Item 1: Filling Winding, 1952

Gelatin silver print. Image depicts a room of winding machines. Note the row of bins placed beneath the machines to receive the filled bobbins. Text: "Filling Winding. In order to prepare filling yarn for weaving, it has to be wound on quills or filling bobbins. The yarn is wound from large packages onto wooden quills in such a manner that all of them are of the same diameter so that they will fit into the shuttle. This winder performs the operation automatically, that is, as a bobbin is filled it drops into a container placed under the machine. An empty bobbin is then automatically placed onto the winding mechanism, and the winder again starts operating." 25 x 20.5 cm. (w/out mount); 27 x 20.5 cm. (w/mount).