Box 9

Scope and Contents Black and white image shows a scene in the desert with a row of spinning wheels and two boys working at each to spin cotton into threads for the manufacture of Egyptian cotton. The spinning wheels seen here are much cruder than those used in the 1800s, and require two persons to use one wheel. One turns the wheel while the other draws out the thread. In the background, what appears to be stones are piles of cotton ready for spinning. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Co., ca. 1900-1920. 18 x 9...

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Black and white image shows an outdoor scene with one man spinnning on a small spinning wheel, and two looking on. Two of the men are wearing coats made of animal fur (perhaps wool) and the third man is carrying a bag that is also made of fur. A dog sits by the spinner. Landes is a region in southwest France. Carte Postale. Postmarked April 16, 1946 in Landes? 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Color image of a portrait of Anna Codde, by Maerten van Heemskerck, showing a woman spinning thread at a spinning wheel. Original painting in The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [after 1948] 10.5 x 15 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Scope and Contents Black and white image shows a man using a manual spinning machine on the far left. Other men are standing in line with raw material ready to be spun. The scene is outdoors and palm trees are in the background. Coir is the fiber obtained from the outer husk of the Indian or Cingalese cocoanut. The coarser stock is used in brushes; the better quality in rope and cocoa matting. Based on the dress of the men and the scenery, this scene is most likely in India. Carter's Series No. 27. [Printed in...

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Black and white image depicts spinning wheel in front of curtain backdrop. No location given. Littleton, New Hampshire: Photographed and published by B. W. Kilburn, ca. 1890s. 18 x 10.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Color image depicts Priscilla Mullen sitting at a spinning wheel in early Plymouth, Mass., with John Alden kneeling by her side. Very similar to Item 78, in this folder. Copyrighted and published by A. S. Burbank, Plymouth, Mass. Phostint trademark made only by Detroit Publishing Co. "July 30 / 1921" written on reverse of card. ca. 1915-1921. 9 x 14 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Scope and Contents Black and white image depicts a young woman on the left, a young girl in the middle, and a young man on the right, all standing behind a spinning wheel with a distaff of flax fibers, and looking at a magazine. In the background is an elaborately carved wooden piece, which may be the "box bed" referred to in the title. Pont-Aven is in Brittany, and all three are dressed in elaborate costumes suggesting Breton dress. A verse by Botrel (most likely Jean-Baptiste-Theodore-Marie Botrel, a native...

Scope and Contents Color image depicts four women, one man, and a little boy, each working by hand with flax pulled from distaffs. Two spinning wheels are visible; the little boy appears to be working with a winder. The interior setting seems to be within a home with many photographs and prints hanging on the walls of the room. Stamped with the name of a hotel on the reverse in Donauschingen, a town in the Black Forest [Schwarzwald] area of Germany. J. G. Fleig, Photogr., Kunstverlag, Hornberg [Germany]. Dated...

Scope and Contents Black-and-white image (slightly tinted) shows two women in colonial costume seated by a spinning wheel." Appears to be an illustration of a watercolor (?) titled The Gossips," by F. R. Smith. On reverse of card: "Presented by The Duxbury Shop, Miss E. M. Leete, Prop., Duxbury, Mass." A Longfellow poem relating to spinning is also printed on the reverse. May have been used for promotional purpose: Published by Geo. E. Keith Company, Makers of Walk-Over Shoes. Logo bottom right corner of front...

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Black and white image depicts a woman standing by a great wheel, and a man sitting down behind the edge of the great wheel in what appears to be a posed situation, as they are in a wooded setting, surrounded by trees and ferns. A smaller spinning wheel is in the foreground. No location given. ca. 1900. 17.5 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.