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Item 1: Cotton Industry: First Process, Breaking Up, 1909

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 9

Scope and Contents

Black-and-white image depicts young man working with Hopper Feed Equipment manufactured by Howard and Bullough, sole makers. Raw cotton surrounds the equipment; it is unclear if they are in bales. A hopper feeder (also called an automatic feeder) further opens and cleans cotton that has already been through a bale breaker. See Folder 7, Item 1, in this box, for the beginning of the message that is continued on the reverse of this card. [England] Date, August 22, 1909, written in pencil. 14 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Dates

  • 1909

Language of Materials

Collection material in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian

Conditions Governing Access

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Extent

6.33 cubic feet

Repository Details

Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository

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