Box 9
Contains 250 Results:
Item 5: Speeders [Roving], Atlantic Cotton Mills, Lawrence, Mass.
A. B. Hamor, ca. 1880. Black and white image shows rows of speeders, machinery which is one of the stages of the roving process. No workers visible. 17.75 x 10 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 6: Inside a cotton mill at Malaga - spooling room and girl employees, Spain
Black and white image shows rows of roving frames with spindles of thread. Female workers are posed by the front row of frames. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company; copyrighted by Underwood and Underwood, ca. 1900-1920. 17.75 x 8.5 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 7: Roving Frame manufactured by William Higgins & Sons, Manchester, England
Black-and- white image shows male worker standing by a row of roving machines. He holds a spindle of thread in his right hand and a tool (?) of some sort in his left. Location of mill is unknown, but the plaque on the end of the row indicates the machinery was manufactured by Higgins & Sons of Manchester (Salford), England. ca. 1900. 17.5 x 10 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 8: Harmony Mill No. 1, Cohoes, N.Y. - speeder, slubber and cards
Black and white image shows rows of speeders and slubbers with carding machines in the background. Speeder is a term applied to the third machine in a series of roving frames; a slubber is the first of the roving frames in the cotton system. Albany, N.Y.: Haines, ca. 1870. 17 x 8 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 9: "Speeders," where two strands are drawn and twisted together, White Oak Mills, Greensboro, N.C., 1907
Black and white image shows rows of speeders, a term used for the third machine in a series of roving frames. Roving frames reduce the size of the stock, even it, and insert a twist into it. Two female workers are seen operating the machinery. North Bennington, Vt.: H.C. White Co. 17.75 x 8.5 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 10: Slubbing cotton yarn, Dallas Cotton Mills, Dallas Texas, 1905
Black and white image shows rows of slubbers, which is another term for the part of the roving process used in the cotton system of yarn manufacturing. Slubbing is the intermediary step between drawing and roving. Here a male worker is feeding sliver from cans into the frame where it is elongated, twisted, and wound upon bobbins. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company. 17.75 x 8.5 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 11: Slubbers in a Fall River [Mass.] Cotton Mill
Color image shows two workmen, each standing by a row of slubbers. Slubbing is another term for part of the roving process in the cotton yarn system. Slubbers elongate the sliver and twist it into thread, which is then fed onto bobbins. Published by F.P. Charlton Co., Fall River, Mass. Printed in Germany. ca. 1907-1912. 14 x 9 cm.
Format: Postcard.
Item 12: Roving frame - Silk Industry (Spun Silk), [Cheney Bros.], So. Manchester, Conn.
Item 13: Slubbers in a Fall River Cotton Mill [Fall River, Mass.], 1909
Color image of two male employees posing with slubbers. A slubber is the first of the roving frames used in the cotton system of yarn manufacturing. Specific mill is not identified. Published by F.P. Charlton Co., Fall River, Mass. Made in Germany. Postmarked Nov. 5, 1909 in Fall River. 14 x 9 cm.
Format: Postcard.
Item 14: Cotton Roving Frames
Black and white image shows a large room filled with cotton roving frames. No workers visible. Location unknown. ca. 1910-1918. 13.5 x 8.5 cm.
Format: Postcard.