Scope and Contents Black and white image shows four girls and one workman gathering the silk ends in a silk reeling plant on Mount Lebanon. The little girl on the right has got hold of the ends of loose silk threads to bring them together to form a fiber of the necessary thickness. These threads are passed through the eyelets or guides of the arrangement overhead, and then transferred to the reeling frames boxed in at the left. The girl leaning against the wall is tying the loose ends. The two girls sitting...

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Black and white image shows rows of equipment used for drying bags of raw silk skeins after soaking in warm soapsuds. Workmen are seen hanging the bags above the bins as supervisors look on. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company. 17.75 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black and white image shows a female worker weighing skeins of raw (reeled) silk that are most likely imported from Japan. Piles of skeins are in view. The worker wears a long white apron over her clothes and uses a small scale on the counter in front of her. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company. 17.75 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black and white image shows femaile worker arranging frisons after washing, in preparation for the dressing machine process. Frisons are unreelable silk cocoons pulled loose and matted together into a thick rope-like strand, as can be clearly seen in the woman's hands here. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company. 17.75 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black and white image shows rolls of fine silk fiber in a highly finished state, having gone through various washing, cleaning, dressing, and combing processes. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company, ca. 1914. 17.75 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Scope and Contents Black and white image shows rows of equipment for reeling the silk to form skeins. The boys in the background place the spools on the lower part of the frames, and then start the thread in the frames and attend them as they rapidly spin, taking up the thread from the spools. The rectangular frames of silk are then placed on the form between the two girls who, using combs in their hands, separate the thread into smaller skein sections and pass a cord through and tie it, thus making it easy to...

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Color image of reproduction of painting by the Nurnberger Meister about 1400, depicting Mary and Jesus with Elizabeth and her son, John the Baptist. The woman on the right appears to be reeling silk on the winder in the center of the image. The woman on the left holds a spindle (?) in her left hand. Nuremberg, Germany: Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nurnberg, ca. 1968. 14.75 x 10.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Color image of two women working at a silk reeling machine within what appears to be a large exhibit on silk or textiles in general. The women and machinery are set off from the rest of the room by a barrier; above them are several large images of different aspects of silk manufacture. Glass cases on the right show other exhibits, again, possibly textile. No publisher given. ca. 1940s. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Black and white image shows rows of drawing machines that comb and straighten the silk fibers, which are then run evenly on the surface of the drum seen at the right. From there they are removed and rolled up in small rolls. The female workers here are inserting fibers from the dressing machine into the drawing machines for the combing and straightening process. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company. 17.75 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Scope and Contents Black and white image shows workmen at large vats and tubs used in the process of adding a tin substance to the skeins to increase their weight and give it body. After drying, the skeins are alternately rinsed and submerged in phosphate of soda and ammonia to fix the tin salt in the fiber. No specific Paterson mill is given, but Paterson, N.J., was one of the centers for the silk industry in the U.S. New York: Underwood & Underwood, ca. 1900-1920. 17.75 x 8.5 cm. Format:...