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Color image of a group of female employees posing near roving frames. Speeder is a term sometimes used for the third machine in a series of roving frames or for roving frames in general. 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.

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Gelatin silver print, ca. 1907-1910. Written on reverse: "This is Sarah Ramsbottom." Location is unidentified. 9 x 14 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Scope and Contents Black and white image shows rows of roving machinery. Possibly worsted roving on the Bradford system, but that has not been clearly identified. One male worker is in view. Labeled "Warping room, factory of the famous Irish linen, Belfast, Ireland," but this is clearly roving not warping. It is not totally clear if this is linen, although it would be unlikely that the publisher mistook the location of the image. See Items 20 and 21, in this folder, for copies of this image copyrighted by...

Scope and Contents Black and white image shows rows of roving machinery. Possibly worsted roving on the Bradford system, but that has not been clearly identified. One male worker is in view. Labeled "Warping room, factory of the famous Irish linen, Belfast, Ireland," but this is clearly roving not warping. It is not totally clear if this is linen, although it would be unlikely that the publisher mistook the location of the image. See Item 21, in this folder, for another copy of this image copyrighted by...

Scope and Contents Black and white image shows rows of roving machinery. Possibly worsted roving on the Bradford system, but that has not been clearly identified. One male worker is in view. Labeled "Warping room, factory of the famous Irish linen, Belfast, Ireland," but this is clearly roving not warping. It is not totally clear if this is linen, although it would be unlikely that the publisher mistook the location of the image. Title printed on reverse in English, French, German, Spanish, Swedish, and...

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Museo didattico della Seta Como. Cucicartoni per disegni jacquard.Ph. Congiu/Farabolafoto - stampa Tip. Ed. Nami.

Format: Postcard.

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Black-and-white image depicts several Indian men working on a loom on the right, with an Indian woman squatting on the left in front of a spinning wheel, on which she is spinning goat hair into yarn. A number of men and boys look on at the left, while another man looks out the window of the dwelling on the right. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company, ca. 1900- 1920. 17.75 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Scope and Contents Color image of the spinning room, showing several spinning wheels and a loom in a room with a fireplace on the right-hand side. Printed on back of card: "Martha Washington's Spinning Room, Mt. Vernon, Va. The Spinning Room contains a valuable and interesting collection of spinning wheels and other paraphernalia of the industrious housewife of Martha Washington's day." Published by B. S. Reynolds Co., 1202 D. St., Northwest, Washington, D.C., ca. 1915-1930. 14 x 9 cm. See Item 57, in this...

Scope and Contents Black and white image shows a male worker operating a spinning jenny. The spinning jenny was a spinning machine invented in 1764 by the English weaver James Hargreaves, and is usually credited with being the first practical machine for spinning cotton yarn. Postcard was originally printed for The West Yorkshire Folk Museum, Shibden Hall, Halifax [England]. That text has been lined through and replaced with "Textile Department, Bankfield Museum, Halifax [England]." ca. 1960s. 14 x 9 cm....

Scope and Contents Sepia-tone image reproduces painting by French painter Eugene Burgat, "Fileuse de la Haute-Savoie" in the Musee du Luxembourg, Paris. Haute-Savoie (Upper Savoy) is a region in eastern France, bordering both Switzerland and Italy. The image shows a woman feeding raw wool into a spinning wheel operated with a foot pedal. Bobbins and other related items are in the background. A Union Postale Universelle with "Post Card" printed on the reverse in English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish,...