Box 9

Scope and Contents Black and white image depicts a woman seated outside a building hackling flax, which is combing the material by means of steel pins, the fineness and setting of the pins varying with the stage of the operation. She is dragging the flax through the pins set up on a low table in front of her. Several other bunches of flax are to the left, and a spinning wheel is in the background. All of this is taking place outside a barn perhaps, as there is a wood clapboard and stone building behind her. No...

Scope and Contents Black and white image of a comical scene: a woman in front of an elaborately carved wooden screen (which probably hides is the Breton closed or box bed of the title) with two gentlemen looking at her from above and behind the screen. One of the men is pointing to her as she undresses; she is not "finally alone" as the title suggests. A grandfather clock and a flax spinning wheel are also in the scene on the left. Artaud et Nozais, Imp-Eoit, Nantes. [no earlier than 1904] 9 x 14 cm....

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Black and white image depicts two young women dressed in costumes from Normandy, France. One is spinning flax on a wheel while the other does needlework. [no earlier than 1904] 9 x 13.75 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Scope and Contents Black-and-white image depicts a ladies' parlor wheel, identified as a ladies' parlor wheel from St. Albans, England, although it is unclear from where this information comes. A parlor wheel took up less space because the spinning apparatus was mounted above the drive wheel, which in turn was mounted above the bench and treadle. The little fence, the drawer below it, the treadle at right angles to the spindle, the foot rest in front of the treadle, and the footman on the spinster's side of...

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Black and white image depicts a woman working at a flax spinning wheel. The wheel appears to be set up outside a stucco and beam cottage. The title "Beginning of the great linen industry, Ireland" refers to this being the beginning of the process of making linen, although the real beginning of the process would be harvesting the flax. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Co.; copyright Underwood & Underwood, ca. 1900-1920. 18 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black and white image of an older woman standing outside a cabin at a great wheel. Woman is dressed in a long skirt or dress, with a long apron over it. Location is identified as Tennessee in a duplicate image, Item 70, in this folder, (postmarked 1934). Copyright W. N. Cline. Copyright date of photo is possibly 1919, but this card manfuactured between 1930 and 1950. See also Item 71, in this folder, for a colorized version of this image. 14 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Painting by Maerten Van Heemskerck (1488-1574) in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Color image is of a woman spinning flax. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Rijksmuseum, ca. 1950-1968. 10.5 x 15 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Painting by Maerten Van Heemskerck (1488-1574) in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Color image is of a woman spinning flax. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Rijksmuseum, ca. 1950-1968. 10.5 x 15 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Painting by Maerten Van Heemskerck (1488-1574) in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Color image is of a woman spinning flax. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Rijksmuseum, ca. 1950-1968. 10.5 x 15 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Color image depicts woman spinning flax outside a country cottage. In the background is a man sitting on a bench (?), along with a dog, chickens, and a rooster. Image most likely from Ireland, as the postcard is postmarked in Dalkey, Ireland, and addressed to Dublin, Ireland. Valentine's Series, printed in Great Britain. Postmarked 1903. 13.75 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Postcard.