Scope and Contents Sorting Wool after Cleaning and Washing, Lawrence, Mass. Black-and-white image of men working at tables hand-pulling wool as part of sorting process. In the foreground, a man is surrounded by piles of wool and baskets into which the wool is separated. He is grading the wool: the wool from the back and sides of the fleece is put in the Grade A basket; Grade B is from the lower parts of the fleece; and Grade C is the "rag tag" from the legs. Location unidentified here, but background dividers...

Scope and Contents Black-and-white image shows a male worker standing at a table piled with wool. The area is filled with baskets and bales of wool. Printed on reverse: "On arrival from Australia the raw wool was taken to the company's Cliffe Mills, Pudsey, for 'Sorting and Grading.'" Number one in a series of eight by Armley Mills, Leeds Museum of Science and Industry. Printed by E.T.W. Dennis & Sons, Ltd., Scarborough. This postcard was likely printed in 1982 as the Leeds Museum of Science and Industry...

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Black-and-white image shows rows of machines through which the jute is pulled and dropped into roving cans on the floor next to the machines. Carter's Series, No. 53. [Printed in Great Britain] [no earlier than 1902] 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Black-and-white image shows bins of raw jute material. Two workmen are in the foreground, one weighing the material on a scale. Carter's Series, No. 51. [Printed in Great Britain] [no earlier than 1902] 14 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Tolson Memorial Museum, Huddersfield, England. [no later than 1962] Black and white image shows large scale used to weigh wool. 9 x 14 cm.

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Stockton, Calif. Black-and-white image shows male workers sorting wool; large bags of wool and piles of wool visible on floor. Dated and postmarked Mar. 11, 1910 in Stockton, Calif. Addressed to Mr. E.H. Tryon in San Francisco with a note including "This is a picture of some of Cornings choice Fall wools." 14 x 8.5 cm.

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Scope and Contents Black-and-white image shows workmen adding batches of cotton into automatic feeders made by the Kitson Machine Co., Lowell, Mass. An automatic feeder is a kind of opening machine for processing cotton that ordinarily has already been through a bale breaker, or which has not been highly compressed. Its main objects are to further open and clean the cotton and maintain a uniform flow to the succeeding machine. The worker in the foreground appears to be African American. From the "Perfec"...

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Black-and-white image shows row of five automatic feeders, manufactured by the Kitson Machine Company, Lowell, Mass. Each machine is filled with cotton; the purpose of automatic feeders is to further open and clean the cotton. No location given. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company, ca. 1900-1920. 17.75 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black-and-white image shows a row of cotton openers. The cleaned cotton is displayed at the edge of machine in the foreground. The opener loosens the lumps of cotton and removes impurities that remain after the ginning. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company. 18 x 8.75 cm.

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Promotional postcard advertised the Steel Feeder Apron as "Standard Equipment in almost 400 Textile Plants." The Sjostrom Machine Co. was located in the Everett Mills in Lawrence, Mass. Postmarked July 13, 1945 in Lawrence; addressed to the Universal Shoddy Co. in Worcester, Mass.; however the Sjostrom Machine Co. first appears in the Lawrence directories in 1940. 9 x 13.75 cm.

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