Item 1000: Temple Shop men, Draper Company

Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.A1000. 1891-1895. Image depicts the male employees of the Temple Shop at the Draper Company in Hopedale, Massachusetts A dozen men, some in work clothes, and two in suits, stand in the Temple Shop, among equipment including lathes. A temple is a device on a loom located near the fell of the cloth, one on each side; temples hold the cloth out as wide as possible during the process of weaving and prevent it from being drawn in too much by the filling. See Item 994, in this folder, for a view of the Temple Shop without employees and taken from the opposite angle as this one. The Temple Shop was built in 1868 for W. W. Dutcher, a three-story brick factory on Social Street. The Draper Company manufactured textile machinery, primarily looms. 25 x 20.25 cm.