Pasting Collection

Woman sitting in her own home in South London, making the hat boxes for a supplier that make silk hats for the richer society

MAKING GLOBES 1930S
Making globes: The girl is pasting newspaper over a globe shape. The globe is then baked in an oven until hard. The boy is preparing a half globe for joining. Date: 1930s

Advertisement for Stickphast Paste. circa 1900

Caricature of Frank Toole, theatrical manager
Caricature of Frank (Francis) Toole, theatrical manager to his actor brother John Lawrence Toole. Seen here pasting up a poster -- What a good brother he has been! 1881

Pasting scraps into an album
Silhouette of a boy & girl pasting scraps into an album.Date: circa 1930

London Fire Brigade -- recruiting for the AFS
The hose laying lorry at Lambeth (Fire Brigade HQ) being pasted with Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS) recruitment posters as part of a countrywide recruitment campaign before the outbreak of the Second

Matchbox making at home, East End of London
A woman with her three children engaged in making matchboxes at their home in the East End of London. The work, which involved pasting and assembling the boxes, was notoriously badly paid

Pasting Carrier Bags
Women pasting Pontings carrier bags at the Drayton Paper Works, Fulham, London

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