Box 9
Contains 250 Results:
Item 1: Twister at work in Assobat [Assabet] Woolen Mills, Maynard, Mass.
Black and white image shows female worker standing at a twister. Two or more threads of yarn may be twisted together with a given number of turns to the inch. The yarn passes from the large rollers at the top, through the small rings below, and under the iron rollers in front of the operator's hand. New York: Underwood & Underwood, ca. 1900-1910. 17.75 x 8.5 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 2: Winding the fine raw silk in a large American Silk Throwing Plant, Paterson, N.J.
Black and white image shows female workers working with raw silk to clean it of some of the animal gum and the threads made ready for weavers by being wound, doubled together and spun. The skeins are put over the hexagonal reels and the silk filaments wound from them on to the small spools under the watchful direction of the winders. New York: Underwood & Underwood, Publishers, ca. 1900-1905. 17.75 x 8.75 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 3: Machines that double and spin for the warp, Silk Throwing Plant, Paterson N.J.
Black and white image shows female workers working at machinery that doubles three and four silk threads together and then spins them for the warp, the threads that run the long way of the piece. The filaments are still too thin for weaving, so must be doubled together and spun. The speicific mill is not identified. New York: Underwood & Underwood, ca. 1900-1910. 17.75 x 8.75 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 4: Winding thread from skeins on to bobbins -- Silk Industry (Reeled Silk Throwing), South Manchester, Conn., 1914
Black and white image shows skeins of raw silk being opened on reels in preparation for winding onto the large spools lying horizontally along the upper part of the machinery. Although not specifically identified, this is in the Cheney Bros. Silk Manufacturing Co. plant. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company. 17.75 x 8.75 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 5: Doubling Machine for winding thread into as many ply as desired -- Silk Industry (Reeled Silk Throwing), South Manchester, Conn., 1914
Item 6: Doubling many threads into one and spinning twice for filling, Silk Throwing Plant, N.J.
Black and white image shows two women working on machines in the spinning room of a silk-throwing plant in New Jersey, probably Paterson, but the specific mill is not identified. These machines both twist and double the threads in one process. New York: Underwood & Underwood, ca. 1900-1910. 17.75 x 8.5 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 7: Twine Twisting Room
Black and white image shows male and female workers in a twine twisting room in an unidentified mill in Great Britain. Carter's Series No. 38. Printed in Great Britain. [no earlier than 1902] 13.75 x 8.75 cm.
Format: Postcard.
Item 8: Doubling Frame in a large woolen mill, Lawrence, Mass.
Doubling Frame in a large woolen mill, Lawrence, Mass. Black and white image shows a female worker standing at a doubling frame that is twisting single threads into two-fold or three-fold thread for specific applications. Although not specifically identified, this is most likely the Pacific Mills in Lawrence. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company, ca. 1910. 18 x 8.5 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 9: Spinning Room, Lawrence Mill
Lowell, Mass., ca. 1891. Photographed and published by B. W. Kilburn, Littleton, New Hampshire. Image shows long rows of spinning machinery. Machinery in left foreground made by Lowell Machine Shop, Lowell, Mass. Image is overdeveloped. 17.5 x 9 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.