Item 15: Cotton card, delivery end

Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image shows the back view (or delivery end) of a row of cotton carding machines (machines that separate fibers into "individual relationship[s]") in operation. On the right side of each machine, a sliver ("rope of fibers") can be seen entering a sliver can. The cotton as it is carded comes off the machine in a sliver. Very similar to Item 14, in this folder, except that image has a male worker visible in the background. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.