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Box 9

 Container

Contains 250 Results:

Item 119: No. 1 Mill Spinning Room, Cocheco Manufacturing Co., Dover, New Hampshire

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

ca. 1880s. Black and white image shows rows of spinning machinery. No workiers visible. 17.75 x 10 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Dates: 1842-2003

Item 120: Spinning Room, Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., Manchester, New Hampshire

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Views of Manchester, New Hampshire, published by G. Frost & Co. ca. 1880s. Black and white image shows long rows of spinning machinery. No workers visible. 17.75 x 10.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Dates: 1842-2003

Item 121: In a great spinning room (104,000 spindles), Olympian [sic] Mills, Columbia, S.C.

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

In a great spinning room (104,000 spindles), Olympian [sic] Mills, Columbia, S.C. Black and white image shows rows of hundreds of ring spinning frames in the Olympia Cotton Mills. Young boys are removing the bobbins; one is in view with bare feet. Adult supervisors are nearby. New York: Underwood & Underwood, [no later than 1913]. 17.75 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Dates: 1842-2003

Item 122: Spinning Room (60,000 spindles) in the great White Oak Cotton Mills, Greensboro, N.C., 1907

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Black and white image shows rows of ring spinning frames in the White Oak Cotton MIlls. The workers visible are primarily female. A little girl is barely visible standing in the main aisle in the background. Chicago, Ill.: H.C. White Co. 18 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Dates: 1907

Item 123: Lancashire's Great Industry - Ring Spinning

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Color image shows a female worker between two rows of ring spinning frames in Lancashire, England. Bradford, Eng.: L. Pickles & Co. Printed in Britain. Strictly Copyright No. 7. ca. 1902-1910. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Dates: 1842-2003

Item 124: Ring Spinners in a Fall River Cotton Mill [Fall River, Mass.], 1910

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents Ring Spinners in a Fall River Cotton Mill [Fall River, Mass.]. Color image of employees posing next to (and sitting on) ring spinning frames in an unidentified mill in Fall River, Mass. Employees are primarily female, but two men are in the foreground. Ring spinning is a system of spinning on a ring frame in which the drafting of the roving, twisting of the yarn and winding it on the bobbin take place simultaneously and continuously. Published by F.P. Charlton Co., Fall River, Mass. Made in...
Dates: 1910

Item 125: Ring spinning machine: one of the mechanical processes in changing cotton to cloth in the Lowell mills [Lowell, Mass.]

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Color image shows a closeup of a ring spinning frame, with three spindles visible. Color photo by Jim McKay. Copyright Eastern National Park & Monument Association; distributed by Lowell National Historical Park, Lowell, Mass. Printed by Consolidated/Drake Press. ca. 1990-1997. 15 x 11 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Dates: 1842-2003

Item 126: Spinning room, Bates Mill, Lewiston, Maine

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Black and white image shows rows of many ring spinning frames with filled bobbins. Published by Rideout & McFadden, Lewiston, Me. ca. 1870s. 17.75 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Dates: 1842-2003

Item 127: Spinning Room, Cotton Mills, Orizaba, Mexico, 1900

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Black and white image shows rows of ring spinning frames in an unidentified cotton mill in Orizaba, Mexico. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company, B. L. Tingley. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Dates: 1900

Item 128: Cotton spinning room, Lowell, Mass. (throstle spinning machines)

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Black and white image shows two facing rows of throstle spinning frames in an unknown cotton mill in Lowell, Mass. Published by H. Ropes & Co., N.Y. ca. 1870s. 17.25 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Dates: 1842-2003