Item 1: Feeding wool into carding machine in a great woolen mill, Massachusetts

Feeding wool into carding machine in a great woolen mill, Massachusetts. Black-and-white image shows male worker feeding raw wool into a hopper where it falls on an endless belt or apron where it must pass between the surface of a large horizontal cylinder (a few feet ahead of the workman) and smaller cylindrical rollers that surround the larger one. The carding machine is the first in the process to make the wool fibers lie parallel before spinning. Specific location of the mill is unknown. Additional information is printed on the reverse side. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company, ca. 1900-1920. 18 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.