field

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