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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 👍

First Nations Australians, Clarence River District, New South Wales, 1875

from State Library of New South Wales

  • Peter Hill said:
    This is an excellent example of the photographs Lindt took to make up the album, which is of great social and historical significance, but that's not the title of the album.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Interesting. Mr Lindt's Wikipedia has this (originally from the Grafton Argus of 16/11/1974) ...

    " ... "No. 6 is a group of natives comprising "King Charley", of Ulmarra, with his mother and gin; "King Charley" has the brass crescent plate round his neck which is used to denote his rank, and the war implements consisting of "boomerang," "nulla-nulla," "heliman," and "spear" are introduced together with a collection of "dilly-bags" and other appliances of domestic use." "

    See - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_William_Lindt#Indigenous_subjects

    Trove - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/235019472?searchTerm=%...
  • Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies said:
    beachcomber australia 👍

Don Athaldo 1938 SLNSW_FL9703421

from State Library of New South Wales

  • clive422 said:
    What people did for a laugh before the Internet came along.
    Great picture!