Box 9
Contains 250 Results:
Item 6: Doubling many threads into one and spinning twice for filling, Silk Throwing Plant, N.J.
Black and white image shows two women working on machines in the spinning room of a silk-throwing plant in New Jersey, probably Paterson, but the specific mill is not identified. These machines both twist and double the threads in one process. New York: Underwood & Underwood, ca. 1900-1910. 17.75 x 8.5 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 7: Twine Twisting Room
Black and white image shows male and female workers in a twine twisting room in an unidentified mill in Great Britain. Carter's Series No. 38. Printed in Great Britain. [no earlier than 1902] 13.75 x 8.75 cm.
Format: Postcard.
Item 8: Doubling Frame in a large woolen mill, Lawrence, Mass.
Doubling Frame in a large woolen mill, Lawrence, Mass. Black and white image shows a female worker standing at a doubling frame that is twisting single threads into two-fold or three-fold thread for specific applications. Although not specifically identified, this is most likely the Pacific Mills in Lawrence. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company, ca. 1910. 18 x 8.5 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 9: Spinning Room, Lawrence Mill
Lowell, Mass., ca. 1891. Photographed and published by B. W. Kilburn, Littleton, New Hampshire. Image shows long rows of spinning machinery. Machinery in left foreground made by Lowell Machine Shop, Lowell, Mass. Image is overdeveloped. 17.5 x 9 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 10: Exposition de Liege 1905 - Grandes Usines de Belgique, 1905
Item 11: Bobbins used to weave cloth in Lowell, Mass. textile mills, 1984
Color image shows a group of filled bobbins at the Lowell National Historical Park, Lowell, Mass. Bobbins of thread were inserted in the flying shuttles that wove the cotton cloth produced in the Lowell textile mills. NPS photograph by James McKay. Lowell, Mass.: Lowell National Historical Park; copyright Eastern National Park & Monument Association. Printed by Consolidated/Drake Press, Philadelphia, Penn. Postmarked 1984. 15 x 10.5 cm.
Format: Postcard.
Item 12: Twisting Room, Willimantic Linen Co.'s Thread Works, Willimantic Conn.
Hartford, Conn.: Prescott & White, Photographers, ca. 1880s. Gelatin silver print. Black and white image shows rows of twisting machinery in the Willimantic Linen Co. Two female employees stand on the left against the windows; a male employe is visible on the right, with two women behind him (blurred). 17.25 x 8.25 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 13: Twisting Room (wet twisting), Willimantic Linen Co.'s Thread Works, Willimantic Conn.
Hartford, Conn.: Prescott & White, Photographers, ca. 1880s. Gelatin silver print. Black and white image shows rows of twisting machinery in the Willimantic Linen Co. Wet twisting is a method of twisting in which the yarns passed through a trough of water before they are twisted together. This can be seen in the center foreground. No employees visible. 17.25 x 8.25 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 1: Mule and ring frame machines on display in Deutsches Museum [Munich, Germany]
Black and white image shows a cotton spinning mule on the left, and a cotton ring spinning frame on the right. The mule dates from approximately 1895. Deutsches Museum, Sonder-Ausstellung Textiltechnik - Spinnmaschinen. [Published by] A. Lengouer, Munchen [Munich]. [no later than 1968]. 14 x 9 cm.
Format: Postcard.
Item 2: Interior View, Cotton Mill, Lowell, Mass.
ca.1880s. Published by J. Ward & Sons, 125 Washington Street, Boston, Mass. View of roving operation, showing slubbers and intermediate roving frames. 17.5 x 8.5 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.