Rubber Collection (page 2)

Men and women's rubber heel tips that were easily fixed to the shoe. Date: 1904

John Miller campaigning against Dunlop closures
John Miller, British journalist and author, with others, campaigning against closures and redundancies at the Dunlop works in Skelmersdale, Lancashire. Date: circa 1982

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

WW2 poster, Take Great Care of your Tyres - if 90% of the worlds rubber is in enemy hands, and the remaining 10% is needed for the Forces, whats going to happen when your present tyres wear out?

India-rubber plant, Ficus elastica. Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, Frederick Warne, London, 1896

Telegram congratulations, new baby. 1949

Advert, The North British Rubber Co Ltd, Edinburgh
Advert for The North British Rubber Co Ltd, Castle Mills, Edinburgh, Scotland. 1905

Advert, James Wotherspoon & Sons, Glasgow, Scotland
Advert for James Wotherspoon & Sons, Asbestos, Rubber and Canvas Hose Manufacturers, Glasgow, Scotland. 1905

Rubber tree, Urceola elastica. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887

Para rubber tree or sharinga tree, Hevea brasiliensis. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887

Tree cassava, Manihot carthaginensis subsp. glaziovii
Tree cassava or ceara rubber tree, Manihot carthaginensis subsp. glaziovii (Manihot glaziovii). Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants

Rubber fig tree, Ficus elastica (Urostigma elasticum). Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887

Panama rubber tree, Castilla elastica. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887

Rubber tree and gum arabic tree
Rubber tree, Hevea guianensis 1, and gum arabic tree or thorn mimosa, Vachellia nilotica 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Rubber tree, Hevea guianensis (Siphonia elastica). Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse

Title page, Electrical Fixtures, FS & Co Limited
Title page, Supplementary Catalogue, Electrical Fixtures, Falk, Stadelmann & Co Limited, Veritas Works, Farringdon Road, London EC1, also with offices in Glasgow, Manchester and Birmingham. 1922

Boy practising archery in a wood. Date: circa 1980s

Horse and cart in a field, Roseland, Cornwall. Date: circa 1960s

Adverts, North British Rubber Co, Redpath, Brown & Co
Adverts for The North British Rubber Co Ltd, Castle Mills, Edinburgh, and Redpath, Brown & Co Ltd, Scotland. 1905

Advert, J Buchanan & Co, Carriage Makers, Glasgow
Advert for J Buchanan & Co, North Street, Glasgow, Scotland, Carriage Manufactory. 1905

Option warrant, Commonwealth & Southern Corporation
Option warrant to purchase common stock of The Commonwealth & Southern Corporation, Delaware, USA -- 10 shares, dated 31 August 1929. Date: 1929

Envelope sent via British Embassy diplomatic bag in April 1978 (when the Mary Evans Picture Library was located at a different but nearby address in London SE3). Date: 1978

Beach fashions for women 1930
Model wearing the latest fashionable beach wear. 1930

Racing car on a wet track with cut tyres
Racing car on a wet track -- the tyres had to be specially treated with shallow cuts transversing the normal tread for extra grip. 20th century

Barney Oldfield, racing driver. 20th century

Form, British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act, 1914, completed and dated 31 May 1947, rubber stamped by the Home Office, 12 June 1947. Declaration of Acquisition of British Nationality

Strip of rubber with comic verse on a birthday card
Strip of rubber for mending a puncture, with comic verse on a birthday card. Date: circa 1890s

Birthday card for a child, Hot Water Bottle. 20th century

The Shop Keeper - People You See. From Teddy Bear (6 September 1969). Original artwork loaned for scanning by the Illustration Art Gallery. Date: 1969

Envelope from France addressed to Miss L Auerbach, WW1
Registered envelope postmarked 21 October 1916 from Albert Auerbach of the Royal Fusiliers to his sister Lucy from a Field Post Office in Northern France

London Fire Brigade at work in a narrow street
London Fire Brigade at work with an extended ladder in a narrow street, probably in the City of London. Date: circa 1920s

Advert for Shoolbred womens motoring coat 1905
Woman wearing a stout, soft grey rubber double texture, wool satin back, collar and pipings of kid. 1905

Man in cottage doorway, Arlington Row, Bibury, Glos
Man in cottage doorway, Arlington Row, Bibury, Gloucestershire. Date: circa 1960s

Interior in Dunlop factory 1896
Thousands of Dunlop pneumatic tyres, Belfast was the scene of its introduction, then a move was made to Dublin, whose Corporation

Sir Arthur du Cros
Sir Arthur Philip du Cros, 1st Baronet du Cros (1871 - 1955), British industrialist and politician. Managing director of Dunlop Rubber Company and Unionist member for Hastings. Date: 1896

Harvey du Cros
William Harvey du Cros (1846 - 1918), Dublin-born financier, the founder of the pneumatic tire industry, based on the discovery of John Boyd Dunlop, first applied to cycles

Advert for Hamleys Christmas toys 1929
Various toys for girls and boy s, a clockwork Rolls-Royce model car, with four doors that open and rubber tyres. Six electric models to build, for any boy

Advertisement for Michelin tyres, depicting the Michelin man riding a bicycle. circa 1910s

Blue Baby Carriage

Footwear of the Nations - Turkey (and Western)
Footwear of the Nations - Turkey (the turned-up toed slippers of a Turkish beauty and the Western black rubber-soled shoes of her male admirer)

Advert for OSullivans rubber heels 1910
OSullivans rubber heels. Date: 1910

BALANCING THE BOOKS
An accountant checks his ledger and balances his books before rubber stamping them. Date: 1930s

SPEAKING WATCH (INSIDES)
A watch designed by M.Sivan, which contains a miniature Edison phonograph, allowing it to speak the time, by reading off a rubber disc. Date: 1894

CHILDREN ON BEACH 1 OF 4
Children on the beach - wanting to make friends but feeling a bit shy Date: 1930s

New York World Fair - The Goodrich Building
The Goodrich Sidney Arena, New York Worlds Fair 1939. In the Goodrich Safety Arena Jimmie Lynch and his dare-devil stunt drivers entertain Worlds Fair visitors comfortably seated in the covered

Macho swimmer in rubber hat, USA
Macho triathlon swimmer in green rubber hat. Seattle, USA

Dummy rubber Centurion Tank, Joint Concelament Centre Troops
Exercise " London Pride" held on Salisbury Plain between September 5-9 under the direction of Sir Francis Festing: troops of the Joint Concelament Centre moving a dummy Centurion tank

Salies-de-Bearn, France - Thermal Baths - Sports Pool. Date: circa 1920s

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