Box 9

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Black and white image shows a female worker adjusting fibers being fed through the roivng frame onto spindles. The roving passes down over the machine in such a way that the fibers are twisted into threads by the spindles seen at the bottom. Although not specified here, this is the Cheney Bros. plant in South Manchester, Conn. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company, ca. mid-1920s. 18.75 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black and white image shows rows of roving frames involving jute. Roving elongates and twists the sliver into thread and onto spindles. Note the roving cans clustered around the end of each set of machines. Carter's Series, No. 54. [Printed in Great Britain] [no earlier than 1902] 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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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...