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Rubber plantations

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = TD

Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:

Para Rubber. Foreground 2 Years Old, Background 1 Year Old, North Hummock, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2593
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a group of men standing in a road at a rubber plantation with para rubber trees on either side - in the foreground its 2 years old and in the background its 1 year old in North Hummock [Estate in Malaysia] in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Para Rubber Tree No. 2, One of the Oldest in the Malay Peninsula, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3236
Scope and Contents

Photograph of two men standing next to the Para rubber tree no. 2 that is one of the oldest in the Malay Peninsula in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Pararubber Nurseries, 9 Months Old, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2597
Scope and Contents

Photograph of two men standing in front of 9 month old Para rubber trees in a nursery in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Plantation Tree, 55 Feet High, About 15 Years-Old, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3017
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Plantation tree that is 55 feet high and about 15 years old growing in front of a house and paddock in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Rubber [Tree], 5 Years Old, Batu Caves Estate, [Malaysia], 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3276
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a 5 year old rubber trees with herring-bone tapping patterns on the Batu Caves Estate in [Malaysia].

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Sketch Map of the Valley of the Amazon Where Original Stock of Hevea Came from, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3285
Scope and Contents

Sketch of a map of the Amazon valley indicating the locality on the Tapajos plateaux where the original stock of the plantation Hevea came from in 1876.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Tapping Twelve Year Old Trees, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3279
Scope and Contents

Photograph of men tapping twelve year old rubber trees on a plantation in [Malaysia?] in the early 20th century. In the image, the men are cutting a spiral pattern into the trees and a water buffalo is harnessed to a large cannister.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Tapping Young Tree, Rantau Panjang Estate, [Malaysia], 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3281
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a man tapping a young rubber tree using a herring-bone pattern on the Rantau Panjang Estate in [Malaysia] in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s