Item 988: Train load of Draper Company looms, 1911

Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.B988. Train load of Draper Company looms, Hopedale, Massachusetts Gelatin silver print, [1974], from a glass plate negative, September 30, 1911. Image depicts a railroad train at a depot, presumably in Hopedale, Massachusetts The train engine pulls a coal car, and a long series of closed boxcars that carried Draper Company looms. Three men in work clothes pose on top of the first boxcar; two more men are barely visible in the background, posing on the last boxcar. The Draper Company manufactured textile machinery, primarily looms. See also Item 987, in this folder. 25.25 x 20.25 cm.