Material Collection (page 10)

Colour plate, Art Gout Beaute, 1924

Fabric design, Art Gout Beaute, 1929
Fabric design for a crepe de chine small flowered print in yellow, brown, grey and cream on a black background, Art Gout Beaute, 1929. 1929

Butchers shop display, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
A Prestcold refrigerated display cabinet at C R Harris Butchers in Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, with advertising material for Birds Eye and Frood foods. 1965

Co-Op Store, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
Interior view of part of the Co-Operative Department Store at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, showing clothing and rolls of material on display. 1957

Fulling Stocks at Gotts Woollen Factory, Leeds, Yorkshire
Fulling Stocks at Gotts Woollen Factory, Leeds, where newly woven material is being cleaned and thickened. Date: 1844

Royal Wedding 1934 - wedding dress fabric
A silver bride - the design of Princess Marinas wedding dress. A reproduction of the fabric design used for the wedding dress of Princess Marina of Greece for her marriage to Prince George

Royal wedding 1893 - the wedding dress material
The pattern of the wedding dress was selected by the bride herself, Princess May of Teck(later the Duchess of York, then Queen Mary)(1867-1953)

Advertisement for A Wilmart silk, Paris
Advertisement for A Wilmart silk, Place Vendome, Paris, France. Featuring a woman with rolls of colourful patterned silks. 1924

Elderly Native American women weaving baskets Date: 1909

Raw material - Recruits for the St. Georges Wesleyan School
A group of ragamuffin children before recruitment to the boy scouts. Date: 12th March 1910

Betsimisaraka Girl from Madagascar
A very striking Betsimisaraka Girl from Madagascar wearing a very attractive printed wrap Date: 1910

Brookes Ltd. of Halifax - Road building Materials
Stall for the European granite of Brookes Ltd. of Halifax at the 3rd International Road Congress Exhibition, London - June 1913

Collection of Northwestern Indian Baskets Date: 1910

Clothes shopping, 1935
A group of ladies inspect the contents of a shop window during the January sales. Date: 1935

Indigenous American Baby in a papoose
Indigenous Americans Baby in a decorated papoose Date: circa 1910

Captured German engineer park, Western Front, WW1
The entrance to a German engineer park, containing much material, captured by the Canadians during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Workers Reply to General Sir Douglas Haig, WW1
Workers Reply to General Sir Douglas Haig -- the wording of a Resolution passed at the Trade Union Conference at Caxton Hall on 18 July 1916

Lady in geometrically patterned red and white dress
Lady in a geometrically patterned red and white dress, advertising AGB cotton fabrics. 1924

Trucks crossing Orange River, Upington, South Africa, WW1
Trucks carrying railway material across the Orange River at Upington, South Africa (Northern Cape), during the First World War. Date: February 1915

Scouts with their Model T Ford
Two boy scouts of Troop 176 of Leavenworth, Kansas loading their Model T Ford with scrap metal. The car hauled much salvage material and enabled the Troop to buy War Bonds. circa 1940s

Tonik fabric advertisement, 1962
Advertisement for Tonik, the aristocratic mohair cloth by Dormeuil. Its crisp, impeccable, superbly comfortable qualities make a Tonik suit the ideal thing to step aboard a glamorous Pullman train

Scout washing on camp
A Scout in camp washing himself before morning inspection. The boys themselves have built the washstand cum clothes dryer for the material available on the campsite

Malaysia - Woman wrapped in local cloth
Malaysia - Local woman wrapped in traditional patterned cloth. Date: circa 1910s

Material / Cloth merchant - Algeria
Material/Cloth merchant - Algeria Date: circa 1910s

Cressets and Street Lamp
Paris streets illuminated by lamps of slowly-burning material placed in strategic locations : the nightwatchmen carry cressets using similar technology Date: 16th century

Boyles hydrostatic apparatus for weighing materia medica 1691

Two Victorian sisters and their brother in studio setting
Two Victorian sisters and their young brother pose in the photographers studio. They are all looking rather glum, or bored

Middle-aged Victorian woman in a crinoline dress
A middle-aged Victorian woman in a crinoline dress made of satin material

Butterick Building, New York where Butterick Patterns are folded

Drying cloth in Kashgar, western China
Pieces of cloth hung out to dry in Kashgar, western China

Admiralty Islands - decorated gourds
Decorated gourds from the Admiralty Islands, New Guinea. Pen & Ink with watercolour wash drawings by Raymond Sheppard

Abstract picture of tubes & swirls
Abstract painting of tubes, horns & swirls by Raymond Sheppard

Ceramic Jar of the Navaho & Apache
Decorated ceramic jar from the southwestern United States - from a Navaho & Apache tribal pueblo. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Hand Compositor receiving spacing materials
Reserve supplies of spacing material are brought to the hand compositor so that his time is not wasted in journeys to the store at the Lund Humphries Printing Works. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Drapery Store at Orphan Homes of Scotland, Bridge of Weir
The drapery store at the Orphan Homes of Scotland, Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire. The Homes, laid out as a village of cottage homes, were opened in 1878 by William Quarrier

Horrockses fabric advertisement
Advertisement for Horrockses textiles, the main manufacturer of printed cotton for clothing and furnishings in the 1950s

Horrockses cotton advertisement
Advertisement for Horrockses, the greatest name in cotton and the leading manufacturer of printed cotton textiles for clothing and furnishing during the 1950s

Heat-resistant asbestos
A photograph taken for a commercial client, demonstrating the heat-resisting properties of Asbestos, long before the modern dangers of the material were recognised. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

The Wool Shop. Two little girls look through different loops and rolls of wool, twine and ribbon in a Wool Shop, which is also selling items of clothing and knitting needles

Jardin D Acclimatation - Bois de Boulogne in Paris
The French set up the Jardin D Acclimatation in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris and brought in examples of native material culture and traditional costume

Clydella Advertisement
Three " sporty boyees" stroll together enjoying the fact that their shirts and pyjamas are made from soft, warm and durable Clydella material

Shopping at the Sales, 1930
Illustration showing a riotous scene at a fashionable clothing store as a number of female shoppers fight to acquire their next purchase. The original caption for this image was The Material-istic Age

Platts Spinning Machine
Cotton manufacture at the International Exhibition: Platts Self-Acting Mule or Cottonspinning machine

Crystal Palce / Brick Beam
3 diagrams showing the tests undertaken to establish which material, Roman or Portland cement, would provide the stronger hollow bricks for use in the exhibition beams

Paris Fashions for May 1869
Engraving showing fashionable summer dresses for Paris, May 1869. The dresses were (from left to right): Toilette de Promenade

Sailboat on Mercury
The insectoid residents of the planet Mercury will develop their own technology to navigate their chemically polluted waters : mica will be the material of choice

Christian Diors Spring Fashion Show, 1948
Christian Berard, the Surrealist painter, seated on the floor, gazing at passing gowns during Christian Diors Spring Fashion show, 1948

Celebrating the Jubilee on Board a Man of War - Extra Ration
Engraving showing the distribution of grog (watered down rum) on board HMS Sultan to celebrate the Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887

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