Item 124: Ring Spinners in a Fall River Cotton Mill [Fall River, Mass.], 1910

Ring Spinners in a Fall River Cotton Mill [Fall River, Mass.]. Color image of employees posing next to (and sitting on) ring spinning frames in an unidentified mill in Fall River, Mass. Employees are primarily female, but two men are in the foreground. Ring spinning is a system of spinning on a ring frame in which the drafting of the roving, twisting of the yarn and winding it on the bobbin take place simultaneously and continuously. Published by F.P. Charlton Co., Fall River, Mass. Made in Germany. Postmarked June 2, 1910 in Somerset, Mass., but other cards from same series postmarked 1909, so probably produced no later than 1909. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.