Box 10

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Black and white image of a man working at a carpet loom. Unknown location. Postmarked March 3, 1910 but location is illegible. 13.75 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Scope and Contents Looms that produce woolen fabrics, in the largest weaving room in America. Black and white image of a weave room showing a line of dobby looms. A dobby is a mechanism attached to a loom for controlling the operation of the hearnesses. Dobbies are made so that they can operate up to 25 harnesses; by this means figured cloths can be woven. In the foreground is the warp-beam of one of the looms, its threads drawn upward and forward to pass through the heddles of various harnesses. New York:...

Scope and Contents Black and white image of a woman working at a ribbon loom weaving silk neckties. Goods running from very narrow baby ribbon up to twelve inches wide are known as ribbons and are manufactured on a special loom. A number of pieces of goods are woven side by side in such a loom with a separate shuttle for each piece of goods. Thirty ties are woven at one time in each loom in long strips like ribbons. Although not specified, this is the Cheney Brothers plant in South Manchester. Meadville, Pa.:...

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Black and white image of a large weaving room of an immense silk mill in Paterson, N.J., but not otherwise identified. Male workers stand beside their looms. The loom itself is a strong iron-framed machine at the rear of which is set the cylinder that has received the warp from the warping creels. One man can operate four of these machines. New York: Underwood & Underwood, ca. 1900-1920. 17.5 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black and white image of two women weavers standing next to a carpet loom, on which can be seen the carpet design being woven. Unknown location. Postmarked 1979, but card manufactured in 1905-1906. 13.5 x 7.5 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Black and white image of a large weave room in a silk mill in Paterson, N.J., but not specifically identified. Two male workers are visible: one man stands behind his loom on the left, and another is kneeling next to a loom on the right. A few other workers are behind or next to looms. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company, ca. 1900-1920. 17.5 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black and white image shows a large room filled with looms for weaving jute. Unknown location. Carter's Series No. 57. [Printed in Great Britain] [no earlier than 1902] 13.5 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black and white image depicts a large room filled with dobby looms. A line of poles runs down the center aisle of the room. Unknown location. ca. 1910-1918. 14 X 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Black and white image of a weave room showing two men working at narrow-fabric dobby looms, weaving ribbons. This long loom requires the attention of only one man, and weaves twenty-five to thirty ribbons at once. Image from an unidentified silk mill in Paterson. New York: Underwood & Underwood, ca. 1900-1920. 17.5 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Color image of a late 19th-century power loom, used in the weaving of horsehair for upholstery fabrics, that included innovations used in today's most modern machinery. See 1979.31 for an image of the actual loom. Lowell, Mass.: American Textile History Museum, ca. 1998-2005. 15 x 11 cm.

Format: Postcard.