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Box 10

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Contains 237 Results:

Item 8: Spooling

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Black-and-white image depicts a female textile worker standing in front of a spooling machine. Other women sit and stand in the background. Location is unknown. ca. 1913-1922. 13.5 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Dates: 1842-2003

Item 9: Reeling room, factory of the famous Irish linen, Belfast, Ireland

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Black-and-white image depicts skeins of yarn sitting by winding machines. View appears to be taken from above, possibly from a balcony of some sort. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company, ca. 1900-1920. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Dates: 1842-2003

Item 10: Castle Hedingham Handloom Weavers: Silk Winding

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Black-and-white image depicts a woman working at a silk winding machine. In silk winding, each skein is put onto a swift and wound onto bobbins for warping. Castle Hedingham is located near Halstead, Essex, England. ca. 1970s. 10.25 x 15.25 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Dates: 1842-2003

Item 11: "Finishing" silk skeins after dyeing and making into bales for weavers, Paterson, N.J.

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Black-and- white image depicts male textile workers straightening fibers tangled from the dyeing process, twisting them into skeins, and baling them for transport to weavers. New York: Underwood & Underwood, ca. 1910. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Dates: 1842-2003

Item 12: Spooling yarn, Dallas Cotton Mills, Texas, 1905

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Black- and-white image depicts female textile workers spooling yarn. In spooling, the yarn is taken from the spinning-frame bobbins and wound regularly on spools, which hold the yarn from ten or more bobbins. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Dates: 1905

Item 13: No. 1 Mill Spooling Room, Cocheco Manufacturing Co., Dover, New Hampshire

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

ca. 1880s. Black and white image shows rows of spooling machinery. No workiers visible. Spooling is the operation of winding yarn onto a spool and falls between spinning and weaving. 17.75 x 10 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Dates: 1842-2003

Item 14: Spool Room, Mill Interior, Lowell, Mass.

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

ca. 1890 From The "Best" Series, Published by Miller and Best, 67 High Street, Boston, Mass. Spooling is the operation of winding yarn on a spool. 17.5 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Dates: 1842-2003

Item 15: Lower Spool Room, Bates Mills, Lewiston, Me.

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

No. 12 in the series "Interior Views of Lewiston Mills." Lewiston, Me.: Published by Rideout & McFadden, ca. 1880s. Black and white image shows crates of spools in the lower spool room of the Bates Manufacturing Company. 17.5 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Dates: 1842-2003

Item 16: Spooling Brainerd & Armstrong's Sewing Silks

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Color image shows rows of women sitting two per table. They have small machines on the table in front of them. Large spools of thread and boxes are stacked next to them. Most of the tables also have a brass oil can sitting on them. There are pendant light fixtures hanging from the ceilings, which have open beams and pipes. Brainerd & Armstrong was located in New London, Conn. Chilton Printing Co., Philadelphia, Pa. ca. 1907-1915. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Dates: 1842-2003

Item 17: Spoolers in a Fall River Cotton Mill [Fall River, Mass.]

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Color image of employees, primarily female, posing near spoolers in an unidentified mill. Spooling is the operation of winding yarn onto a spool. Published by F.P. Charlton Co., Fall River, Mass. Made in Germany. ca. 1907-1909. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Dates: 1842-2003