Conversations

Here are conversations that have happened in the last week on Flickr Commons:

English actress Ada Reeve, 1910-1913 by May & Mina Moore

from State Library of New South Wales

Gas Guy statue, Clarksville, Arkansas (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • 2 older comments, and then…
  • The Library of Congress said:
    The image has been updated and is now appearing correctly here in Flickr.

Rubber glove manufacture, Sydney, 1939

from State Library of New South Wales

  • clive422 said:
    What a . interesting picture!
  • Francesco Dini said:
    Absolutely stunning! 🌟
  • Lamoreaux said:
    Worked in a plant near Spartanburg, South Carolina, back in 1972, making surgical gloves pretty much the same way as this. We used larger racks of the ceramic hands, though, which were dipped first in latex, then run through an oven and baked on. After the oven, they were dipped in water containing talc. The racks were set on carts that ran along diminutive tracks resembling railroad tracks. You’d lift the rack off the cart with a hoist that would swing it over and dip it into the respective vats. Hot work with few breaks. And mindless, I guess, apart from safety awareness. I think latex surgical gloves are still in use today, so I wonder if the production has changed.
  • State Library of New South Wales said:
    Lamoreaux 👍