Box 10

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Trade card from the Arbuckle Brothers Coffee Company

Format: Trade card.

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Color image of a man working at a loom. Image is of Vincent Van Gogh's "Weversinterieur met weaver" (1894) [Interior with weaver (Nuenen)]. Original in Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo, Holland. Printed in Holland by Hooiberg, Epe. Copyright Kroller-Muller Foundation. ca. 1970s. 15 x 10.5 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Brown-tinted card showing two separate images. On the left is a woman standing, working at a spinning wheel, with a woman sitting in the foreground, winding the thread? On the right is an image of a man working at a loom. Images are from Hazen's "Panorama of Professions and Trades." North Andover, Mass.: Merrimack Valley Textile Museum Collection, ca. 1970s. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Black and white image of a woman sitting with her back to the camera working at a loom. No location given. ca. 1926-1939. 9 x 14 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Black and white image of the loom room at Hotel Northampton and Wiggins Old Tavern in Northhampton, Mass. Image shows at least two looms in the background, with a winder in the foreground, and what appears to be a great wheel in the left background. Lewis N. Wiggins was the landlord; Wiggins built the Hotel Northampton in 1927 and moved the Old Tavern to the building sometime later. ca. 1930s. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Black and white image of a woman working at a loom on the right, and a man with a shuttle in his hand sitting in front of a spinning wheel on the left. The man appears elderly as does the woman, although her image is not as clear. No location given. E.F. Branning's Artino Card, N.Y. City. Postmarked Mar. 22, 1906. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Color image of a woman working at a loom in Murray Bay, Quebec, Canada [La Malbaie, Quebec]. See also 0000.1939.11 for a very similar image of the same woman. Novelty Manufacturing & Art Co., Ltd., Montreal. Publ. for Canada Railway News Co., Ltd., Montreal. ca. 1912-1926. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Color image of a woman working at a loom in Murray Bay, Quebec, Canada [La Malbaie, Quebec]. Title taken from 0000.1751.75, which features a very similar image of the same woman. The Post Card & Greeting Card Co. Ltd., Toronto. Made in Canada. ca. 1921-1935. 13.5 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Color image of a woman in Colonial dress working at a loom. A spinning wheel is in the right background. Printed on reverse: The Weaving House, Williamsburg, Virginia. In this craft shop, the weaver, as in colonial days, spins the yarn by hand and fashions beautiful fabrics on an eighteenth-century loom." Mirro-Krome Card by H.S. Crocker Co., Inc., San Francisco. Postmarked April 27, 1963 in Williamsburg. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Scope and Contents Color image of a painting showing a home with a loom in the background at which a woman works. A small spinning wheel is in the foreground at which another woman works with a small boy sitting near her. A bed is on the right, in front of which is a cradle with a sleeping baby. A crucifix is on the back wall, and a Madonna & Child painting on the right wall is surrounded by flowers. A table and chest is on the left and there are windows in tow sides of the room. A glimpse of another room...