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Item 2: A tour through Messrs Lupton and Co's Woollen Mills, Leeds. 1773-1958: folding

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 13

Scope and Contents

Black-and-white image shows a horse attached to a cloth-carrying cart, as a man stands by the horse's head. Behind the horse and man is a brick mill building. Printed on reverse: "Having been fulled and if necessary piece dyed, at the company's Cliffe Mills, Pudsey, the cloth was loaded onto horse-drawn wagons to be transported to their Whitehall Mills, Leeds, for finishing." Number eight in a series of eight by Armley Mills, Leeds Museum of Science and Industry. Printed by E.T.W. Dennis & Sons, Ltd., Scarborough. This postcard was printed in 1982, as that is when the Leeds Museum of Science and Industry was created, but the image dates from an earlier period. ca. 1982. 15 x 10.5 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Dates

  • 1842-2003

Language of Materials

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

Conditions Governing Access

From the Collection:

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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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