Richards: Photocopy of thesis 'The History of Broadfords/Richards Ltd' by Abigail Humphries
A second year graphics student.
The paper includes a range of images including:
- Photograph of the new Broadford Works, 1911;
- News cutting with an image of Broadford workers at the turn of the century;
- An aerial view of the Broadford Works;
- Sketch plan of the entrance foyer to the Broadford Works;
- Two photographs of Richards Duradon products in use on the Cambridge University Desert Research Project in the Sahara and the British Nepalese Expedition, both 1974;
- Captioned photograph of the hose department at Richards with worker Helen Robertson;
- Aerial view of the Garthdee Works;
- Photograph of samples of Richards' synethetic fibre and two squares knitted using Richards' knitting yarns;
- Three photographs of Richards' displays at exhibitions;
- Map of Aberdeen marked with Richards' sites;
- Three images of Broadford Works, one dated 1866;
- Images of flax seeds and fibres demonstrating the stages in production of canvas tarpaulin; and
- Photograph of the Broadford Works from the Warehouse Tower.
These photocopied images are not of a very high quality.
1980s