Product Collection (page 45)

A stands for Arrow Candles
Advertising for Arrow Candles. Alphabet series of 26 postcards featuring children using or holding the product. Date: c.1912

N is for Naptholite
Advertising for Naptholite soap. Alphabet series of 26 postcards featuring children using or holding the product. Date: c.1912

Crinisma hair preparation
Bottle containing Crinisma hair preparation, a substitute for oil, pomade and brilliantine. This preparation combines in itself the double properties of both a hair grease and stimulating wash

Ws the Welcome Soako gets
Advertising for Soako Soap Powder. Alphabet series of 26 postcards featuring children using or holding the product. Date: c.1912

Product packaging, from thes Maw & Sons catalogue Date: 1903

D stands for Disinfectant Soap
Advertising for First Aid disinfectant soap. Alphabet series of 26 postcards featuring children using or holding the product. Date: c.1912

Eau de Quinine Tonique
Bottle containing Eau de Quinine Tonique, for care and preservation of the hair. Made by Lewis and Burrows, London. Date: C.1900

Advertisement for Solit䲠Fine Shoe Care
Part of a German advertising campaign promoting a shoe care product using silhouette images Date: 1941

Veet advertisement, depilatory cream, 1927
A cream that removes hair like magic! Date: 1927

Smoking Coke Ovens
Coke Ovens and By-Product plant at Derwenthaugh, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. Date: 1960s

Coronation Medals of the Kings and Queens of England, from William and Mary to George VI

Advert for Gossard underwear 1948

Animal products, European Wolf (Canis lupus) skins, Poland

Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) label on wooden product

Leopard, wolf, porcupine and snake skins for sale in market, Marrakesh, Morocco, january

Dairy farming, worker filtering milk in parlour, Prosperous Home Farm, Hungerford, Berkshire, England

Grey Wolf (Canis lupus) skins, hanging on door, Ulan Bator, Mongolia, september

Dairy farming, worker using machine for cream production, Prosperous Home Farm, Hungerford, Berkshire, England

Destruction-Animal Products. Pile of Ivory and Rhino horn Nairobi National Park / Kenya

Animal By-Products Sea shell products for sale in a street market, Victoria, Mahe

Leopard and snake skins for sale in market beside spices, Marrakesh, Morocco, january

Jungle Starfish, dried starfish sold as marine curios, in basket outside seaside shop, Cornwall, England, october

Cheddar cheese production. Vat of curdled milk. The milk has separated in curds (solid) and whey (liquid). A worker (at right) is cutting the curds before draining of the whey

Smallest book, SEM
Smallest book in the world. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of the smallest published book in the world. This tiny leather- bound volume measures just 2.4 by 2.9 millimetres in page area

Biodiesel, conceptual artwork. Fuel containers with plant leaves on their surfaces, representing a fuel made from plant sources

Bitumen being poured onto a surface. Bitumen is a product of the refining of crude oil. Crude oil is a mixture of hydrocarbons that is heated to separate it into parts called fractions

Vacuum pipestill at an oil refinery
Oil refinery. This is a vacuum pipestill, a distillation tower (still) where the high-boiling point part of crude oil is refined into parts (fractions) such as fuel oil and bitumen

Catalytic cracker at an oil refinery
Oil refinery. This is the catalytic cracking area. Catalytic cracking uses high temperature and a catalyst to break down (crack) heavy oil fractions into lighter, more useful oils

Hydrofiner at an oil refinery
Oil refinery. This is the hydrofining area, where crude oil products are processed to remove any impurities, such as sulphur

Lubricating oil
Heavy lubricating oil being poured onto a watch glass. Lubricating oil is a product of the refining of crude oil. Crude oil is a mixture of hydrocarbons that is heated to separate it into parts

Furnace at an oil refinery
Oil refinery. This is the furnace where crude oil is heated to 470 degrees Celsius before it enters a distillation tower (still)

Oil refinery storage tank. This spherical tank is pressurized and contains liquified petroleum gas (LPG), one of the products from the refining of crude oil

Atmospheric pipestill at an oil refinery
Oil refinery. This is an atmospheric pipestill, a distillation tower (still) where hot crude oil is separated into parts called fractions

Woman and bar code. Conceptual image of a woman with a bar code. This may represent the use of bar codes for identification and security purposes

Reusable shopping bag
MODEL RELEASED. Reusable shopping bag. Shopper carrying her food shopping in a jute bag

Modbury resusable shopping bag
Modbury reusable shopping bag. Shopper carrying her shopping in a cotton bag. This design is the official Modbury reusable bag and is made from ethically sourced organic cotton

Compact flash memory card. Flash memory is a form of non-volatile computer data storage. Flash memory cards may be used with digital cameras, handheld and mobile computers, telephones, music players

Butchers shop. Butcher preparing meat to be sold

Cotton wool balls

Cotton wool pads in a pile

Matchstick production line. Matchsticks falling off a conveyor belt on a production line for machining matchsticks from blocks of wood

Madam C. J. Walker, US businesswoman
Madam C. J. Walker (1867-1919), US businesswoman, driving a car. Walker was one of the first African-American millionairesses

Walnuts in a basket
Walnuts (Juglans sp.) in a basket at a food market. Photographed in Yunnan province, China

Parmesan cheese and grater

Brie cheese

Yunnan green tea. Sacks of green tea on sale at a market. Photographed in Yunnan province, China

Raw meat in a butchers shop

Goats cheese sliced into 150 gramm chunks in a tray

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