Box 10
Contains 237 Results:
Item 74: Automatic Northrup Loom, England, 1981
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.
Item 75: Cam Looms [Fall River, Mass.?]
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.
Item 76: Weaving home-grown cotton for the S[outh] American trade in a fine, modern mill at Lima, Peru
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.
Item 77: Cotton Weaving Shed, Burnley, England
Black and white image of a weaving shed in Burnley, England. Shown in foreground is a woman working a cam loom. A male workers is about halfway down the aisle behind her. The location is unknown; there were numerous textile mills in Burnley around the turn of the 20th century. Burnley, England: Excelsior Stereoscopic Tours, M. E. Wright, Publisher, ca. 1900. 17.75 x 9 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 78: 1,000 plain weaving looms, great linen factory, Belfast, Ireland, 1903
Black and white image of 1000 plain weaving looms (cam looms) in an unknown linen factory in Belfast. Two male workers have their backs to the camera; another is barely visible in the aisle in the background, with a fourth behind him. New York: Underwood and Underwood. 17.5 x 9 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 79: Androscoggin Mill Weave Room, Lewiston, Me.
Black and white image of a large weave room filled with cam looms. On either side of the center aisle, female workers stand by their looms. A man in a white shirt and vest, possibly a supervisor?, stands on the far left. Tentatively identified as the Androscoggin Mills in Lewiston. ca. 1890. 17 x 8 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
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.