Material Collection (page 7)

India - Shrine at Rams Birthplace, Fyzabad
Black and white. Structure made of thatched plant material with an archway. Inside there are lamps, decorated mats, flowers and metal containers.. Part of India Box, Boswell Collection

Advertisement for Sefton Fabrics
Advertisement for silks, sherevoiles and handkerchiefs from Sefton s, one of the leading manufacturers of fashionable textiles in the early 20th century. Date: 1920

Flower arrangement with daffodils and tulips in a green vase against a silky purple background

Militant Suffragette Crested China Figurine
A porcelain figure of a militant suffragette produced as an item of crested ware with the crest of the city of Exeter. The figure of the woman is finely detailed to illustrate her allegiance to

Paris, France - Arsenal and its shipyard. Date: circa 1600

Firefighters at Wansdown Place, London SW6
Firefighters in action with hosepipes at a storage and maintenance works in Wansdown Place, Fulham, London SW6, 31 March 1956. Date: 1956

Firefighters at Crabtree Lane, London SW6, 12 September 1956. They are turning over the large quantities of cardboard cartons which constituted the major portion of combustible material stored

Man with salvage cart, London, WW2
Man with a salvage cart full of bundles of material, near bombed-out buildings in London during the Second World War. Date: 1940s

The Vision Feminine
An ilustration showing a woman knitting during WW1 and using a specific technique with a ball of wool. Date: 1916

Assorted ephemera including some Toc H material. Collection

Sefton Fabrics advertisement
Advertisement for Seftons Fabrics displaying a number of coloured patterns and designs. Date: 1918

Sefton fabrics featuring Eve, 1918
Advertisement for Sefton Fabrics, publicising their new materials featuring designs by Annie Fish and Rillette as well as other, unspecified but well known artists

WW2 poster, Get this into your head, Mister! When material in short supply is received, it must be supplied to production floor at lightning speed. Design by Victor Hicks. Date: 1940s

WW2 poster, careful handling of material
WW2 poster, knockabout comedy is funny on the films but its not funny in the factory. Careful handling of material costs you nothing -- carelessness costs the nation pounds! Design by Victor Hicks

Curtains for Baden Powell House, South Kensington, London
Women sewing curtains for the newly built Baden Powell House, Queens Gate, South Kensington, London. The site was acquired in 1956, and Ralph Tubbs was appointed architect

Girl in traditional costume, Egypt
Girl in traditional costume, including a translucent white blouse and a necklace, Egypt. Date: circa 1870

Advertisement for Sixten & Cassey of Regent Street, London, who provided many of the beautiful damasks, velvets, satins and chintz used in the May Fair Hotel

1920s photograph album fabric
Floral fabric design from the 1920s, taken from a vintage photograph album. Date: c.1925

British soldiers constructing light railway, WW1
British soldiers constructing a light railway on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Queen Alexandras coronation dress worked in India
The superb overdress of Indian embroidery which was made for Queen Alexandras Coronation costume, being worked during the winter of 1901-2 in Delhi by forty of the most skilled needleworkers at

Courtaulds waterproof crape for mourning, 1915
Advertisement for Courtaulds Waterproof crape, available in the usual firm finish, or in a soft finish. Ideal for fashionable mourning and obtained from the leading drapers of the world. Date: 1915

British engineering dump, Western Front, WW1
Scene at a British engineering dump on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Home-made toys for Christmas 1942
Everyone is making toys. Noah never saw so many animals as are coming out of scrap-bags in every household for Christmas. The diagram given for the four animals shown are easy to follow. 1942

Advert for Beatl table lamps 1930
Beatl is a word that will soon be well known as word china - for Beatl is the name of the wonderful new material that is rapidly replacing china and glass everywhere

Liberty jumper
Jumper in hand-printed crepe de chine, with collar and facings of plain silk, from Libertys own works at Merton Abbey. Available in a variety of designs and colours, costing 3

Home-made dolly for Christmas 1944
A cutie to make at home. Cut out pattern for a home-made dolly. 1944

Business card design, young woman with textiles
Business card design, depicting a young woman in a red dress, sitting on rolls of textiles. Date: 20th century

Women looking in a shop window. Date: circa 1940s

Advert for Asprey hand bags & clutches 1928
A wide variety of hand bags and clutches, available from Asprey of Bond Street. 1928

Advertising material displayed on a car, with a man sitting alongside. One poster reads: Stop this car for a free drive, and the other reads: See the seaside from the air

Advert for Beatl picnic basket 1930
No more breakages, no soggy paper plates and cups. Bright and colourful Beatl picnic basket. Date: 1930

Advert for Beatl coffee service 1930
Bright and colourful Beatl coffee service with tray to match, complete with quaintly-formed sugar and cream. Date: 1930

John D Rockefeller
JOHN DAVISON ROCKEFELLER American financier, head of the Standard Oil Companies probably the richest man in material wealth that ever lived. Date: 1839 - 1937

South Africa - Brickmaking. Date: circa 1908

Woman wearing the trousers
" What material would you like for your trousers, Sir?" " Oh! The same as my Wife s." !! A comment on a strong woman, most definitely wearing the trousers in this relationship

WW2 - Austerity - Getting by with Shreds and Threds
WW2 - Austerity - Getting by with Shreds and Threads. Lovely card by Evelyn E Morris, relating to the need for austerity during wartime and hence a lack of available cloth for new clothes or repairs

Making Mud Bricks, Cyprus Date: circa 1910s

US President Roosevelt signs the Lease-and-Lend Bill
US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lease-and-Lend Bill onMarch 11th 1941. Lend-Lease was the programme under which the USA aided the Allied nations with material between 1941 and 1945

Material for a future Warrior
Young Solomon. Sketch 84 from a collection of original sketches by Thomas Baines, (1859-1871)

Velcro
A trademarked name for a fastening tape made up of a strip of nylon with a surface of minute hooks, that fasten to another strip with a surface of uncut pile. A SEM image

The Parnalle ordinary chondrite
The Parnallee ordinary chondrite, part of the Parnallee meteorite that fell in India in 1857

Imitation Coral
A piece of imitation coral. In its true state coral is made up of colonies of small organisms called polyps

Exotic birds amongst flowers
Fabric design featuring brightly coloured exotic birds, with a background of vibrant flowers. Date: 1922

Brightly coloured floral pattern with butterflies
Fabric design featuring vibrant floral pattern with blue butterflies. Date: 1922

Rainbow flowers and stripes
A fabric design featuring rainbow coloured flowers and stripes. Date: 1922

Colourful flowers and birds
Colourful fabric design depicting exotic birds perching on branch with bright exotic flowers Date: 1922

Colourful pattern with oranges, lemons, grapes and flowers
Colourful design for fabric with oranges, lemons, grapes and flowers Date: 1922

Bright lanterns hanging in the trees
Fabric design depicting bright lanterns hanging in the trees Date: 1922

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