Materials Collection (page 3)

Vitromant Coloured Shelf Lavatory (Wash Basin / sink) - from the Vitromant Sanitaryware range - from a catalogue for Nicholls and Clarke Ltd. London

Armitage Coloured (Mottle) Ware -Dove Grey Basin
Armitage Coloured (Mottle) Ware - Dove Grey Wash Basin (sink). Date: circa 1920s

Armitage Coloured (Mottle) Ware - Mottled Amber Basin
Armitage Coloured (Mottle) Ware - Mottled Amber Wash Basin (sink). Date: circa 1920s

Can House, Tonopah, Nevada, USA
The Can House (constructed out of metal cans), Tonopah, Nevada, USA, with a man standing outside. Date: circa 1910

Envelope, adhesive photo wafers
Envelope containing a quantity of adhesive photo wafers, price sixpence, for use in Gilbert photograph albums. Date: circa 1920s

Envelope, Johnsons invisible photo corners
Envelope containing 400 Johnsons invisible photo corners for use in photograph albums, price sixpence. Date: circa 1920s

Envelope, Paget photographic paper
Envelope containing twenty sheets of Paget self-toning paper, price eightpence, from Paget Prize Plate Co Limited of Watford. Date: circa 1920s

Envelope, Seltona photographic paper
Envelope containing twelve sheets of Seltona self-toning paper, price sixpence, from Leto Photo Materials Company Limited of London and Edgware. Date: circa 1920s

Heinkel He 162A -built from wood and other non-strategic materials, only a few of these jet fighters were in service at wars end

Hat factory finishing room at Battersby s, Stockport, in1906. This photograph shows the workbench and toolboxes for the workers, as well as the final packaging materials for the finished products

Scouts landing materials at Argostolion, Kefalonia, Greece
Scouts landing materials at Limenarchio, Argostolion, Kefalonia, Greece. Four earthquakes hit the island in August 1953, destroying many buildings; the scouts helped with clearing up

Fire at supply depot, Limmer Wharf, Barking, Essex
Panoramic view of a fire which broke out at a Ministry of Supply depot, Limmer Wharf, Barking, Essex, on 27 October 1947. Seen here is the fire in its early stages

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 safety poster, Use Your Head Brother! Unpack and handle all materials with care. By Victor Hicks. Date: 1940s

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 salvaging near Bapaume, WW1
British soldiers salvaging materials on a battlefield near Bapaume, France, on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

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

Advertisement for Shoolbreds ladies shirts
Advertisement for Shoolbreds ladies tailor-made shirts, made by expert tailors in the mens shirt department. Materials available are spun silk, taffeta silk, spunella

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

Advert for Japshan pure silk patterns 1935
The patterns that bloom in the Spring, tra la ! Nature herself cannot show anything more gladdening than the new Japshan pattern. Checks, stripes and plain colours, all are the newest of the new

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 British Railways 1943
The ever rising tide. War production is rising like the tide and the need for rail transport rises with it. But this increase in traffic is only one of the Railways many wartime loads

Russian Credit Co. Hardware Store
Russian Peasants in a 1929 credit company hardware store. Date: 1929

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

The Port of Balaklava, Crimea, 1855
Engraving showing the port of Balaklava with sentries in the foreground, warmly dressed in boots and thick coats, during the Crimean War, 1855

Georg Nikolaus Nissen
GEORG NIKOLAUS NISSEN who married Mozarts widow Konstanze in 1809 and collected the materials for the first biography of her husband. Date: 1761 - 1826

Thomas Lawrence
SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE artist, with attendant cherubs and artists materials. Date: 1769 - 1830

South Africa - Brickmaking. Date: circa 1908

Making Mud Bricks, Cyprus Date: circa 1910s

Advert for Imperial Chemical Industries; shortage of rubber
During World War Two, Britain got 90% of their suppies of natural rubber from Japan, due to this, rubber became scarce. Old rubber was collected from old tyres and worn hose-pipes

Advert for Gor-ray Koneray pleated skirts 1942

Painting a duck, Sally and Jake
Painting a duck - a Sally and Jake story in Playhour

LCC-LFB - A lowered theatre safety curtain
A safety curtain is a fire safety precaution used in large proscenium arch theatres. It is usually a heavy fibreglass or iron curtain located immediately behind the proscenium arch

Exhibition Materials for the artist. Poster for Federal Art Project exhibition. Date between 1936 and 1939

Dodge & Co. Manufacturers of lumber. Dodge & Co. Manufacturers of lumber

Advertisement for railway equipment
Advertisement for W B Dick & Co of London, Manufacturers of Light Railways and Tramway Materials. Showing various railway items, with a depiction of Kerrs Patent Portable Railway at the centre

Silhouettes of soldiers in wartime
Some of our lads -- silhouettes of soldiers in wartime. Including a piper playing the bagpipes, men standing on guard or chatting, a drummer, men carrying tools and materials for trench digging

Royal wedding 1893 - buying trousseau materials
Buying materials for the wedding trousseau of Princess May of Teck(later the Duchess of York, then Queen Mary)(1867-1953) for her marriage to George Duke of York(later King George V)(1865-1936)

Microdensitometer
The Analytical Research Unit, Harwell, is a service for industry to identify and control impurities in industrial materials : Using a microdensitometer and computer Date: 1973

Electron Microscope
The EM 300 transmission electron microscope, which is used to study tiny voids or dislocations in materials or very small crystallites, A.E.R.E. Harwell. Date: October 1971

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

Italian Fiat 18P lorry in use during WW1
An Italian Fiat 18P multi-use lorry or van in use during the First World War for the transport of troops and materials. Date: 1915-1920

Italian Fiat 30 prime mover in use during WW1
An Italian Fiat 30 prime mover lorry in use during the First World War for the transport of heavy artillery. Date: 1915

Italian Fiat 20B prime mover in use during WW1
An Italian Fiat 20B prime mover lorry in use during the First World War for the transport of heavy artillery. Date: 1915-1920

The Nonslip Stone Company - Road Congress Exhibition
The Stand/exhibit of the Nonslip Stone Company - at the 3rd International Road Congress Exhibition held in London in June 1913. Date: 1913

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