Rubber industry activities, Changi

Place Asia: Singapore, Changi
Accession Number ART26520
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 50 x 36.8 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description pen and blue ink and wash over pencil on paper
Maker Griffin, Murray
Place made Singapore: Changi
Date made 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

A. Patching clothes with latex.
B. Press to stick rubber soles on boots
C. Cutting and trimming rubber soles.
Latex is the pure rubber as tapped from the rubber tree. For the purposes shown here, it was mixed with an anti-coagulant.