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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...

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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...

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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...

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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]

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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. ...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a ship, docks, navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

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

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tractor, farming equipment, agriculture, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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 ...

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

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...

Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

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...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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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Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. Sheila gets off next. Walt and Jerry, the only two left, are neighbors and live nearby. Jerry lives about 10 1/2 miles from the plant, works six days a week and drives twenty-one miles a day. 6000 miles a year just getting to and from work. All these riders, except Mary, formerly drove their own cars and piled up a daily total of eighty-three miles. This single example of car pooling results in a seventy-five percent reduction of rubber

Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. Sheila gets off next. Walt and Jerry, th...

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Because of the rubber shortage, many planes roll along assembly lines and onto the flight ramp on wooden wheels

Because of the rubber shortage, many planes roll along assembly lines ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

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

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Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Assembling wagon running gear in a Southern wagon plant which is receiving a rush of orders these days as a result of the rubber shortage

Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Assembling wagon run...

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Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). Now thoroughly dried, these sheets of synthetic rubber are packed in larger paper drums, each holding 200 pounds for shipment. Goodrich

Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). Now thoroughly dried, these sheets of syn...

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

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

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Washington, D.C. "I'll carry mine," a campaign to conserve transportation facilities and thus save rubber and gasoline. Young woman shopping

Washington, D.C. "I'll carry mine," a campaign to conserve transportat...

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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. First step in sealing a jar is to fit the wet, sterilized rubber ring around the projection on the underside of the glass lid, also sterilized

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

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Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. Alfred Speckman, a flyer, in his rubber crash suit

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

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Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Worker carrying a rubber hose

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Worker carrying a ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, 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. Let the jar stand for twelve hours by which time it will have cooled thoroughly. After this the screw bands may be removed permanently since the glass lid and the rubber ring provide a complete seal, with no danger of food spoilage

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

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Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., Columbia Chemical Division, Barberton, Ohio. Laboratory, rubber mill

Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., Columbia Chemical Division, Barberton, Ohi...

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

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

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

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Packing crude rubber, Para, Brazil, center of Amazon river-system trade

Packing crude rubber, Para, Brazil, center of Amazon river-system trad...

J179846 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright Underwood & Underwood. No. 11199. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Rubber Shop, California Avenue, west side across from Dry Dock 1 near Ninth Street, Vallejo, Solano County, CA

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Rubber Shop, California Avenue, west side ...

Significance: Building 50 is a contributing element of the Mare Island Historic District. Built in 1871, it is a key component of a cluster of brick industrial buildings located at the core of the historic shi... 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

[Tapping a rubber tree, Motagua Valley, Guatemala]

[Tapping a rubber tree, Motagua Valley, Guatemala]

Picryl description: Public domain image of trees, forest, park, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Rubber, coffee, and banana trees

Rubber, coffee, and banana trees

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[Rubber plantations, Java?, 1914]: 3-year-old trees, Soengei Sikassim Estate

[Rubber plantations, Java?, 1914]: 3-year-old trees, Soengei Sikassim ...

Photo copyrighted by General Rubber Co., N.Y. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Java; Rubber; Shelf.

Sam Pine, 8-year-old truant newsboy, who lives at 717 W. California St. Said: "I was late getting up and don't want to get the rubber tube fo[r] being tardy so I staid away to-day." Photographed during school hours. Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.

Sam Pine, 8-year-old truant newsboy, who lives at 717 W. California St...

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Lt. R.E. Byrd, U.S.N. with rubber life boat, [4/27/25]

Lt. R.E. Byrd, U.S.N. with rubber life boat, [4/27/25]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Finished products. Synthetic rubber somes from the drier and is fed to an automatic weighing machine which delivers seventy-five pounds of material to the baler at the plant operated by United States Rubber Company at Institute, West Virginia. Thousands of these rubber loaves will be produced every day

Finished products. Synthetic rubber somes from the drier and is fed to...

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Rubber band snapper Norris. Washington, D.C., March 12. The whang, whang, of a heavy rubber band in the hands of Senator George Norris, of Nebraska today interrupted the proceedings at the Senate Judiciary Supreme Court hearing, the noise reverberated in the marble caucus room. Finally Chairman Ashurst stood up and said: "However, I should like to ask the audience to quit shuffling around, to cease fiffling papers and stop snapping rubber bands." Norris flushed, scowled and put his hands in his pockets, Norris is shown with his rubber band during the lull...

Rubber band snapper Norris. Washington, D.C., March 12. The whang, wha...

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One of the busiest ports of the Pacific is that of Batavia, metropolis of the island of Java, Netherlands East Indies. The bulk of our rubber and tin supplies pass through this port

One of the busiest ports of the Pacific is that of Batavia, metropolis...

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Conversion. Army truck parts. An electric flash welding machine sending a million sparks into the air during the process of merging the two ends of a bogie roller ring at a large Midwest rubber factory now converted to war production. These rollers, placed inside the steel and rubber tanks tracks, are used to support the weight of Army tanks

Conversion. Army truck parts. An electric flash welding machine sendin...

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Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. "Worms," the form that guayule takes after being chopped and crushed and put in settling tanks

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. "Worms," the f...

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Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Guayule rubber "worms." In the factory the guayule shrub is put through various choppers and crushers while mixed with liquids. After being crushed and rolled, it goes to settling tanks where these "worms" form as the bagasse sinks to the bottom. Later the "worms" are dried and go through rollers to form a cake of rubber

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Guayule rubber...

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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...

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The guillotine. Having slid down the trough on the lower left, the bale of raw rubber is now being squeezed against the knife blades on the left under terrific pressure. These blades fan out into eight selections, cut the rubber into eights like an orange divides into sections. General Tires (Firestone), Akron, Ohio

The guillotine. Having slid down the trough on the lower left, the bal...

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Tubes are extruded. Much as meat is forced through a grinder, tube rubber is forced through this machine and out the opening at the end, which allows an even flow of rubber to make a seamless rubber tube. Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

Tubes are extruded. Much as meat is forced through a grinder, tube rub...

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Assault boat Production. Building assault boats for U.S. Marine Corps. Coat of rubber cement is applied wherever fixtures are to be attached and method of applying them is quite similar to applying a repair patch to an automobile inner tube. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Assault boat Production. Building assault boats for U.S. Marine Corps....

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Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Guayule seedlings in the nursery

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Guayule seedli...

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Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Demonstration of digger used in guayule nursery. In actual operations, the tops of the plants are cut off by the mower before they are dug. When transplanted, the guayule seedlings weigh about two grams

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Demonstration ...

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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...

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Rubber reclamation. Recovering rubber from old tires. In the central wash tanks of a large Midwest plant employing the xylos process, agitated water removes dirt, treated fiber and excess fiber solvent. This operation follows removal of bead portions from scrap casings, breaking of casings into small pieces and dissolving of fiber in caustic soda. The resultant phases of rubber are then pumped to dewatering sources. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Recovering rubber from old tires. In the central w...

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

Rubber in storage. Number one U.S. stockpile. Crude rubber stored at points throughout the country is ample for all the needs of our armed forces. Boxes and bales weighing 250 pounds are stored in heating and thawing rooms to bring them to the proper temperature for processing

Rubber in storage. Number one U.S. stockpile. Crude rubber stored at p...

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Barrage balloon manufacture. Tugging a finished half of a barrage balloon into position for joining with the other half. These workers have come to the final assembly step in producing barrage balloons for American air defense. Four steps in final production are shown in this photo: the half-balloon they are dragging in; the nose of a ship on the right which is in the process of being deflated for packing and shipping; and the inflated balloon in the background which is being inspected for final okay before being shipped. General Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio

Barrage balloon manufacture. Tugging a finished half of a barrage ball...

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Washington, D.C. Boy contributing rubber ball to rubber salvage pile in Georgia Avenue filling station

Washington, D.C. Boy contributing rubber ball to rubber salvage pile i...

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Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Assembling wagon running gear in a Southern wagon plant which is receiving a rush of orders these days as a result of the rubber shortage

Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Assembling wagon run...

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Detroit, Michigan. Result of constructive suggestions placed by workers in a box for this purpose in the Cadillac motor car division of General Motors Corporation(?). Leather cuffs are saved by gluing new rubber gloves within the cuffs rather than buying an entire new glove

Detroit, Michigan. Result of constructive suggestions placed by worker...

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Washington, D.C. District Salvage Committee sign and rubber salvage pile at gas station on Georgia Avenue

Washington, D.C. District Salvage Committee sign and rubber salvage pi...

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Manpower, junior size. These hardy determined young fighters of the Jamison Elementary School in Roanoke, Virginia, are bent upon doing their best as members of Uncle Sam's newest home front fighting team, the junior army. Their teacher is explaining the seriousness of Uncle Sam's scrap metal, rubber, and fats shortage and how they are to be mobilized to collect this vital scrap

Manpower, junior size. These hardy determined young fighters of the Ja...

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Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). This is the cutting and trimming table, where newly-rolled sheets of synthetic rubber are cut to size for the drying pans. Goodrich

Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). This is the cutting and trimming table, w...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Thousands of sheet metal plane parts are formed daily in the drop hammer department of North American Aviation, Incorporated at Inglewood, California. Hemp rope and the rubber in the mold on the press are used to snub and control the impact of the hammer. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Thousands of sheet metal pl...

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Salinas Valley, California. Guayule rubber being processed

Salinas Valley, California. Guayule rubber being processed

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Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). Carefully selected soap is used in the making of solutions used during the manufacture of synthetic rubber. This worker is mixing a solution at the B.F. Goodrich plant, in Akron, Ohio. It is mixed in a nickel-lined tank. Goodrich

Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). Carefully selected soap is used in the ma...

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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...

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Moyen Congo bush, French Equatorial Africa. The trading activities of Africa. Rubber

Moyen Congo bush, French Equatorial Africa. The trading activities of ...

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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...

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