Box 8

Scope and Contents Black-and-white image shows workman moving a roll of partially processed cotton (known as a lap) to a scale for checking weight before going on to the next process. Other rolls are lined up to be weighed. Nearby wall calendar is dated April 1947. Printed on reverse: "North Carolina's textile industry. North Carolina is the country's leading textile producing state with over 400 modern mills employing 220,000 people--about 60 per cent of all the industrial workers in the state. Textile...

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Color image shows a wool picker, constructed of wood with rubber belts. Wool is being pulled through a series of metal teeth attached to wooden bars. Photo from Merrimack Valley Textile Museum, North Andover, Mass. Published by H. K. Barnett, Allison Park, Pa. ca. 1980-1984. 15 x 10.5 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Black-and-white image shows rows of cotton pickers, each with a series of rollers for the cotton to be fed through. Possibly the Granite Mills in Fall River, Mass. Stereoscopic Views by Joseph W. Warren, Fall River, Mass. ca. 1870s. 17.5 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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#48 of Manchester views, published by C. K. Burns, 1018 Elm Street, Manchester, New Hampshire [1880s?] Black and white image depicts the No. 5 picker room of Amoskeag Mills. A picker more thoroughly cleans the raw cotton and winds it into a continus lap for carding. A hopper that feed the cotton into the picker is in the foreground. 17.75 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black-and-white image shows rows of lappers in which the cotton from the feeders is cleaned and rolled into rolls of cotton batting known as laps. Several of these are doubled and drawn into one so as to get the weight of each yard as uniform as possible. Male workers stand by the lappers. North Bennington, Vt.: H.C. White Co. 18 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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.