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Salvage. Des Moines collection center. A Des Moines garage and salvage center strings up a "come on" display of rubber articles to stimulate contributions

Salvage. Des Moines collection center. A Des Moines garage and salvage...

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

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

Lebango, Moyen Congo bush, French Equatorial Africa. Monthly wild rubber market at which natives sell what they have gathered to administered or commercial representatives. On this long table made of branches, the natives deposit their rubber while they await their turn at the scales

Lebango, Moyen Congo bush, French Equatorial Africa. Monthly wild rubb...

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

Chicago, Illinois. Ticket seller making out a ticket for a passenger at the Union Station. On the panel are rubber stamps of the most frequent destinations. Other stations are written in on the ticket

Chicago, Illinois. Ticket seller making out a ticket for a passenger a...

Public domain photograph of 1930s industry, war production in the United States free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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

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

Lebango, Moyen Congo, French Equatorial Africa. A store where the natives buy what they need after they sell the wild rubber they had gathered at the monthly rubber market

Lebango, Moyen Congo, French Equatorial Africa. A store where the nati...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Annotation on original negative jacket. Image source: Brazzaville Bureau, Office of War Information (OWI). Title and other information from caption car... More

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

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

Public domain photograph - historic landmark, 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

The original rubber store, under Goodyear's patent. Established in 1839 ... C. Hayes, 26 School St., Boston [1861].

The original rubber store, under Goodyear's patent. Established in 183...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 68, Folder 25.

Rubber trees near Palm Beach - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Rubber trees near Palm Beach - Public domain image. Dry plate negative...

Public domain photograph - historic landmark, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Native tapping Cultivated Rubber Tree with Machete (New Way)

Native tapping Cultivated Rubber Tree with Machete (New Way)

[Rubber plantations in Sumatra: Trees, 2 years old, Kisaran Estate, Kisaran]

[Rubber plantations in Sumatra: Trees, 2 years old, Kisaran Estate, Ki...

J221234 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.

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 an aircraft, aviator, 1910s-1920s, early 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Uncle Sam istrying to find a way for automobile tires to wear longer for 25,000,000 motorists. Wearing specimens of rubber to ... that then 25,000,000 owners of automobiles may have tires that last longer is a ... now in progress at the Bureau of Standards. W.L. Holt of the Rubber Section is shown with a new abrasive machine that rubs ... of rubber away or to a thinness that ... determine their relative wearing quality

Uncle Sam istrying to find a way for automobile tires to wear longer f...

A man working on a machine in a factory, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data on negative or negative sleeve. On sleeve: Watch Your Credit Line. Gift; Harris & Ewi... More

Drying. Synthetic rubber is dried by passing back and forth three times in giant driers, each capable of handling 3,000 pounds of rubber an hour, at the Institute plant. Each drier is equipped with thirty-three fans, and 140 tons of water are evaporated every day

Drying. Synthetic rubber is dried by passing back and forth three time...

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.

Butadiene and styrene production. Butadiene units (in the foreground) and styrene units (in the background) which produce the two basic chemicals for the production of Buna S Rubber at the Institute plant at Institute, West Virginia

Butadiene and styrene production. Butadiene units (in the foreground) ...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to an industrial revolution, industry history, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Schoolboy patrols march. Washington, D.C., May 7. Reports that 800 war veterans with rubber hoses were mobilizing to prevent their speeches denouncing Mayor Hague in Jersey City tonight failed to halt the plans of Reps. Jerry O'Connell, (D. Mont.) and John T. Bernard, (F.L. Minn.) who are shown leaving Union Station with their wives. In the photograph (front) are Mary Bernard, daughter of Minnesota Solon; Rep. Bernard, and Rep. O'Connell. In the rear are Mrs. bernard and Mrs O'Connell. 5/7/38

Schoolboy patrols march. Washington, D.C., May 7. Reports that 800 war...

A group of people standing next to a train. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man working on a horse, Texas, during Great Depression

A black and white photo of a man working on a horse, Texas, during Gre...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s great depression, dust bowl era, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tracks for Army halftracs cars, made of rubber firmly bonded to steel members, are cured under heat and pressure in tracks molds which are first sprayed with a mold lubricant. The work is done in an Ohio tire plant. Goodrich, Akron, Ohio

Tracks for Army halftracs cars, made of rubber firmly bonded to steel ...

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

Salinas, California. Spreading guayule seed out for drying in the nursery of the Intercontinental Rubber Producers

Salinas, California. Spreading guayule seed out for drying in the nurs...

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

Ride together - work together - save rubber for victory

Ride together - work together - save rubber for victory

Poster promoting commuting and working together as part of the war effort. Philadelphia Metropolitan War Transportation Committee - Mayor Bernard Samuel - Robert A. Mitchell, Administrator. Work Projects Admini... More

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 image of a romantic ruins landscape, classical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Checking fabric rolling off calendar. Through this calendaring machine, the heated cords are squeezed through warm rubber under terrific pressure which completely insulates each individual cord in its own sheath of rubber, and produces an extremely strong fabric of the weftless type. Close watch is kept to maintain uniform thickness and texture at all times. In front of the worker is the trough into which a fresh supply of special gum rubber is constantly being added. Firestone (General Tires), Akron, Ohio

Checking fabric rolling off calendar. Through this calendaring machine...

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

Workmen handling section of rubber conveyor belt which transports gravel to Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California

Workmen handling section of rubber conveyor belt which transports grav...

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

Barrage balloon manufacture. Fin-shaping cords. These workers are inside the rear-right horizontal fin of a barrage balloon, checking the ropes which give the fin shape and hold it together. Since barrage balloons are non-rigid and entirely collapsible, these ropes come closest to being the "back-bone" for the gigantic "defenders of cities." General Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio

Barrage balloon manufacture. Fin-shaping cords. These workers are insi...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s bridge, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tank armor production. Abrasive cleaning operators who prepare mill plates for processing into tank armor must wear protective clothing of heavy rubber. Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation. Farrell, Pennsylvania

Tank armor production. Abrasive cleaning operators who prepare mill pl...

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

Rubber track guide, length four and three-quarters inches

Rubber track guide, length four and three-quarters inches

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

A man in a hat holding a bush. Office of War Information Photograph

A man in a hat holding a bush. Office of War Information Photograph

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Cultivating two-year-old guayule shrubs

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Cultivating tw...

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

Rubber reclamation. Producing reclaimed rubber. One of the machines used in converting scrap rubber into reclaim stock in a large Midwest plant which utilizes old tires in making sheet rubber. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Producing reclaimed rubber. One of the machines us...

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.

Gravel on long rubber conveyor belt at Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California

Gravel on long rubber conveyor belt at Shasta Dam, Shasta County, Cali...

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

Rubber reclamation. Reclaiming rubber from scrap tires. An attendant at a large Midwest xylos process plant checks temperature on a continuous belt dryer which removes every trace of water. Recovery of rubber from old casings is based on dissolving and washing away all tire fibers and processing the resultant rubber material. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Reclaiming rubber from scrap tires. An attendant a...

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

Rubber reclamation. Harvesting rubber from discarded tires. Scrap rubber, reclaimed by dissolving and washing out the fibrous materials in old casings, goes through the first refining process in a big Midwest plant. The cleaned, plasticized scrap passes through rolls which carry off dirt and foreign particles at the sides. The refined rubber is then gathered in sheets for further steps in the xylos process. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Harvesting rubber from discarded tires. Scrap rubb...

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.

Aircraft tire manufacture. Inspector in rubber factory checks large airplane tire prior to preparation for shipment. Stack of airplane tires for a famous American fighter are shown in background. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Aircraft tire manufacture. Inspector in rubber factory checks large ai...

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

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...

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.

Rubber stock for the track treads of scout cars and other Army halftrac vehicles is milled in one Ohio tire plant. All rubber firmly "welded" to the steel parts is formed into one tough durable piece. Goodrich, Akron, Ohio

Rubber stock for the track treads of scout cars and other Army halftra...

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Barrage balloon manufacture. Lineup of cementers. Assembling patterns into gores which in turn are assembled into balloon sections, these workers are charged with making seams strong and gas-tight, since the full tug of gas from the inside, and rigging on the outside is exerted on these sections. General Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio

Barrage balloon manufacture. Lineup of cementers. Assembling patterns ...

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

Fill 'er up! Tugging at the large hose, known as the "inflation sleeve", this worker stands inside the "manhole" of a new barrage balloon to guide the sleeve into the opening through which it will pump air to test the giant rubber balloon for leaks. General Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio

Fill 'er up! Tugging at the large hose, known as the "inflation sleeve...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a monument or sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Salinas, California. Demonstration of combined guayule harvester and chopper at the Intercontinental Rubber Producers

Salinas, California. Demonstration of combined guayule harvester and c...

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

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.

Grant County, Oregon. Malheur National Forest. Lumberjack making a "rubberman". This rubberman is used when a lumberjack who is sawing down a tree does not have a partner. The cross-saw is attached to the heavy rubber belt which holds saw secure while one man saws

Grant County, Oregon. Malheur National Forest. Lumberjack making a "ru...

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

Tire retreading. His face protected from flying rubber dust, this worker at a large recap plant in the east is buffing off the remains of the old tread before the actual recapping process gets under way

Tire retreading. His face protected from flying rubber dust, this work...

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

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.

Conversion. Beverage containers to aviation oxygen cylinders. Once the two-half cylinders are joined together into a complete shatterproof high altitude flying oxygen cylinder on the production line of a huge rubber factory now producing metal essential for the Army, all traces of inside weld scale must be removed to prevent contamination of oxygen. In this process, a special chemical solution is drawn through the cylinder at controlled temperature and all foreign matter is removed. Firestone, Akron, Ohio

Conversion. Beverage containers to aviation oxygen cylinders. Once the...

Picryl description: Public domain image of people, meeting, eating, drinking, food, beverage, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). After the milling process, where crumbs of synthetic rubber are pressed into sheets, then trimmed to size and cooled, the sheets are placed in the charging and discharging vacuum dryers. As each is removed, another replaces it. Goodrich

Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). After the milling process, where crumbs o...

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

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...

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

Manpower, junior size. "Any scrap for Uncle Sam?" Captain Charles Wentworth, a junior commando in Roanoke, Virginia, hands Mrs. John Farr a leaflet announcing the hunt for precious metal and rubber. Units of three children to a block combed every house for scrap and brought it to their own houses where city trucks carted it away

Manpower, junior size. "Any scrap for Uncle Sam?" Captain Charles Went...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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...

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

Production of butylene glycol. A department scientist checks the results of experimental fermentations of corn to produce butylene glycol at the Northern Regional Research Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Agriculture at Peoria, Illinois. This research led to the development of a semi-commercial scale of a fermentation process for converting corn into butylene glycol, a chemical that can be used in making anti-freeze for automobiles and in the production of commercial solvents for various purposes. Studies are now underway to devise a practical method for turning butylene glycol into butadiene, from which synthetic rubber can be made. The work has already been done on a laboratory scale

Production of butylene glycol. A department scientist checks the resul...

Public domain photograph of laboratory, scientist, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversion. Tire plant. This vulcanizing unit, largest in the world, was designed for the vulcanizing of giant tires used on earth-moving machinery, but is now helping out the war program by vulcanizing self-sealing gas tanks for the nation's war planes. The special mold containing the tank is being lowered into position in the tire vulcanizing unit. When it is in place, the huge cover of the unit will be lowered into position and closed. The heat will then be turned on to cure the raw rubber of the gas tank

Conversion. Tire plant. This vulcanizing unit, largest in the world, w...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a machine, industrial equipment, engine, generator, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

World production of rubber. The increase in production of rubber between 1930 and 1940 parallels the growth of the automobile. In 1940 all but a few shiploads of the 1,000,000 long tons produced in the world came from Malaya, the Netherlands, the East Indies, Ceylon and other East Indian sources. The greatest part of this was shipped to the United States. Since the war, more than ninety-eight percent of our sources of supply of crude rubber have been lost

World production of rubber. The increase in production of rubber betwe...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

World production of rubber. The increase in production of rubber between 1930 and 1940 parallels the growth of the automobile. In 1940 all but a few shiploads of the 1,000,000 long tons produced in the world came from Malaya, the Netherlands, the East Indies, Ceylon and other East Indian sources. The greatest part of this was shipped to the United States. Since the war, more than ninety-eight percent of our sources of supply of crude rubber have been lost

World production of rubber. The increase in production of rubber betwe...

Actual size of negative is B (approximately 5 x 7 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Conversion. Beverage containers to aviation oxygen cylinders. The first step in the manufacture of high-altitude-flying shatterproof oxygen cylinders in the metal department of a large rubber factory is the forming or stamping of the shell. Stainless steel sheets are blanked or cut into discs(left foreground). Before stamping, these discs are drawn through rolls where a drawing compound is added to both sides to facilitate the forming of the shell. The 750-ton toggle press, shown above, forms a half cylinder in one powerful stroke. Once the half cylinder is formed, it is trimmed and the value-fitting hole is punched into the spherical dome. A cleaning operation later removes the drawing compound. The cylinder halves are now ready for the various welding operations. Firestone, Akron, Ohio

Conversion. Beverage containers to aviation oxygen cylinders. The firs...

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

Baltimore, Maryland. Welding damaged steel plates which hold rubber sandwiches in the wheels of PCC trolleys at the machine shop of the Washington terminal, maintenance plant of the Baltimore Transit Company

Baltimore, Maryland. Welding damaged steel plates which hold rubber sa...

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

Tire recapping. A service attendant points out a worn tire that may be recapped under a new plan which removes restrictions on reclaimed camelback rubber for passenger tires. The plan to recap passenger car 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 service attendant points out a worn tire that may be...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Lebango, Moyen Congo, French Equatorial Africa. A store where the natives buy what they need after they sell the wild rubber they had gathered at the monthly rubber market

Lebango, Moyen Congo, French Equatorial Africa. A store where the nati...

Public domain photograph of 1930s industry, war production in the United States free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Buffalo, New York. A Sunday afternoon meeting of the rubber workers union. Despite the fact that the industry has only recently employed women, many of them are attending the meeting

Buffalo, New York. A Sunday afternoon meeting of the rubber workers un...

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

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...

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

Tire recapping. Removing a recapped passenger car tire from a curing mold. Before the curing process the tread surface had been ground down evenly and had a strip of reclaimed camelback rubber attached to it. The plan to recap passenger tires with 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. Removing a recapped passenger car tire from a curing m...

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.

Tire recapping. "Cooking" a recapped passenger car tire in a curing mold. The recap is made by applying passenger type reclaimed camelback to a worn casing on which the tread surface had previously been ground down evenly. 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. "Cooking" a recapped passenger car tire in a curing mo...

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

Tire recapping. A recap job on a passenger car tire. The tire with a tread strip of reclaimed camelback rubber is put into a curing mold. The old tread surface had previously been ground down evenly and coated with rubber adhesive. 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 recap job on a passenger car tire. The tire with a t...

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.

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

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

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

Operating track, covered with rubber flooring, and crossed with lines 12 inches apart, over which the animals are caused to run

Operating track, covered with rubber flooring, and crossed with lines ...

Illus. in: The attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs illustrating the consecutive positions assumed by animals in performing various movements; executed at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and... More

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 of factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New Jersey Rubber Shoe Company Building No. 9, Burnet Street, New Brunswick, Middlesex County, NJ

New Jersey Rubber Shoe Company Building No. 9, Burnet Street, New Brun...

Significance: Built in 1877, this is the oldest factory building of an important early rubber company. Survey number: HABS NJ-720 Building/structure dates: 1882 Initial Construction

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

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[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...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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...

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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

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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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