Raw Collection

Lancashire Cotton Barge
Barges loaded with bales of raw cotton, destined for the cotton mills, Leeds - Liverpool Canal, Blackburn, Lancashire, England. Date: 1930s

WW2 - Recycling cans to aid war effort in East Ham, London
WW2 - Recycling tin cans to aid the war effort in East Ham, London - April, 1940. Date: 1940

Waiting at the Cotton Gin - Memphis, Tennessee. A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds Date: circa 1910

Raw Material. Date: 1914

Recruitment / Callot
Potential raw recruits are given the once over before they take the Kings shilling. Experienced troops on parade look dashing to encourage & lure those in two-minds

Tom Raw : in Litter
Tom Raw, a young officer newly arrived in India, travels up-country in a litter

Tom Raw : on Elephant
Tom Raw, a young officer newly arrived in India, mounts an elephant for the first time

Tom Raw : is Painted
Tom Raw, a young officer newly arrived in India, has his portrait painted

Raw Sausages on a Plate
Uncooked sausages on a plate

What a War! - Suits me, I dunno as I ll ever go back to Railings! - humorous comment
What a War! - " Suits me, I dunno as I ll ever go back to Railings!" - humorous comment on the wartime appropriation of railings for use as raw material in the war effort. Date: circa 1941

Drying Sisal Fibre on a Plantation - Tanzania, East Africa Date: 1923

Cinema advertisement for wartime recycling

Raw wool being sorted at a woollen mill in Bradford, Yorkshire, late Victorian period

Japan - Charcoal Dealer
Charcoal Dealer, Japan. Date: circa 1920s

Scenes of Life in Abyssinia, 1885
Various depictions of rural life in Abyssinia (now known as Ethiopia). We see a trial, a family dinner, drinking mead, and a Broundo - raw meat feast

Alyse Berton Draped in Raw Silk
Alyse Berton, a Seattle resident, draped in raw silk. Seattle had become the most important silk port in the United States. Date: circa 1925

Mixing the various kinds of raw clay, Alfred Meakin
Mixing the various kinds of raw clay Date: 1913

Rubber Tree to Finished Motor Tyres 1907
Showing the plantation where the rubber is produced for the Dunlop Tyres factory where it is pressed, stretched and moulded into shape ready to be used on motorcars. Date: 1907

The Sheep-Eater of Hindustan, No. 1, Lifting the sheep from the ground with his teeth only. 1832

Preparing Caoutchouc, a natural rubber produced in Amazon region. From the beginning of the second half of the 19th century, rubber was desirable commodity, valued at a high price

Drying Silk Cocoons in India
A silk factory in India, showing the latest and most approved method. Cocoons exposed in the sun in large flats trays to dry the silk and also kill the grub inside each cocoon. Date: late 1890s

Making raw silk, Japan
c.1900 vintage photograph: making raw silk, Japan

Scenes from Mozambique, 1820s
Vasco da Gama meeting Muslim natives in Mozambique 64, Francisco Barreto tricked over sliver mines by natives at Chicoa, Mozambique 65, and Portuguese cheating natives with trinkets for gold dust 65

Woman of Senegambia beating cotton, 18th century. She beats the raw cotton instead of carding it. She sits on a wooden bench in front of a thatched hut

Blacksmith or goldsmith at work, Senegambia, 18th century. He works unders thatched hut with tools including fire, anvil, hammer, pincers and bellows. Orfevre ou Forgeron Negre. A goldsmith

London Hippodrome, Madame Heliot & her lions
Madame Claire Heliot feeding raw beef to her lions (and a couple of dogs), in the arena of the London Hippodrome in 1901 in what The Sphere describes as " a very daring performance"

Wool comber using heated wool combs to pull a fine sliver of wool to be spun into yarn. Washed raw wool in a basket, and a clay comb-pot to heat the combs in the foreground

Sewer hunter 1860s
Sewer hunters who made their money by combing through the sewers beneath London streets, sieving through the raw water for a small opportunity of finding something valuable like a ring that somebody

A group of raw Serbian peasant army recruits, badly in need of military training and equipment. Date: 1915

Wolf with Bone Date: 1880

City of London handcart with scrap metal, WW2
WW2 - City of London Corporation handcart containing scrap metal, including bomb ordinance, Southwark Bridge, London. The cart also contains iron railings and general household metalwork

Raw cod as cooking ingredient
Raw cod on a cutting board, ready to be garnished with parsley and beetroot. Date: 1930s

ROUGH DIAMONDS
Rough diamonds on a table in South Africa. Date: 1930s

GLASS MAKING 1755 - 2
The Casting and Running of PLATE GLASS. The man in the background is breaking up lumps of raw Glass which will be melted in the furnace. Date: 1755

EATING REINDEER TO BONE
Ostiaks eat raw reindeer on the bone. Date: 1905

Tom Raw : in Litter
Tom Raw, a young officer newly arrived in India, travels up-country in a litter Date: 1828

HIS PORTRAIT PAINTED
Tom Raw, a young officer newly arrived in India, has his portrait painted Date: 1828

Tom Raw : on Elephant
Tom Raw, a young officer newly arrived in India, mounts an elephant for the first time Date: 1828

GLASS 18TH CENTURY 10
GLACES Placing the raw material in the furnace Date: 1765

Djibouti - Charcoal Depot at the Port. Date: 1920

Elizabeth / Royal Exchange
Queen Elizabeth I opens the Royal Exchange. Trade flourished as pioneers revealed new sources for the supply of raw materials. Date: 1570

Return of the hot water bottles 1946
Production of the rubber synthetic hot water bottle in Streatham factory, London, post Second World War. During the War, rubber was reserved for making tires for military trucks

Tunisia - Metlaoui - Phosphate Society Mines of Sfax-Gafsa - unloading the wagns. Date: circa 1910s

Raw levies for the Chinese army, 1894
First Sino-Japanese War (1st August 1894 17th April 1895). Raw levies for the Chinese army. The only reserve force is that of the Ying Ping or Chinese militia

Preparing Raw Material for Crushing, Belleek Potteries
Preparing Raw Material forCrushing, Belleek Potteries - an outside view with two men sitting astride large rocks which they are breaking. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Fermanagh: Belleek)

The Renaissance of the French Army: Impressions of Life in the Famous Light Camps for Recruits - From raw recruits to potential instructors in four months

Theobroma cacao, cocoa tree
Watercolour on paper by Evelyn M. Woolward (fl.1880-90s). Held in the Library and Archives

Beaten Up Raw by H. M. Bateman, new recruits by WW1
Humorous illustration showing two raw recruits, just out of the egg, looking a little dishevelled as they consider crossing the road. Date: 1914

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