Material Collection (page 11)

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

Fashions for February, 1844
Engraving of two women modelling The Illustrated London News idea of Fashion for February 1844. The full caption reads as follows: No.1

Shipping material at Woolwich for the Souakim railway in eastern Sudan

What Women Read-By a Man
A male idea of the female taste in reading material

Costume / Courtly 1530
An aristocrat, probably Spanish, in courtly dress

Reinier Gemma / Frisius
REINIER GEMMA alias FRISIUS Dutch mathematician and medical

Christian Iv / Danish Roya
CHRISTIAN IV King of Denmark and Norway (1588-1648)

Alexandra / Real Photo
QUEEN ALEXANDRA Wife of Edward VII

Fritz Reuter in Inn
FRITZ REUTER depicted among his stammtisch - his regular cronies - in the village inn; he is best known for tales of village life, and doubtless they supplied the material

Cresset Carried Instreet
Two men walking through the night carry a flaming cresset - a basket on a pole, containing flammable material - to show them where they are going

Velvet Suit 1870S / Boy
Boy wears a velvet suit of danish trousers & collarless jacket with a belt of the same material, the whole trimmed with braid. Worn with a white bowtie & boots

African Product Label
A small African boy - whose name is evidently Toto - is featured on this label for a domestic product

Ricksha Boy Label
Ricksha Boy - in traditional plumed headdress - on a product label

Chaka, Zulu Chief
CHAKA, (Shaka, Tshaka) Zulu leader who ruthlessly conquered and ruled most of southern Africa : depicted here on a product label for a humdrum domestic product !

Cable Railway on Site
Quarried material is raised by a crane to a cable railway which will carry it away

Fortune Linings 1935
Advertisement for lining material

C17 Leatherworker
A craftsman - perhaps a leatherworker - presses some kind of material in what seems to be some kind of press

Briton Riviere / Costume
A lounge suit (consisted of a lounging jacket, waistcoat & trousers all of the same material) in a light, checked fabric worn with a wing collar & tie

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping