Protective Equipment Collection

Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, Florida, 1943. Creator: Gordon Parks
Daytona Beach, Florida. Bethune-Cookman College. Girl welder in the NYA (National Youth Administration) school

Apollo 11 Recovery Area, 1969. Creator: NASA
Apollo 11 Recovery Area, 1969. Pararescueman Lt. Clancy Hatleberg closes the Apollo 11 spacecraft hatch as astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin, Jr

Interior Sand Blasting Chamber, 1935, c. 1947. Creator: Perkins Harnly
Interior Sand Blasting Chamber, 1935, c. 1947

Aviator helmet belonging to Sally K. Ride, ca. 1983. Creator: Sierra Engineering Co
Aviator helmet belonging to Sally K. Ride, ca. 1983. Dr. Sally K. Ride became the first American woman in space when she flew on the STS-7 shuttle mission in 1983

Gas mask with filter canister worn at demonstrations in Ferguson, Missouri, 2014
Gas mask worn by African-American writer and journalist Dr. Jelani Cobb at a protest held after a young black man, Michael Brown, was shot dead by white police officer Darren Wilson

British Machine-gun Section wearing anti-gas masks, First World War, 1914-1918, (c1920)
Modern Warfare on the Western Front: British Machine-gun Section wearing anti-gas masks, First World War, 1914-1918, (c1920)

French soldiers wearing gas masks, First World War, c1915, (c1920). Creator: Unknown
French soldiers wearing gas masks, First World War, c1915, (c1920). Modern Warfare on the Western Front: French soldiers with their gas masks ready for an asphyxiating attack

Grinding the flashing from a casting, AT Green & Sons Ltd, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, 1963. The flashing is the excess steel which is left on the casting when the steel sets

Enamelling a steel bath at Ideal Standard, Hull, Humberside, 1967. Established in 1954, Ideal Standard has been producing bathroom products in Hull for over 50 years

Infantry fitted with the latest gas marks and steel helmets, World War I, 1915-1918. The Germans were the first to make use of poison gas on the Western Front, at Ypres in April 1915

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