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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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...

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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

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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...

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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

Rubber tree, Lake Worth, Fla. - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Rubber tree, Lake Worth, Fla. - Glass negative photogrpah. Public doma...

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Coagulated rubber - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Coagulated rubber - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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[Rubber plantations, Java?, 1914]: tapping trees on Soengei Sikassim Estate

[Rubber plantations, Java?, 1914]: tapping trees on Soengei Sikassim E...

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

Blending. Many batches of synthetic rubber latex are batched and blended in concrete storage tanks at the Institute plant. This blending assures uniformity of the product. After blending the rubber content is separated by coagulation

Blending. Many batches of synthetic rubber latex are batched and blend...

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Storage. Butadiene, chief ingredient of synthetic rubber, is stored in nine tanks at the Institute plant operated by the United States Rubber Company at Institute, West Virginia. These tanks will hold butadiene for three days operations, the equivalent of more than 180,000 passenger car tires

Storage. Butadiene, chief ingredient of synthetic rubber, is stored in...

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"Beaten up for union activities." Washington, D.C., March 18. Testifying before the Lafollette Civil Liberties Committee today, John H. Dalrymple, President of the United Rubber Workers of America, related details of a "beating up" administered to him in Gadsen, Ala, last June which resulted in his hopitalization for several weeks with concussion of the brain

"Beaten up for union activities." Washington, D.C., March 18. Testifyi...

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

Traffic paint undergoes rigid tests. Washington, D.C., April 16. At the U.S. Bureau of Standards, J.E. Keefauver of the Bureau has been running tests on the paint that is placed on safety zones and streets to determine which has the best wearing activity. The discs [?] are painted with the traffic paint the chain-driven wheel of eraser rubber (to imitate an auto tire) slowly wears the paint away. The brushes are to keep the disc and tire clean. These tests were made at the requests of the traffic bureaus, 4/16/1937

Traffic paint undergoes rigid tests. Washington, D.C., April 16. At th...

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Swing made of an old rubber tire. Gibbs City, Michigan

Swing made of an old rubber tire. Gibbs City, Michigan

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Standing, left to right: Charles v. McLaughlin, Undersecretary of Labor; Eugene Meyer, publisher of the Washington Post; Roger D. Lapham, president of the American Hawaiian Steamship Company; Cyrus Ching, Vice President, U.S. Rubber Corporation; Walter C. Teagle, former President, Standard Oil Company of New Jersey; George M. Harrison, grand president, Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks; George Meany, general secretary of the AFL American Federation of Labor); Philip Murray, CIO President; Thomas Kennedy, secretary treasurer, United Mine Workers (UMW). Seated, left to right: Frank P. Graham, University of North Carolina President; Sidney Hillman, Associate Director General representing the Office of Production Management (OPM); Chairman Clarence Dykstra; Daniel Tracy, second Assistant Secretary of Labor; William H. Davis, Vice-Chairman, new Mediation Board, former Chairman of New York state mediation board

Standing, left to right: Charles v. McLaughlin, Undersecretary of Labo...

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

Mr. Leatherman drives his burro-drawn cart up to the filling station to get air in the rubber tires. Pie Town, New Mexico

Mr. Leatherman drives his burro-drawn cart up to the filling station t...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a cart, carriage, wagon, horse transport, 18th-19th century design, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A.L. Viles, producers' representative on the Rubber Priorities Committee

A.L. Viles, producers' representative on the Rubber Priorities Committ...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to politics, political campaigns, committee, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hamburger? No, this is a straining machine. Rubber to be used for the manufacture of inner tubes is here being forced through a thirty mesh screen to remove dirt, sand, etc. Ford River Rouge plant

Hamburger? No, this is a straining machine. Rubber to be used for the ...

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.

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 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. Guayule seed mixed with sawdust in the planter used in the nursery

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Guayule seed m...

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

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Two-year-old g...

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

Moving a section of the rubber belt conveyor which brings gravel to Shasta Dam. Shasta County, California

Moving a section of the rubber belt conveyor which brings gravel to Sh...

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Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Guayule seedlings in the nursery. Elevated irrigation pipes are installed throughout. There are approximately 70,000 seedlings to the acre in the nursery

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

Picryl description: Public domain image of field, irrigation, agriculture, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Assault boat Production. Building assault boats for U.S. Marine Corps. Closeup photograph shows balloon room worker applying rubber cement to large fabric area which will become the bottom of the boat as assembly progresses. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

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

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.

Another sturdy track for an Army halftrac car will soon be ready for use. On the trimming rack of the Ohio tire plant in which it was made curing plates and overflowing edges of rubber are removed. Goodrich, Akron, Ohio

Another sturdy track for an Army halftrac car will soon be ready for u...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Salinas, California. Putting thermometer into drying guayule seed at the nursery of the Intercontinental Rubber Producers

Salinas, California. Putting thermometer into drying guayule seed at t...

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

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. A sack of seed from selected guayule plants. This selected seed will be used for experimental work in seed propagation to raise shrubs for maximum production

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. A sack of seed...

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Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Harry Baucher, head chemist, runs rubber extraction tests on guayule

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Harry Baucher,...

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Rubber reclamation. Rubber "spaghetti" from old tires. In the xylos process of reclaiming scrap in a Midwest plant, rubber is forced through a screen by a large worn screw, and bits of metal and fiber are removed. Ropy lengths of rubber, ready for the final refining operation, are extruded. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Rubber "spaghetti" from old tires. In the xylos pr...

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

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 vital defense materials (U.S. Route 1, Baltimore-Washington Highway, August 1941)

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

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, excavation or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Salinas, California. Guayule planter in the nursery of the Intercontinental Rubber Producers

Salinas, California. Guayule planter in the nursery of the Intercontin...

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

Bofors forty-millimeter mounts. The machine of bronze rings gears for the production of Bofors forty-millimeter anti-aircraft guns mounts and carriages at a large Midwest rubber factory involves skilled precision operations. Here an expert workman is making the final cut on a vertical turret lathe. When this operation is complete, the bronze ring will be moved to the gear for the concluding operation

Bofors forty-millimeter mounts. The machine of bronze rings gears for ...

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. Four-year-old guayule plants. An acre of mature shrubs will yield from 1800 to 2500 pounds of rubber

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Four-year-old ...

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

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Tire reclaimed from automobiles, scrapped for their iron and steel content. The rubber content of these tires can be reclaimed successfully to replace the use of new rubber in many articles. The U.S. Army is experimenting at the moment with the use of retreaded tires on trucks (U.S. Route 1,

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Tire reclaimed from automobiles, s...

Shaping the sidewall. Moistening the bead area with a special rubber solvent and cement, the tire builder makes ready to force the overhanging edges down and around to the bead where it will first be anchored, then trimmed. The wheel spins and stops by foot control, leaving both hands free for work upon the tire itself. Firestone (General Tires), Akron, Ohio

Shaping the sidewall. Moistening the bead area with a special rubber s...

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Salvage. Scrap tires. On their way to swell America's most important stockpile. Employees of a large Southern junkyard load scrap tires for shipment to a reclaiming plant where the rubber will be removed and processed into essential war materials

Salvage. Scrap tires. On their way to swell America's most important ...

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Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). This worker at the Akron, Ohio, synthetic rubber plant of the B.F. Goodrich Company, is adding a catalyst to a polymerizer tank, to speed up the process of changing various raw materials into latex. Goodrich

Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). This worker at the Akron, Ohio, synthetic...

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Make your scrap tires save lives. Slacker. The approximately ten pounds of rubber in this old tire should be helping the war effort. If the casing is still usable it should be on a car in active service. If it cannot be reconditioned it should be turned in at a local salvage center for forwarding to a rubber reclamation plant. The rubber in this tire is about equal in weight to the rubber used in making a three-men aviation life raft

Make your scrap tires save lives. Slacker. The approximately ten pound...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an automobile, 1940s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). These workers are removing crumbs from the perforated boxes below the coagulating and extractor tanks. The rubber drips into these boxes from the tanks and the water previously added to dissolve the soap in the solution runs off through the perforations in the box. This rubber will now be prepared for the wash mill. Goodrich

Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). These workers are removing crumbs from th...

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Agriculture. Women on farms. There's a feminine hand at the controls of many of America's activities these days. Like many other farm wives whose husbands are engaged in war work, Mrs. William Wood manages a 120 acre farm in Colona, Michigan, with little male assistance. With a crop of corn, tomatoes and rasberries to harvest, she still finds time to care for her own Victory garden and to attend a first-aid class. And for the scrap drive Mrs. Wood salvaged 1,600 pounds of outworn metal and rubber articles from the farm, and contributed them to her local collection agency

Agriculture. Women on farms. There's a feminine hand at the controls o...

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

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Torn rubber raincoat found in attic will be used as rubber scrap

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Torn rubber ...

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Salinas, California. Head chemist at the Intercontinental Rubber Producers experimenting on the deresination of guayule rubber

Salinas, California. Head chemist at the Intercontinental Rubber Produ...

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Rural scrap collection. War Production Board (WPB) sponsors a successful rural scrap collection project at Dexter, Michigan. A collection of scrap metal and rubber from the Wright farm is being unloaded at the collection center at the start of a drive that brought many tons of reclaimable materials from local farmyards

Rural scrap collection. War Production Board (WPB) sponsors a successf...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Wooden wheels are attached to a P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane so it may be moved around the ramp at the Inglewood, California plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated. When it is ready for flight tests, regular landing wheels with rubber tires will be substituted. 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. Wooden wheels are attached ...

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

Citation winners. William G. Marshall, Director of the War Production Drive. Standing, is shown presenting the Honor Group at the luncheon tendered by Donald M. Nelson, Chairman of War Production Board (WPB), following the White House ceremony. Left to right: Mrs. Marshall, Mr. Nelson, Joseph H. Kautsky, Dodge Plant Link-Belt Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, James A. Merrill, research chemist with the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio; Edwin C. Tracy, field engineer for RCA Manufacturing Company, Camden, New Jersey, Clinton R. Hanna, research department manager for the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company of Pittsburgh, and Madison E. Butler, assistant chief inspector for the Stromberg-Carlson Telephone Manufacture Company

Citation winners. William G. Marshall, Director of the War Production ...

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

Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Applying the finishing touches to a completed wagon wheel in the painting room of a Southern wagon wheel company which is swamped with orders because of the rubber shortage

Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Applying the finishi...

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

Salvage. Scrap tires. On their way to swell America's most important stockpile. Employees of a large Southern junkyard load scrap tires for shipment to a reclaiming plant where the rubber will be removed and processed into essential war materials

Salvage. Scrap tires. On their way to swell America's most important ...

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.

Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). This worker at the Akron, Ohio synthetic rubber plant of the B. F. Goodrich Company is placing trimmed sheets of synthetic rubber on the cooling racks

Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). This worker at the Akron, Ohio synthetic ...

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). This sheet of synthetic rubber coming off the rolling mill at the Akron, Ohio plant of the B.F. Goodrich Company is now ready for drying

Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). This sheet of synthetic rubber coming off...

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.

Negroes speed war work for Tennessee Valley Authority. Alonzo Bankston is a furnace operator in the TVA plant producing carbide for use of plants manufacturing synthetic rubber

Negroes speed war work for Tennessee Valley Authority. Alonzo Bankston...

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

Transportation. Car pooling at Glenn Martin. Car pooling at the Glenn Martin aircraft plant. The personnel manager, who arranges rides for others, has also joined a "car pool" to save gas and rubber. He is shown entering a worker's car

Transportation. Car pooling at Glenn Martin. Car pooling at the Glenn ...

Public domain photograph of an automobile, car, the 1920s or 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

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.

Tire recapping. Preparing a worn automobile tire for recapping. The operator applied a coating of rubber adhesive after the tread surface of the tire has 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. Preparing a worn automobile tire for recapping. The op...

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Liberian president holds Blair House press conference. His Excellency, Edwin Barclay, President of the Republic of Liberia, talked readily and easily about the strategic positions of his country and the potentialities of its rubber industry in a press conference at the historic Blair House on Thursday, 27, 1943

Liberian president holds Blair House press conference. His Excellency,...

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

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. Flyer in a rubber crash suit loading a Very pistol before taking off

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

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, 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...

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

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 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 worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

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

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

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

Frank Noboo Horosawa [i.e., Hirosawa], rubber chemist, Manzanar Relocation Center, California / photograph by Ansel Adams.

Frank Noboo Horosawa [i.e., Hirosawa], rubber chemist, Manzanar Reloca...

Frank Hirosawa, bust portrait, facing front. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Original neg. no.: LC-A35-4-M-53. Gift; Ansel Adams; 1965-1968. Forms part of: Manzanar War Relocation... More

Amazon rubber boat, Brazil - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Amazon rubber boat, Brazil - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. LOT subdivision subject: Brazil. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Boats.

Detroit Rubber Works, Detroit, Mich.

Detroit Rubber Works, Detroit, Mich.

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Bureau of Standards testing [...] of rubber

Bureau of Standards testing [...] of rubber

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[Rubber plantations, Java?, 1914]: collecting latex & cupwashing, Sikassim Estate

[Rubber plantations, Java?, 1914]: collecting latex & cupwashing, Sika...

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

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

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

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

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

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Hoover with Genl. Tire & Rubber Co. pilots, 8/20/29

Hoover with Genl. Tire & Rubber Co. pilots, 8/20/29

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Declares at Civil Liberties Committee. Washington, D.C., March 17. Paul S. Litchfield, President of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, told the Lafollette Civil Liberties Committee today that while his firm recognized "outside unions" it kept an elaborate "company union" which is known as the "the industrial assembly", and it comprises an assembly and Senate, much as the state legislature. Acting in a capacity similar to a state Governor, the manager has power to disapprove assembly actions, he added

Declares at Civil Liberties Committee. Washington, D.C., March 17. Pau...

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[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 tol...

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Chrysler tank arsenal. The M-3 tank has an overall length of 18 feet, which means the track for one-side of this 28- ton monster is about 40 feet long. Each individual tread is made of solid rubber

Chrysler tank arsenal. The M-3 tank has an overall length of 18 feet, ...

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Standing, left to right: Charles v. McLaughlin, Undersecretary of Labor; Eugene Meyer, publisher of the Washington Post; Roger D. Lapham, president of the American Hawaiian Steamship Company; Cyrus Ching, Vice President, U.S. Rubber Corporation; Walter C. Teagle, former President, Standard Oil Company of New Jersey; George M. Harrison, grand president, Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks; George Meany, general secretary of the AFL (American Federation of Labor); Philip Murray, CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) President; Thomas Kennedy, secretary treasurer, United Mine Workers (UMW). Seated, left to right: Frank P. Graham, University of North Carolina President; Sidney Hillman, Associate Director General representing the Office of Production Management (OPM); Chairman Clarence Dykstra; Daniel Tracy,

Standing, left to right: Charles v. McLaughlin, Undersecretary of Labo...

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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...

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This is the beginning of the many operations which finally result in rubber tires for the tanks and planes of the armies of the world democracy. This native is tapping a rubber tree and drawing off latex on a rubber plantation in the Netherlands East Indies, which, with British Malaya, supplies more than 90 percent of our raw rubber imports

This is the beginning of the many operations which finally result in r...

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Giant tire manufacturing. Construction of modern airports and other military facilities which requires moving large quantities of earth necessitates equipment identified as earth movers. Earth movers use huge rubber tires like these, some of which cost as much as $2,500 each. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Giant tire manufacturing. Construction of modern airports and other mi...

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Aircraft tire manufacture. This shot taken through a huge bomber tire shows an attractive rubber company employee with small airplane tire used on some military aircraft. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Aircraft tire manufacture. This shot taken through a huge bomber tire ...

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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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Barrage balloon manufacture. Reinforcing tail rigging of a new ballonet type barrage balloon, these workers at the barrage plant are cementing, seaming and rolling reinforcing tape across points in the tail and fins where strain is greatest. General Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio

Barrage balloon manufacture. Reinforcing tail rigging of a new ballone...

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

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

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Last grain of powder is dumped into the mill hopper as another hatch is completely filled. Next batch is in the foreground but will not be started until the present one is completely mixed. Mixing time varies with the characteristic of the batch, both as to the number of ingredients and the speed with which they mix thoroughly into the rubber. General Tires, Akron, Ohio

Last grain of powder is dumped into the mill hopper as another hatch i...

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Barrage balloon manufacture. Final patching and tying. Men in the foreground are rolling cemented patches into correct position on the outside walls of a barrage balloon, while their co-worker in the background is checking the wrapping of ropes in cloth to prevent any stray bristles from puncturing the rubberized fabric. General Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio

Barrage balloon manufacture. Final patching and tying. Men in the fore...

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