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Black and white image shows a long table where female workers are working with the cocoons. After soaking in warm water to loosen the threads, the workers remove and wind them into reels of raw silk, which will then be twisted into skeins. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company, ca. 1900-1920. 17.75 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Color image of oil painting on canvas, with swift in background. Gift of Erwin Davis, 1889, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Printed in the U.S.A. MMA. 15.25 x 10.75 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Black and white image shows rows of equipment being set up on a mill floor. Construction materials are spread on the floor beneath each frame and barrels are placed in an aisle between rows. Location unknown. Written on reverse: ":My machines run up as far as V"; V references an ink mark noting the location in the background of the image. ca. 1910-1918. 13.5 8.5 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Black and white image shows interior view of thread being wound from skeins. Two rows of winders are visible. No location given. ca. 1910-1918. 13.5 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Museo didattico della Seta Como. Macchina per tracciare il Moire. Ph. Congiu/Farabolafoto - stampa Tip. Ed. Nami.

Format: Postcard.

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Black and white image showing interior of unknown mill, with drawing frames in foreground and roving frames in background. New York: H. Ropes & Co., ca. 1880s. 17.75 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black and white image shows cotton fibers being fed into drawing frames. Each frame has six slivers being fed into it; the function of the drawing frame is to improve the uniformity of the sliver and to arrange the ffibers more nearly in parallel order. The six card slivers are fed in, drafted, and delivered as one sliver. Location is unknown but may be British. ca. 1920. 14 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Black and white image shows rows of drawing frames. Each frame has six slivers fed into it from the cans visible on the floor; the fibers are further straightened and arranged in parallel order, prior to spinning. One male worker visible on the left; another is further in the background on the right. New York: Underwood & Underwood. 18 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Scope and Contents Black and white image shows rows of drawing machines used for combing out and straightening the silk fibers. The machine in the foreground, where the female operator is seated, shows the product from the first drawing machine entering to the left and coming out on the other side of the machine as a sliver. Twelve continuous strips are being fed into the drawing machine, and pulled out into a single strip of continuous length, of the same size as one of the original twelve strips that make it...

Scope and Contents Black and white image shows rows of drawing frames. Cotton fibers (called slivers) are being fed from the cans on the floor into the drawing frame, whose function is to improve the uniformity of the sliver and arrange the fibers more nearly in parallel order. In general, six slivers are fed into each frame. Speeder is a term that refers to the third roving frame in a series of frames; they are somewhat visible in the background. There were ten cotton mills in Augusta in 1892, the date of...