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Box 9

 Container

Contains 250 Results:

Item 159: The spinning room of a large woolen mill, Lima, Peru

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

Black and white image shows two rows of spinning machinery, filling winding from ring spinning bobbins. Between the rows are carts and baskets for bobbins. The mill is not further identified. Published by The Hispanic Society of America, [no earlier than 1908]. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Dates: 1842-2003

Item 160: Woman spinner sitting on donkey in Olympia, Greece

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

ca. 1963. Black and white image shows Greek woman dressed in black, seated on a donkey, hand spinning yarn. 14.75 x 10.75 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Dates: 1842-2003

Item 161: Woman spinning in Olympia, Greece, 1963

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

ca. 1963. Black and white image shows Greek woman dressed in black, seated outdoors, hand spinning yarn. A goat is tethered nearby. Postmarked 1963. 15.5 x 10.5 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Dates: 1963

Item 162: Spinning wheel, wool (single-thread).

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

Tolson Memorial Museum, Huddersfield, England. [no later than 1962] Black and white image shows a single-thread spinning wheel. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Dates: 1842-2003

Item 164: Moving-spindle spinning wheel with spindle on accordion arm, 2003

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

Marked "Clipper Spinner". patented by Timothy Dewey Brown in 1883 in Canada. Andover, MA: The Spinning Wheel Sleuth.

Format: Postcard.

Dates: 2003

Item 165: Double wheel, double treadle spinning wheel, 2003

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

The Spinning Wheel Sleuth. Similar to one market "J. Farnham" for Joel Farnham [1774-1858], Owego, NY. Andover, MA: The Spinning Wheel Sleuth.

Format: Postcard.

Dates: 2003

Item 167: Vertical spinning wheel with bobbin/flyer unit below the drive wheel on tripod frame, 2003

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

Probably by Daniel Danner [1803-1881], Mannheim, PA. Andover, MA: The Spinning Wheel Sleuth.

Format: Postcard.

Dates: 2003

Item 168: Double-flyer spinning wheel with drive wheel below, 2003

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

Marked S P for Solomon Plant [1741-1822], Stratford, CT. Andover, MA: The Spinning Wheel Sleuth.

Format: Postcard.

Dates: 2003