Scope and Contents Feeding wool into carding machine in a great woolen mill, Massachusetts. Black-and-white image shows male worker feeding raw wool into a hopper where it falls on an endless belt or apron where it must pass between the surface of a large horizontal cylinder (a few feet ahead of the workman) and smaller cylindrical rollers that surround the larger one. The carding machine is the first in the process to make the wool fibers lie parallel before spinning. Specific location of the mill is unknown....

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Black-and-white image shows row of power-driven carding machines. A male worker looks on in the left background. The purpose of carding is to make the fibers lie parallel. Location of mill is unknown. New York: Underwood & Underwood, ca. 1900-1920. 18 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Scope and Contents Black-and-white image shows a carding machine on display with a man standing next to it. The machine is a woolen card for tape condenser, 8 spool on the left, 4 spool on the right. Printed on the card: "Paris 1889, Paris 1900 - Liege 1905 Grand prix d'Honneur [grand prize of honor]. Exposition de Liege 1905. -- Grandes Usines de Belgique. Vue du stand de la Societe Anonyme Vervietoise pour la construction de machines - Verviers. Specialite de machines pour l'industrie textile - lavage -...

Scope and Contents Black-and-white image of a wool carding machine in a mill in the city of Tourcoing, France. A workman is removing the spool in the center; jack spools (to right) are ready for spinning. A jack spool is a large wooden spool upon which the woolen roping is wound after it leaves the tape condenser section of a card. A tape condenser is the delivery section on a card in the woolen system. Its function is to split the doffer web into numerous narrow stripps, condense these into ropings and wind...

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Black-and-white image shows a row of carding machines that are carding jute. The jute is coming off in slivers into the cans in front of each carder. Carter's Series, No. 52. [Printed in Great Britain] [no earlier than 1902] 13.75 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Black-and-white image shows female workers at a row of carding machines carding tow, which is the broken, matted fiber removed from flax, hemp, jute and the like. Carter's Series, No. 11. [Printed in Great Britain] [no earlier than 1902] 13.75 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Black-and-white image shows two machines with female workers guiding material, probably tow, into the carding machines. All the women wear long dusters over their clothes. Tow is the broken, matted fiber removed from flax, hemp, jute and the like. Carter's Series, No. 35. Printed in Great Britain. [no earlier than 1902] 13.75 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Color image of rows of carding machines. Published by International Post Card Co., New York. Made in Germany. Postmarked September 18, 1908 in Winchester, Tenn. 13.75 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black-and-white image shows row of carding machines. Bobbins hang in racks in background. Used in Arkwright's mills at Cromford for producing cotton yarn. On permanent loan from Platt Saco Lowell Ltd. [England]: (c) Lancashire Museum & Lancashire Library. ca. 1975-1979. 15 x 10.5 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Black and white image shows Samuel Slater's carding machine in place at the Old Slater Mill in Pawtucket, R.I. The Slater Mill was the first successful cotton spinning factory in the U.S. The Old Slater Mill has been open to the public as a historic site since 1925. Published by Artvue Post Card Co. 225 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. ca. 1950. 14 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Postcard.