Item 8: Cotton drawing frames

Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image shows two female workers handling cotton slivers as the slivers are fed into a drawing frame ("machine used . to improve the uniformity of the sliver and to arrange the fibers more nearly in parallel order"). The slivers held by the workers, along with other unattended slivers, enter the drawing frame in groups of six, where they are combined into one bigger sliver and then coiled into cans on the opposite side of the drawing frame. The worker in the foreground can be seen more clearly in Item 6, in this folder,. This image is virtually identical to Item 8, in this folder,. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.