Box 9

Scope and Contents Black and white image shows a male worker operating a spinning jenny. The spinning jenny was a spinning machine invented in 1764 by the English weaver James Hargreaves, and is usually credited with being the first practical machine for spinning cotton yarn. Postcard was originally printed for The West Yorkshire Folk Museum, Shibden Hall, Halifax [England]. That text has been lined through and replaced with "Textile Department, Bankfield Museum, Halifax [England]." ca. 1960s. 14 x 9 cm....

Scope and Contents Sepia-tone image reproduces painting by French painter Eugene Burgat, "Fileuse de la Haute-Savoie" in the Musee du Luxembourg, Paris. Haute-Savoie (Upper Savoy) is a region in eastern France, bordering both Switzerland and Italy. The image shows a woman feeding raw wool into a spinning wheel operated with a foot pedal. Bobbins and other related items are in the background. A Union Postale Universelle with "Post Card" printed on the reverse in English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish,...

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Black-and-white image of ten women posing outdoors, each with a spinning wheel. Four of the wheels are great wheels. Several of them are in Colonial dress. This was apparently part of Antrim's 150th anniversary. Handwritten on reverse side: "It was the custom of the early women to carry their wheels to a neighboring house, and spend the afternoon spinning and visiting together." Photo by E.D. Putnam & Son, Antrim, New Hampshire. 13.5 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Black and white image shows one woman hand carding wool on the left, while two others are spinning on spinning wheels. A man in the center is reading at a table. Appears to be photographed in a parlor or living area. Fohr is one of the North Frisian Islands on the German coast of the North Sea. Wilh. Muller, Photogr., Wyk. Postmarked 1902 in Dagebull (Germany). 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Color reproduction of painting shows a young woman holding a distaff with (probably) wool in her left hand and an implement in her right. Original painting gift of Samuel Dennis Warren, 1877, to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston, Mass.: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Postmarked April 30, 1984. 11 x 15.25 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Color image shows woman old enough to be a grandmother, working fibers through a distaff as a little boy looks on. Both are pictured by a fireplace; the grandmother is seated in a chair as she works; the boy is seated on the floor looking up at her. Printed in Greece by M. Toumbis. ca. 1970. 14.5 x 10 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Black and white image shows a woman in the foreground, spinning thread using a distaff. She is shown running the thread through her teeth. Another woman works in the background, possibly sewing. Original photograph by W. Eugene Smith, 1950. From the photography collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Printed in Western Germany. Date stamped Aug. 11 1966 on reverse, but card was probably manufactured between 1950 and 1962. 10.5 x 14.75 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Black and white image shows two rows of spinning machinery, including several spinning wheels, a winder, and a variety of other early textile machinery on display in Deerfield, Mass. A vertical jenny can be seen at the right of the image. "Russell Kittell Jany 8. 1921" written on reverse of card. Card was most likely produced between 1918 and 1922. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Black and white image shows several textile-related implements photographed in an [unknown] outside setting. They include a great wheel, a spinning wheel, and a reel (on the left) that would wind yarn into skeins. Dated by hand 10-3-12, but this style of postcard was manufactured only in 1906. Penn. mailing address but card was never stamped and mailed. Dated by hand 11/18/06, in the stamp area. 14 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Color image of wallpapered room with fireplace. Cooking implements and a bellows are in the fireplace opening. By the fireplace is a spinning wheel and an infant's cradle. A.C. Bosselman & Co., New York. Printed in Germany. Postmarked May 3, 1909 in Providence. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.