Box 10
Contains 237 Results:
Item 155: Interior of Weave Shed, largest single Room in the World, Newmarket, New Hampshire, 1927
Newmarket Manufacturing Company. Black and white image of a large room of weaving machines. Message in German. Frank W Swallow Post Card Co. Inc. Exeter New Hampshire Pen notation indicates date of December the 4th Sunday 1927. See also Item 154, in this folder, for another view of this room with the same caption. 14 x 9.5 cm.
Format: Postcard.
Item 156: Overshot coverlet, near Dundas, Ontario
ca. 1860-1880. Color image shows a detail of a brown, red, tan, and white overshot coverlet pattern. Woven by Mina Misener Morton. The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada. Printed in Canada. ca. 1970-1979. 15 x 10.5 cm.
Format: Postcard.
Item 157: Overshot coverlet, Ontario, mid-19th century.
Color image shows a detail of red and white pattern of an overshot coverlet. The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada. Printed in Canada. ca. 1970-1979. 15 x 10.5 cm.
Format: Postcard.
Item 158: Jacquard coverlet, near Jordan, Ontario, 1842
Color image shows a detail of a brown and white floral pattern on a jacquard coverlet. Woven by Wilhelm Armbrust for a marriage in 1842. The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada. Printed in Canada. ca. 1970-1979. 15 x 10.5 cm.
Format: Postcard.
Item 159: Young male weaver
Black and white image of a young man with shuttle binder(?) in his hand; standing at loom with Jacquard attachment. Round image; image is overexposed. Location of mill is unknown. ca. 1910-1918. 8.5 x 13.75 cm.
Format: Postcard.
Item 160: Machine at Edison Museum in Florida for weaving wire
Format: Postcard.
Item 80: Plain weaving room (1000 looms) in a linen mill, Belfast, Ireland
Black and white image, taken from a somewhat elevated position, showing a large weaving room containing cam looms with an overhead picker motion (British style), in the Ewart factory in Belfast. These looms produce, plain, simple weaving. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company, copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood, ca. 1900-1920. 17.5 x 8.5 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 81: Cam looms in an unknown mill
Black and white image depicts a vast weave room in an unknown mill, showing hundreds of looms. A clock hangs down from the ceiling in the background of the image, but the clock itself is probably in the center of the room. Possibly Lawrence, Mass.? ca. 1890. 18 x 10 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 82: Weaving room, cotton mill, Augusta, Ga.
Black and white image of a weave room in an unknown cotton mill in Augusta, Ga., showing rows of cam looms. Washington, D.C.: J. F. Jarvis, Publisher, ca. 1892. 17.75 x 9 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 83: Machines weaving dozens of fine taffeta silk ribbons, Paterson, N.J.
Black and white image of a weave room showing silk ribbons woven in the same fashion as broadgoods. The chief difference is due to the narrower width of ribbons. Twenty to thirty ribbons may be woven at the same time. Specific mill not identified. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company, ca. 1916-1920. 18 x 9 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.