Item 11: Pentagraph [Pantograph] Room, American Print Works, Fall River, Mass.

Littleton, New Hampshire: Photographed and published by Kilburn Brothers, ca. 1880-1888. Gelatin silver print. Black and white image shows a female worker seated at an open table on which is a pantograph. A pantograph [from Wikipedia] "is a mechanical linkage connected in a manner based on parallelograms so that the movement of one pen, in tracing an image, produces identical movements in a second pen." This is most likely being used to design prints for fabrics. Another woman stands behind the pantograph machine. 17 x 8.25 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.