Strands Collection

Rowntree's Cocoa Advertisement
An advertisement illustration for Rowntree & Co. Ltd, promoting Rowntree's Cocoa. The image humorously portrays an old maritime man eating strands of rope as if it was food

Rope making at a rope and sail cloth factory, East London
Flat rope making at the Sir Joseph Huddart and Co rope and sail cloth factory, Limehouse, East London. Date: 1842

Rope laying at a rope and sail cloth factory, East London
Rope making or laying at the Sir Joseph Huddart and Co rope and sail cloth factory, Limehouse, East London. Date: 1842

Rope spinning at a rope and sail cloth factory, East London
Rope spinning at the Sir Joseph Huddart and Co rope and sail cloth factory, Limehouse, East London, with a close-up view of the many strands of a rope. Date: 1842

View inside a rope and sail cloth factory, East London
View inside the Sir Joseph Huddart and Co rope and sail cloth factory, Limehouse, East London -- a workman operates a strand-registering machine. Date: 1842

Strands of red hair with comic verse on a Christmas card -- From the Hair Apparent. Date: circa 1890

Nybroviken, Stockholm, Sweden
Nybroviken (New Bridge Bay) in the centre of Stockholm, Sweden, showing the Strands Terrass (Strand Hotel), steamboats and ferries. Date: circa 1910

Rope Making
Short rope making, keeping the strands together while they are being twisted, in the village of Rope-Walk, Hawes, Wensleydale, Yorkshire, England. Date: 1950s

Matchmakers filling frames with wax strands
Women working at a matchmaking factory fill frames with wax strands

Heat-resistant asbestos
A photograph taken for a commercial client, demonstrating the heat-resisting properties of Asbestos, long before the modern dangers of the material were recognised. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

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