Box 9
Contains 250 Results:
Item 11: Bobbins used to weave cloth in Lowell, Mass. textile mills, 1984
Color image shows a group of filled bobbins at the Lowell National Historical Park, Lowell, Mass. Bobbins of thread were inserted in the flying shuttles that wove the cotton cloth produced in the Lowell textile mills. NPS photograph by James McKay. Lowell, Mass.: Lowell National Historical Park; copyright Eastern National Park & Monument Association. Printed by Consolidated/Drake Press, Philadelphia, Penn. Postmarked 1984. 15 x 10.5 cm.
Format: Postcard.
Item 12: Twisting Room, Willimantic Linen Co.'s Thread Works, Willimantic Conn.
Hartford, Conn.: Prescott & White, Photographers, ca. 1880s. Gelatin silver print. Black and white image shows rows of twisting machinery in the Willimantic Linen Co. Two female employees stand on the left against the windows; a male employe is visible on the right, with two women behind him (blurred). 17.25 x 8.25 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 13: Twisting Room (wet twisting), Willimantic Linen Co.'s Thread Works, Willimantic Conn.
Hartford, Conn.: Prescott & White, Photographers, ca. 1880s. Gelatin silver print. Black and white image shows rows of twisting machinery in the Willimantic Linen Co. Wet twisting is a method of twisting in which the yarns passed through a trough of water before they are twisted together. This can be seen in the center foreground. No employees visible. 17.25 x 8.25 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 1: Mule and ring frame machines on display in Deutsches Museum [Munich, Germany]
Black and white image shows a cotton spinning mule on the left, and a cotton ring spinning frame on the right. The mule dates from approximately 1895. Deutsches Museum, Sonder-Ausstellung Textiltechnik - Spinnmaschinen. [Published by] A. Lengouer, Munchen [Munich]. [no later than 1968]. 14 x 9 cm.
Format: Postcard.
Item 2: Interior View, Cotton Mill, Lowell, Mass.
ca.1880s. Published by J. Ward & Sons, 125 Washington Street, Boston, Mass. View of roving operation, showing slubbers and intermediate roving frames. 17.5 x 8.5 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 1: In a Syrian silk plant--examining and weighing raw silk for export
In a Syrian silk plant--examining and weighing raw silk for export. Black and white image shows female workers examining and weighing skeins of raw silk. Two male supervisors are seen in the background. The silk ropes hanging from the wooden racks are then twisted and folded into small skeins for packing. New York: Underwood and Underwood, ca. 1900-1920. 17.75 x 8.5 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 2: Inspecting, sorting and weighing raw silk skeins, [Cheney Bros.], South Manchester, Conn.
Black and white image shows two women working with the skeins of silk. These women are opening the bales of silk and checking the weights and gradings assigned to the silk before it left Japan. A cart of materials labeled "Throwing Dept. Gum Silk," is in view to the right of them. Behind a screened wall two other workers are visible in the background. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company, ca. 1914. 17.75 x 8.5 cm. Copy A.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 3: Inspecting, sorting and weighing raw silk skeins, [Cheney Bros.], South Manchester, Conn.
Black and white image shows two women working with the skeins of silk. These women are opening the bales of silk and checking the weights and gradings assigned to the silk before it left Japan. A cart of materials labeled "Throwing Dept. Gum Silk," is in view to the right of them. Behind a screened wall two other workers are visible in the background. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company, ca. 1914. 17.75 x 8.5 cm. Copy B.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 4: Combed silk as it appears when coming from the Dressing Machine, [Cheney Bros.], South Manchester, Conn., 1914
Black and white image shows a workman holding a rod from which the combed silk is hanging. He is next to the dressing machine where rods hold uncombed batches of silk ready for the process of combing. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company. 17.75 x 8.5 cm. Copy A.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 5: Combed silk as it appears when coming from the Dressing Machine, [Cheney Bros.], South Manchester, Conn., 1914
Black and white image shows a workman holding a rod from which the combed silk is hanging. He is next to the dressing machine where rods hold uncombed batches of silk ready for the process of combing. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company. 17.75 x 8.5 cm. Copy B.
Format: Stereoptic print.