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We have included a gallery of historical artifacts to demonstare how asbestos was marketed from 1899 to the mid 1960's and will add new images as we acquire them. If you have histrorical asbestos industry images that we could include here, please email them to "info AT hollywood-internet.com".

An original share certificate of the San Benito Asbestos Company from 1918

Poscard depicting the Neely Asbestos Shingle Cutter - a tool used by roofers in the USA and Canada apparently!

Johns-Manville Asbestos curtain advertisement

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A Harper's magazine advertisement promoting the use of asbestos fire curtains in cinemas and theatres in the USA.

Describing the curtain asa moving fire wall, the advertisement also demonstrates the many other uses of asbestos.

Another Johns Manville magazine advertisement showing how asbestos was used in felt roofing products.

Today, we still find examples of felt roofing that contains asbestos on many buildings.

Similartly, what the Americans call "shingles", we call tiles and again, we find many examples of asbestos derived rof tiles on UK commercial buildings. They were also widely used in domestic properties in the 1960's to the 1980's.

Johns Manville asbestos roofing advertisement

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A postcard advertising rubberised asbestos packaging materials called Russo and Vaporite from the A.W. Chesterton Company in Boston, USA.

A 1910 advertisement promoting "Gladiator" naval products, including steam gaskets.

A 1910 advertisement promoting "Gladiator" naval products, including steam gaskets.

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This ad appeared in a USA magazine in october 1957.

We have discovered a number of asbestos cement pipes during our surveys at sewage treatment plants in the UK.