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Box 8

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Contains 245 Results:

Item 26: Card Room, Langdon Mills, Manchester, New Hampshire

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents Black-and-white image shows carding machines in background. In foreground on left, slivers are being delivered into cans. One male and two women workers are visible, the women behind the machinery in the left foreground. Published by C. K. Burns, 1018 Elm Street, Manchester, New Hampshire #45 of Manchester Views. ca. 1890s. Although by a different publisher, this appears to be the same image published by A. B. Hamor between 1872 and 1880. From foreground to background: drawing, slubber...
Dates: 1842-2003

Item 27: A tour through Messrs Lupton and Co's Woolen Mills, Leeds, 1773-1958: carding

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents Black-and-white image depicts two rows of carding machines with a worker standing in front of one in the background. Each machine consists of a number of rollers covered in millions of wire spikes designed to draw out the wool fibre in preparation for spinning. Postcard by Armley Mills, Leeds Museum of Science and Industry. Printed by E. T. W. Dennis & Sons Ltd., Scarborough, England. This postcard was likely printed in 1982 as the Leeds Museum of Science and Industry was created in...
Dates: 1842-2003

Item 1: Cotton Industry: First Process, Breaking Up, 1909

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents Black-and-white image depicts young man working with Hopper Feed Equipment manufactured by Howard and Bullough, sole makers. Raw cotton surrounds the equipment; it is unclear if they are in bales. A hopper feeder (also called an automatic feeder) further opens and cleans cotton that has already been through a bale breaker. See Folder 7, Item 1, in this box, for the beginning of the message that is continued on the reverse of this card. [England] Date, August 22, 1909, written in pencil. 14 x...
Dates: 1909

Item 2: The Holden Comb, 1974

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents Color image depicts the Holden Comb, combing machinery manufactured by Prince Smith & Sons, Keighley, [Yorkshire, U.K.], 1914. A comb (or comber) is a machine for combing the fibers of cotton, wool, etc., intended for the production of combed yarns and is one of the most complicated and intricate machines used in the processes of yarn manufacturing. Published by the Bradford Art Galleries and Museums [Bradford, England], Bradford Industrial Museum, Textile machinery Collections. Printed...
Dates: 1974

Item 3: The Lister Comb, 1974

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents Color image depicts the Lister Comb, manufactured by John Perry, Shipley, [England], 1888. A comb (or comber) is a machine for combing the fibers of cotton, wool, etc., intended for the production of combed yarns and is one of the most complicated and intricate machines used in the processes of yarn manufacturing. Published by the Bradford Art Galleries and Museums [Bradford, England], Bradford Industrial Museum, Textile machinery Collections. Printed by Colin Richardson Printers Limited,...
Dates: 1974

Item 4: Close-up view of the Lister Comb, 1974

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents Color image depicts a close-up view of the Lister Comb, manufactured by John Perry, Shipley, [England], 1888. A comb (or comber) is a machine for combing the fibers of cotton, wool, etc., intended for the production of combed yarns and is one of the most complicated and intricate machines used in the processes of yarn manufacturing. This image shows the Lister Comb conveying the fibres by the Carrier Comb from the Nip Jaw to the Comb Circle. Published by the Bradford Art Galleries and...
Dates: 1974

Item 5: Noble Comb

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

Image depicts two rows of combing equipment in operation. Noble is the principal comb used in the Bradford [Yorkshire, England] system of making worsted yarns from medium to long crossbred wools. ca. 1910. 13.75 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Dates: 1842-2003

Item 6: Hand wood combing, late 18th Century

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

Black-and-white image depicts a demonstration of how a workman would comb wool by hand in preparation for spinning in the late 18th century. [Published by] Textile Department, Bankfield Museum, Halifax [Yorkshire, England]. Formerly a private residence, Bankfield was sold in 1887 and was transformed into a museum. ca. 1930-1960. 8.75 x 14 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Dates: 1842-2003

Item 8: Operating Combers in a Fall River Cotton Mill, Fall River, Massacusetts

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

Color image of male employees operating combing equipment. Combing removes fibers below a desired length, combs the fibers that are retained and arranges them in parallel order, taking out dirt, etc. not previously removed. Specific mill is not identified. Published by F.P. Charlton Co., Fall River, Mass. Made in Germany. ca. 1907-1909. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Dates: 1842-2003

Item 9: No. 1 Mill Carding Room showing drawing frames, Cocheco Manufacturing Co., Dover, New Hampshire

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

ca. 1880s. Black and white image actually shows row of drawing frames. Drawing is a process that further refines the card slivers (subsequent to carding). 17.75 x 10 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Dates: 1842-2003