Box 10

Scope and Contents Weaving Room (2,400 Looms), great Olympian Cotton Mills, Columbia, South Carolina. Black and white image of a large weaving room shown with many workers, both male and female, standing at the looms. These are bobbin-changing cam looms; note the box of bobbins in the lower right foreground. Fifty years ago little was known of the enormous cotton crop of America manufactured into cloth in Southern States. While the domestic and foreign shipments are still immense in volume, the South is...

Scope and Contents Black and white image depicts a large weaving room. In foreground is a woman weaving at a loom, and in the background are several workers. Weaving is the interlacing of two sets of threads, one longitudinal and the other transverse, so as to produce cloth. The yarn running lengthwise is called warp; the crosswise threads are called filling (in England, called weft). Explanations of the five operations in weaving--shedding, picking, beating up, letting off, and taking up--are on the reverse...

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Black and white image depicts a large weaving room in the White Oak MIlls. In the foreground is a woman with a large white bonnet on her head standing at her machine. Several male workers can be seen in the background. North Bennington, Vt.: H.C. White Co. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black and white image depicts large weave room in the Continental Mills. Looms are shown in foreground; workers are grouped together in background. Lewiston, Me.: Rideout & McFadden, ca. 1880s. 17.5 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black-and-white image of a large weave room with rows of looms stretching to the background. No location given, no workers visible. Wm. W. Lombard, Photographer. ca. 1890. 17.5 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black and white image of a weave room in the only textile mill in Amana, the Amana Society, which was a woolen mill. Looms are cam looms; no workers visible. Large support pole in foreground with table directly behind it. ca. 1907. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Scope and Contents Black and white image of a weave room in an unknown mill. Looms are in foreground; workers are lined up in background. There is a woman standing in the center of the image in front of a loom, but the overall image is rather dark and she is difficult to see. Printed on back of the card: "The Holmes Stereoscope, with the Inventions and Improvements added by Joseph L. Bates, 129 Washington Street, Boston. For sale by French & Sawyer." ca. 1860. 17.5 x 8.5 cm. Format: Stereoptic...

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Color image of an automatic loom with Northrop Shuttle Battery, 1939. "British Northrup Loom Co., Blackburn, 1939" visible on loom. Loom is located in the Science Museum in London, England. London: Science Museum; printed in England by The Campfield Press, St. Albans. Postmarked Sep 10, 1981 in South Kensington [London]. 15 x 10.5 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Cam Looms [Fall River, Mass.?]. Black and white image depicts a large weave room filled with looms, possibly in Fall River, Mass. Gay's Gallery of Art - Stereoscopic Views from all parts of the world. Gay's Gallery of Art was located in Fall River, Mass. ca. 1890. 17.5 x 10 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black and white image depicts a large weave room filled with looms. A male worker is seen at a loom in the foreground; several other workers, mostly male, are visible in the background. The looms here are cam looms with an overhead picker motion (British style). New York: Underwood & Underwood, ca. 1900-1920. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.