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New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Rubber salvage operation

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Public domain photograph of a historic place in New York, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Fitting the steel tire to the wagon wheel assembly in the plant of a Southern wagon company which is experiencing a business boom because of the rubber shortage

Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Fitting the steel ti...

Public domain photograph - working class people, the 1930s United States, work, labor, worker, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Weeding guayule nursery beds. A special small power cultivator cleans the space between the rows, but the rows themselves must be weeded by hand. Guayule plantings will produce an estimated 600 tons of rubber in 1943, provided a crop in 1944 which should yield 33,000 tons and a harvest in 1945 to yield 47,000 tons. An annual production of 70,000 tons to 80,000 tons will materialize if full capacity of nurseries now being built is utilized Addition: This program is part of the Department of Agriculture's Emergency Rubber Project, administered by the Forest Service under congressional authorization "to make available a source of crude rubber for emergency and defense uses"

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Weeding guayule nursery beds. A spec...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). The coagulator and extractor tank is used to bring the latex solution to rubber crumbs. Soap is removed by dilution in soft distilled water. Goodrich

Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). The coagulator and extractor tank is used...

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Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. Full safety equipment for one pilot; rubber boat, paddles, seabucket, mending kit for bullet holes "Mae West" life preserver, and dye sack to stain the surrounding water and facilitate detection from the air

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patro...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a boat in a harbor, water, fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. "I'll Carry Mine," a campaign to conserve transportation facilities and thus save rubber and gasoline. Boys delivering packages

Washington, D.C. "I'll Carry Mine," a campaign to conserve transportat...

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Buffalo, New York. Recently employed women being sworn into the rubber workers union at a Sunday meeting. Most of them have never worked before and know little about trade unionism

Buffalo, New York. Recently employed women being sworn into the rubber...

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Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. A flyer in an all-rubber crash suit testing the use of a rubber boat, which he is extracting from its bag

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patro...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a boat in a harbor, water, fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

U.S. Rubber Co., 1230 6th Ave., New York City. Boardroom II

U.S. Rubber Co., 1230 6th Ave., New York City. Boardroom II

Public domain photograph of early 20th-century New York metropolis cityscape, buildings, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lee Tire & Rubber Company, Plant, 1100 Hector Avenue, Conshohocken, Montgomery County, PA

Lee Tire & Rubber Company, Plant, 1100 Hector Avenue, Conshohocken, Mo...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Goodyear Rubber Company, 6701 South Central Avenue, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Goodyear Rubber Company, 6701 South Central Avenue, Los Angeles, Los A...

Significance: Goodyear Rubber Company was the first tire manufacturing company on the West Coast. By the mid-1920's, other tire companies followed Goodyear's lead and established facilities on the West Coast. ... More

Goodyear Rubber Company, 6701 South Central Avenue, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Goodyear Rubber Company, 6701 South Central Avenue, Los Angeles, Los A...

Significance: Goodyear Rubber Company was the first tire manufacturing company on the West Coast. By the mid-1920's, other tire companies followed Goodyear's lead and established facilities on the West Coast. ... More

Goodyear Rubber Company, 6701 South Central Avenue, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Goodyear Rubber Company, 6701 South Central Avenue, Los Angeles, Los A...

Significance: Goodyear Rubber Company was the first tire manufacturing company on the West Coast. By the mid-1920's, other tire companies followed Goodyear's lead and established facilities on the West Coast. ... More

Goodyear Rubber Company, 6701 South Central Avenue, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Goodyear Rubber Company, 6701 South Central Avenue, Los Angeles, Los A...

Significance: Goodyear Rubber Company was the first tire manufacturing company on the West Coast. By the mid-1920's, other tire companies followed Goodyear's lead and established facilities on the West Coast. ... More

Goodyear Rubber Company, 6701 South Central Avenue, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Goodyear Rubber Company, 6701 South Central Avenue, Los Angeles, Los A...

Significance: Goodyear Rubber Company was the first tire manufacturing company on the West Coast. By the mid-1920's, other tire companies followed Goodyear's lead and established facilities on the West Coast. ... More

Goodyear Rubber Company, 6701 South Central Avenue, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Goodyear Rubber Company, 6701 South Central Avenue, Los Angeles, Los A...

Significance: Goodyear Rubber Company was the first tire manufacturing company on the West Coast. By the mid-1920's, other tire companies followed Goodyear's lead and established facilities on the West Coast. ... More

World's Fair. Firestone Tire & Rubber Company Building at night II

World's Fair. Firestone Tire & Rubber Company Building at night II

The New York World's Fair was a large international exposition held in New York City, United States in 1939-1940. The 1939-1940 World's Fair was themed "The World of Tomorrow" and featured pavilions and exhibit... More

Indian rubber boat, pontoons, & c.

Indian rubber boat, pontoons, & c.

Photograph shows the Charles Goodyear exhibit of vulcanized india-rubber products (boat, pontoons, and buoys). Salted paper photoprint by Claude-Marie Ferrier or Hugh Owen. Illus. in: Reports by the Juries, Lon... More

Rubber tree, Eden - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Rubber tree, Eden - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain photograph - historical image of Florida, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Street types of New York City: Street cleaner with rubber boots shoveling snow]

[Street types of New York City: Street cleaner with rubber boots shove...

Photoprint copyrighted by Elizabeth Alice Austen. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Occupations; Street cleaners.

60 per cent of Akron, O. population now on relief, Dies Committee told. Washington, D.C., Nov. 15. Testifying today before the House Committee Investigating Un-American Activities, C. Nelson Sparks, Akron, O., former Mayor and Chairman of a Law and Order League during the 1936 rubber strike, declared that 60 percent of the town's population is now living on government or state relief checks since rubber companies decentralized their operations after a wave of strikes

60 per cent of Akron, O. population now on relief, Dies Committee told...

A black and white photo of a man sitting at a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Rubber plantations in Sumatra: Bird's-eye view from Bukit Hantoe, Goerach Batoe Estate]

[Rubber plantations in Sumatra: Bird's-eye view from Bukit Hantoe, Goe...

J221225 U.S. Copyright Office Photoprint copyrighted by General Rubber Co. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geog.; Ind. Rubber; Trees.

June Roberts in rubber bathing suit, 6/17/22

June Roberts in rubber bathing suit, 6/17/22

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At Labor-Industry conference. Washington, D.C., May 4. Alvin MacCauley, President of the Packard Motor Co., and T.G. Graham, vice president of the D.R. Goodrich Rubber Co., were among the prominent business leaders to attend the Labor-Industry conference today [at] the Labor Department. This was the second of a series of conferences called be Secretary of Labor Perkins in efforts to get Labor and Industry to agree on a formula to avert strikes and lockouts, 5/4/37

At Labor-Industry conference. Washington, D.C., May 4. Alvin MacCauley...

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Mr. Barton Murray, Chief, Rubber and Rubber Products, Division of Civilian Supply, Office of Production Management (OPM)

Mr. Barton Murray, Chief, Rubber and Rubber Products, Division of Civi...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

U.S. Marines. Camouflaging rubber boat after landing, during U.S. Marine Corps maneuvers

U.S. Marines. Camouflaging rubber boat after landing, during U.S. Mari...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Chopped and crushed guayule. The shrub is treated like this before going through various rollers in the factory in the process of rubber extraction

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Chopped and cr...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Singapore, Malaya Infantrymen of the Indian Army crossing a river in collapsible rubber boats.

Singapore, Malaya Infantrymen of the Indian Army crossing a river in c...

OWI copy neg. no. 446-ZB. No. A-4537. Original file: Wide World. Forms part of: FSA/OWI Collection (Library of Congress).

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Digger of seedlings in the guayule nursery

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Digger of seed...

Public domain photograph of California in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bofors forty-millimeter mounts. A plant inspector carefully checks welded gun carriages for Bofors forty-millimeter anti-aircraft guns. These carriages and Bofor gun mounts are now manufactured in a large Midwest rubber company which has been converted to production of war necessities. Originally, Bofors carriages were riveted and required many additional operations in assembling, but company engineers have produced this welded construction which has reduced time and cost of manufacture and produced a much stronger, one-piece article

Bofors forty-millimeter mounts. A plant inspector carefully checks wel...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Rubber reclamation. Old rubber goes back to work. An automatic rotary knife removes the wire band portion of a scrap tire. The tire body is then ready to pass through various stages of the xylos reclamation process at a well-known rubber plant. The wire band portion, imcluding a very small amount of rubber, goes to a smelter for recovery of the metal

Rubber reclamation. Old rubber goes back to work. An automatic rotary ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Approximately four-year-old guayule plant. The seedlings remain in the nursery for eight or nine months, the age of the shrub being determined by the length of time it is in the field. Guayule reaches maturity in from four to six years. At maturity the plant is about three feet in height. The rubber content is from eighteen to twenty percent of the dry weight

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Approximately ...

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Rubber reclamation. Rubber harvest from scrapped tires. Reclaimed, dried scrap rubber is plasticized on the eighty-four-inch mill roll of a xylos process plant in the Midwest. Pigments are added to give the properties desired in the finished product. As it comes off the mill rolls, the reclaimed substance has regained the appearance of new rubber. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Rubber harvest from scrapped tires. Reclaimed, dri...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Airplane seat production. Final inspection of completed airplane pilot seats at a large Midwest rubber company converted to war production is a thorough process that must cover every rivet and adjustment. Here inspectors are operating the fore and aft track adjustment which permits the pilot to move his position backward and forward while the plane is in operation

Airplane seat production. Final inspection of completed airplane pilot...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Salinas, California. Putting seed into the planter used in guayule nursery of the Intercontinental Rubber Producers

Salinas, California. Putting seed into the planter used in guayule nur...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Rubber reclamation. Rubber sheets from scrap tires. Reclaimed rubber, with all traces of metal and fiber removed, is passed through a series of mill rolls and taken off in sheets form the final roll. This rubber, reclaimed by the xylos process, is now ready for processing into thousands of mechanical rubber products vital to the war production effort. It is also put to many uses in which reclaimed stock is more desirable than new rubber. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Rubber sheets from scrap tires. Reclaimed rubber, ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Wood wheels are placed on fighters as they move down the assembly line and onto the flight ramp. When the ships are ready for flight, rubber wheels are attached, and the wood goes back to the assembly line

Wood wheels are placed on fighters as they move down the assembly line...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Workers on Rickenbacker rescue boat. How mileage rationing can save lives on the battlefronts was pointed up dramatically by Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, who with six members of his crew were rescued after three weeks adrift on life rafts in the Pacific. "One tire that is not wasted on pleasure driving may save the lives of seven men as ours was saved," Rickenbacker said. One old rubber tire is sufficient to make a three-man raft of the type that saved the party in the Pacific

Workers on Rickenbacker rescue boat. How mileage rationing can save li...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversion. Beverage containers to aviation oxygen cylinders. Four major welding operations are essential to the manufacture of shatterproof oxygen cylinders for high altitude flying. In the first, the circumferential straps are securely welded to the cylindrical portion to prevent tearing of the metal. The process is shown above, taken in the metal division of a large Eastern rubber factory. Firestone, Akron, Ohio

Conversion. Beverage containers to aviation oxygen cylinders. Four maj...

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Manpower. Negro bomber plant workers. Conservation of rubber by American motorists makes possible these bomber tires, which are being assembled in a large Eastern aircraft plant. These Negro workers are clamping on lock washers to the wheels before final assembly of the landing gear. Glenn L. Martin Bomber Plant. Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Negro bomber plant workers. Conservation of rubber by Americ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Salvage. Requisitioning auto graveyard. U.S. marshals, accompanied by county police, raid the Colmar Manor, Maryland auto graveyard of the Lenox Motor Company. Donovan, the owner, has refused to sell scrap metal and rubber at established prices and the U.S. government requisitioned all the material on hand

Salvage. Requisitioning auto graveyard. U.S. marshals, accompanied by ...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Saboteur! Stop destroying that eraser, young lady. Last year 180 tons of rubber were used in such erasers -- the same quantity as would make 200,000 army gas masks

Saboteur! Stop destroying that eraser, young lady. Last year 180 tons ...

Public domain photograph - working class people, the 1930s United States, work, labor, worker, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

War production drive. Bulletin boards, to be effective, must be interesting. Enlarged copies of dramatic cartoons and forceful messages on car pooling and rubber conservation make the bulletin board at the Northern Pump Company plant a highly important factor in the war production drive

War production drive. Bulletin boards, to be effective, must be intere...

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Washington, D.C. Washington tire store. Brushing on rubber cement to make recap secure before vulcanizing

Washington, D.C. Washington tire store. Brushing on rubber cement to m...

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Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). These "crumbs" of synthetic rubber, free of water, are now being rolled into sheets. Goodrich

Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). These "crumbs" of synthetic rubber, free ...

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Production of butylene glycol. Corn for which new industrial uses are sought is milled at the Northern Regional Research Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Agriculture at Peoria, Illinois. A fermentation process for converting grain into butylene glycol, developed in the laboratory, has proved successful on a semi-commercial scale in the pilot plant. Butylene glycol, hitherto a relatively rare chemical, can be used in making anti-freeze for automobiles and in the production of commercial solvents for various manufacturing purposes. Department scientists have succeeded on a laboratory scale in turning butylene glycol into butadiene, from which synthetic rubber can be made. The problem now is to develop a practical commercial process

Production of butylene glycol. Corn for which new industrial uses are ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Get in the scrap. Conversion poster released by the Office for Emergency Management (OEM) to promote the collection of scrap metal, paper, rags and rubber

Get in the scrap. Conversion poster released by the Office for Emergen...

Public domain photograph of life in the USA during the 1930s-1940s, war, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. Intelligence officer checking safety equipment issued to the pilot and observer of a patrol plane, including rubber boat and life jacket "Mae West," inflatable by carbon dioxide gas catridges; repair kit to mend bullet in the boat; and dye container to color water for better identification; flashlight with red lens for identification by night; smoke bombs; water markers; Very pistols; and rubber watertight flying suit

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patro...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a boat in a harbor, water, fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Buffalo, New York. Recently employed women being sworn into the rubber workers union at a Sunday meeting. Most of them have never worked before and know little about trade unionism

Buffalo, New York. Recently employed women being sworn into the rubber...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, civil rights movement, African Americans, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tire recapping. A newly recapped passenger car tire is put in the "finished" rack to await pickup by the owner. The plan to recap passenger tires with reclaimed rubber camelback, approved by Rubber Director William M. Jeffers, was put into effect in February 1943 to reduce the demand for replacement tires and still keep civilian cars in service

Tire recapping. A newly recapped passenger car tire is put in the "fin...

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Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. Testing a rubber crash boat in the swimming pool

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patro...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a boat in a harbor, water, fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Wool replaces rubber. Wool felt, a proven substitute for rubber in washers and gaskets for machinery, may be "tailored" as shown above to meet tolerances of a few thousands of an inch for a variety of sizes and shapes. Physical properties such as resiliency, tensile strength, etc., are "made to order" during the processing stage

Wool replaces rubber. Wool felt, a proven substitute for rubber in was...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. Pilot checking his safety equipment with an intelligence officer. The object in his hand is a plug to screw into bullet holes in the rubber boat

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patro...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a boat in a harbor, water, fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Steel-saving glass-top jars recommended by the War Production Board, Containers Division, for home canning of the Victory garden fruits and vegetables in 1943. To open the jar, insert knife between glass lid and rubber ring

Steel-saving glass-top jars recommended by the War Production Board, C...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rubber trees, Lake Worth - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Rubber trees, Lake Worth - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain photograph - historical image of Florida, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dental work in Hospital. Hood Rubber Co., Cambridge. Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Dental work in Hospital. Hood Rubber Co., Cambridge. Location: Cambri...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, salon, office, late 19th-century interior, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Rubber tree in U.S. barracks, Key West, Fla.

Rubber tree in U.S. barracks, Key West, Fla.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, woods, trees, arbor, outdoors, romantic landscape, 17th-18th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lee Tire & Rubber Company, Plant, 1100 Hector Avenue, Conshohocken, Montgomery County, PA

Lee Tire & Rubber Company, Plant, 1100 Hector Avenue, Conshohocken, Mo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a commercial or residential multi-story building, condominium, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lee Tire & Rubber Company, Plant, 1100 Hector Avenue, Conshohocken, Montgomery County, PA

Lee Tire & Rubber Company, Plant, 1100 Hector Avenue, Conshohocken, Mo...

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Goodyear Rubber Company, 6701 South Central Avenue, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Goodyear Rubber Company, 6701 South Central Avenue, Los Angeles, Los A...

Significance: Goodyear Rubber Company was the first tire manufacturing company on the West Coast. By the mid-1920's, other tire companies followed Goodyear's lead and established facilities on the West Coast. ... More

Goodyear Rubber Company, 6701 South Central Avenue, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Goodyear Rubber Company, 6701 South Central Avenue, Los Angeles, Los A...

Significance: Goodyear Rubber Company was the first tire manufacturing company on the West Coast. By the mid-1920's, other tire companies followed Goodyear's lead and established facilities on the West Coast. ... More

Goodyear Rubber Company, 6701 South Central Avenue, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Goodyear Rubber Company, 6701 South Central Avenue, Los Angeles, Los A...

Significance: Goodyear Rubber Company was the first tire manufacturing company on the West Coast. By the mid-1920's, other tire companies followed Goodyear's lead and established facilities on the West Coast. ... More

Goodyear Rubber Company, 6701 South Central Avenue, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Goodyear Rubber Company, 6701 South Central Avenue, Los Angeles, Los A...

Significance: Goodyear Rubber Company was the first tire manufacturing company on the West Coast. By the mid-1920's, other tire companies followed Goodyear's lead and established facilities on the West Coast. ... More

Goodyear Rubber Company, 6701 South Central Avenue, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Goodyear Rubber Company, 6701 South Central Avenue, Los Angeles, Los A...

Significance: Goodyear Rubber Company was the first tire manufacturing company on the West Coast. By the mid-1920's, other tire companies followed Goodyear's lead and established facilities on the West Coast. ... More

[Model of rubber industry in jungle, Milwaukee Public Museum]

[Model of rubber industry in jungle, Milwaukee Public Museum]

Public domain photograph - historical image of Wisconsin, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Stock room of a large rubber factory--Automobile Tire Department, Akron, Ohio

Stock room of a large rubber factory--Automobile Tire Department, Akro...

J224175 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 22062. Public domain photograph of industrial revolution, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A.F. of L. and C.I.O. start peace conferences. Washington, D.C., Oct. 25. Labor leaders named by the CIO and A.F. of L. to attempt to find a basis for peace between the two warring factions of organized labor are sown here at the opening of the Peace Parley at the Willard Hotel here today. Seated, left to right: Sidney Hillman, Amalgamated Clothing Workers, CIO; George M. Harrison, Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, AFL.; Phillip Murray, United Mine Workers, CIO; David Dubinsky, International Ladies Garment Workers, CIO. Standing, left to right: Abram Flaxer, CIO; Joseph Curran, National Maritime Union, CIO; Harvey Fremming, Oil Workers Union, CIO; Michael J. Quill, Transport Workers Union, CIO; Matthew Woll, Photo Engravers Union, AFL; G.M. Dugnizaet, International Electrical Workers, AF of L; Homer Martin, U.A.W., CIO; James Garey, CIO; S.H. Dalrymple, United Rubber Workers, CIO. 10/25/37

A.F. of L. and C.I.O. start peace conferences. Washington, D.C., Oct. ...

A group of men standing around a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa. Haifa. The Palestine Electric Cable Works. Winding of rubber insulated wire

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Copper. Rubber lining for large capacity centrifugal pumps are necessary for the pumping of copper sludge and concentrates at the mills of the Utah Copper Company at Magna and Arthur in Utah

Production. Copper. Rubber lining for large capacity centrifugal pumps...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Robert T. Williams, Priority Specialist, Rubber and Rubber Products, Office of Production Management (OPM)

Robert T. Williams, Priority Specialist, Rubber and Rubber Products, O...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, office meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Here is one of the old-fashioned rolling machines which may still be found, in diminishing quantity in rubber plants in the Netherlands East Indies. These workers are flattening latex slices into sheet for shipment

Here is one of the old-fashioned rolling machines which may still be f...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of discarded casings cover more than 100 acres at one Midwest recovery plant. Systematic piling and sectional arrangement reduce fire hazard. Special processes will separate metal from the tires and tube bodies. The reclaimed material will be used to manufacture thousands of essential mechanical rubber products. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of dis...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Priorities unemployment. No more money. John Jones, silk worker, is a victim of "priorities unemployment." It might have been James Smith, rubber worker. It might have been anybody. The "priorities unemployment" is part of a process of changing over, of retooling. And it's a temporary part, in most cases. Defense industries are expanding. In the long run, the defense program will make more jobs than it will break. It has already created 4,000,000 new jobs and there will be 2,500,000 more by April 1942. Production skills are needed for defense, John Jones'skills, James Smith's skills. How does "man meet job?"

Priorities unemployment. No more money. John Jones, silk worker, is a ...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Laboratory exhibit. This specimen shows the "worms" of rubber on top and the bagasse settled to the bottom, which is exactly what happens in regular factory operations of rubber extraction

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Laboratory exh...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Rubber reclamation. They help produce reclaimed rubber. Workers at a big Midwest recovery plant where junked rubber is prepared for processing into thousands of essential products. In many of these products reclaimed material serves better than raw rubber. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. They help produce reclaimed rubber. Workers at a b...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Auto "graveyards" where old worn out automobiles are stripped of usable parts. Non-ferrous materials are burned out and the steel chassis and bodies are sent on to scrap iron and steel dealers. Such yards as these supply tons of scrap iron, steel and rubber yearly which is now being used to alleviate shortages in

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Auto "graveyards" where old worn o...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Malaya - Britain pursues "scorched earth" policy ... British forces in Malaya have burnt thousands of bales of rubber, destroyed rubber factories and smashed machinery. Indian sappers and miners are seen mining a bridge near Kuala Lumpur.

Malaya - Britain pursues "scorched earth" policy ... British forces in...

British Official photo: FLM.798. No. BO-890. Notation on recto: Still photograph from a motion picture on the destruction of supplies and facilities as the British Army retreated. Forms part of: FSA/OWI Collec... More

Barrage balloon manufacture. Neck and neck in the stretch. Appearing like race horses galloping down each side of a long strip of barrage balloon fabric, the worker with the scissors apparently finishing ahead of the fellow with the electric fabric cutter. Actually the scissors are not used for cutting, but for "touch up clipping" only, since the power cutter is so much faster. After these men have cut the patterns, the pieces are sent to "seamers" who assemble the individual pattern pieces into strips of "gores," which in turn are assembled into completed barrage balloons. General Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio

Barrage balloon manufacture. Neck and neck in the stretch. Appearing l...

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Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Laboratory exhibit. This specimen shows the "worms" of rubber on top and tha bagasse settled to the bottom, which is exactly what happens in regular factory operations of rubber extraction

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Laboratory exh...

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The Navy uses enormous amounts of rubber. At least seventy-five tons of rubber, enough to makes 17,000 tires, are used in the construction of each of these battleships. Tons more are needed for the naval planes that are making history over the world. Medical and communication requirements--and countless other needs of the Navy--are met

The Navy uses enormous amounts of rubber. At least seventy-five tons o...

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Salinas, California. Combined guayule harvester and chopper designed and built by Intercontinental Rubber Producers

Salinas, California. Combined guayule harvester and chopper designed a...

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Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Dr. William B. McCallum, manager who had been with the company since 1910 and is reputed to be the world's outstanding expert in guayule culture

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Dr. William B....

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A huge and rapidly increasing supply of tracks for Army halftrac cars comes from one Ohio tire plant alone. Traveling chain hoists carry tracks from the curing press to trimming racks on which curing plates and overflowing edges of rubber are removed. Goodrich, Akron, Ohio

A huge and rapidly increasing supply of tracks for Army halftrac cars ...

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Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Transplanting seedlings from the guayule nursery into the field in a demonstration. This machine as well as all others used in cultivation of guayule was designed and built mostly from standard parts at the Salinas farm

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Transplanting ...

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Barrage balloon manufacture. Folding instructions. Supervisor Howard Swires instructs a worker at barrage balloon department in the technique of folding fabric patterns to make efficient use of all working space. General Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio

Barrage balloon manufacture. Folding instructions. Supervisor Howard S...

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Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Digger of seedlings in the guayule nursery

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Digger of seed...

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Rubber track cross plates, length thirteen inches

Rubber track cross plates, length thirteen inches

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Barrage balloon manufacture. Seamers at work. Putting rubber cement on both surfaces which are to be fastened together, these workers assemble individual pattern pieces into strips or "gores" for barrage balloons being made for army balloon corps. By an ingenious arrangement of folds, strips nearly a hundred feet long can be handled by each worker on the table in front of him. General Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio

Barrage balloon manufacture. Seamers at work. Putting rubber cement on...

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Rubber reclamation. Producing reclaimed rubber. Rubber scrap, obtained by dissolving and washing away all fibrous materials, passes through a steaming operation. It will then go through the drying, refining and other xylos processes at a big Midwest plant that is recovering large quantities for war essentials. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Producing reclaimed rubber. Rubber scrap, obtained...

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Civilian defense. There's not much that is omitted in the equipment of these special gas and electrical emergency trucks. On the floor in front of the trunk are, left to right, the following items: a fitter's kit for repairing small gas leaks; a rubberized blanket for electrical work; an atmosphere testing machine; an inhalator; a Phister fire extinguisher; an air blower ; a lux fire extinguisher kit; a splicer's kit containing insulated hand tools; a fuse kit; a manhole guard rail and a rubber mat for electrical work. The worker at the left is wearing a special mask with a half-hour suplly of oxygen for use where a fresh air hose is not practical. He is also wearing rubber gloves for repair work. The man standing in the center is holding a hand operated manhole pump. The truck and its equipment were on display at Madison Square Garden, New York, as part of the huge civilian defense show held there in October

Civilian defense. There's not much that is omitted in the equipment of...

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Barrage balloon manufacture. Handling ropes and fingers. Frayed ropes are attached to the rubberized fabric "fingers" by sewing and cementing to give maximum "grip" on the balloon. Such ropes are fastened to the ground cable which controls the height and flight of the balloon. General Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio

Barrage balloon manufacture. Handling ropes and fingers. Frayed ropes ...

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Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Storage batteries, with valuable rubber casing are among the objects in warehouse of wholesale junk dealer

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Storage batt...

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Manpower, junior size. Too young to help? Not the youngsters of Roanoke, Virginia. They're out to win the war by gathering up every piece of scrap metal, every bit of worn-out rubber, and all waste fats and greases in the town

Manpower, junior size. Too young to help? Not the youngsters of Roanok...

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Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Rubber scrap in a wholesale junkyard

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Rubber scrap...

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Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Mechanical seedling digger working in a guayule bed. The digger is a four foot long blade which is drawn through the ground under the plants, cutting the roots loose and uprooting the plants. Guayule plantings will produce an estimated 600 tons of rubber in early 1943, provide a crop in 1944 which should yield 33,000 tons and a harvest in 1945 to yield 47,000 tons. An annual production of 70,000 tons to 80,000 tons will materialize if full capacity of nurseries now being built is utilized. Addition: This program is part of the Department of Agriculture's Emergency Rubber Project, administered by the Forest Service under congressional authorization "to make available a source of crude rubber for emergency and defense uses"

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Mechanical seedling digger working i...

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Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Fitting the steel tire to the wagon wheel assembly in the plant of a Southern wagon company which is experiencing a business boom because of the rubber shortage

Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Fitting the steel ti...

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Interlochen, Michigan. National music camp where 300 or more young musicians study symphonic music for eight weeks each summer. Girls playing with large rubber ball in water

Interlochen, Michigan. National music camp where 300 or more young mus...

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Scrap rubber drive at Washington Irving High School, New York City. Left to right: Susan Balint, Henrietta Morris and Ann Muzycka, seniors gathering in various rubber articles which students of the school found in their homes. Note in the background jingle dedicated to the national salvage drive

Scrap rubber drive at Washington Irving High School, New York City. Le...

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Salvage. Chicago automobile graveyard. Idle scrap: it belongs in the scrap. Covering well over an acre of ground, this automobile graveyard in Chicago holds tons of vital scrap metal and rubber for which Uncle Sam has urgent need in the manufacture of armaments and other war materials

Salvage. Chicago automobile graveyard. Idle scrap: it belongs in the s...

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Salvage. Chicago automobile graveyard. Idle scrap: it belongs in the scrap. Covering well over an acre of ground, this automobile graveyard in Chicago holds tons of vital scrap metal and rubber for which Uncle Sam has urgent need in the manufacture of armaments and other war materials

Salvage. Chicago automobile graveyard. Idle scrap: it belongs in the s...

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