Box 10

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Black-and-white image depicts winding machines. A cop is a yarn package, usually cylindrical, slightly tapered at one or both ends, and about 5 or 6 inches long. Carter's Series, No. 56. [Printed in Great Britain] [no earlier than 1902] 14 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Black-and-white image depicts two women filling yarn on wheels. Quilling is the last process in the long-chain system for filling yarns, in which the threads forming the chain are wound on filling bobbins, or quills, ready for the shuttle. A man bends over as if to kiss the woman on the left. Both women are set up outside a rather ramshackle building, but the location is unknown. ca. 1900-1910. 17.5 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Scope and Contents Color image depicting a skeiner and a twister inside the Barrington Woolen Mill. Printed on reverse of card: "Old Woolen Mill, Barrington, Nova Scotia. In the background the 'twister,' which combined single strands of wool into several ply yarns is shown, and in front of it the 'skeiner' which wound the proper lengths of twisted yarn into skeins. A part of the Nova Scotia Museum complex." Nova Scotia Museum Photograph. Published and Distributed by the Book Room Ltd., Halifax, N.S. ca....