Box 10

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Black-and-white image depicts two women warping yarn outside a small, one-story building. Both women wear large bonnets that shade their faces and long white aprons over their skirts. Warping is the process of preparing a warp for weaving. Probably taken in the area of the North Carolina/Tennessee border. Asheville, N.C.: Allanstand Cottage Industries, ca. 1910-1917. 13.75 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Black-and-white image depicts warping machines. Handwritten on back of card: [The Massacusetts Cotton mill, Lowell, Mass]. New York: H. Ropes & Co., ca. 1864-1883. 18 x 9 cm. Copy A.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black-and-white image depicts warping machines in the foreground and spinning machinery in the background. The image is identical to Item 14, in this folder, but without the Greek labeling found on that image. North Bennington, Vt.: H. C. White Co. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black-and-white image depicts female textile workers warping cotton. The cotton thread is unwound from the small spools in the creel (to the right), run through several bars in order get the proper tension, and ultimately rewound on to the big spool at the bottom of the machine, the warp beam. New York: Underwood & Underwood, ca. 1900- 1910. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black-and-whtie image depicts a female textile worker drawing cotton warp. This warping process is drawing the cotton thread into a ball, rather than a beam. Ball warping is a system of gathering together a large number of threads into a long, loose rope that is made up into a ball. Ball warping is usually done for convenience in dyeing, shipping, etc., after which the yarn is run onto a beam. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Scope and Contents Black- and-white image depicts female textile workers standing beside warping machines. Warping prepares the warp for weaving. The creels (behind the warping machines) feed the threads into the machine, and then onto the warp beam (in front of the machines). No. 10 in a series of images of the Langley Cotton Mill, which was formally known as the Langley Manufacturing Co. Photographed by J. A. Palmer, Aiken, S.C. Augusta, Ga.: E. H. Pughe, printer. 18 x 9 cm. See also Item 29, in this...

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Black-and-white image depicts cotton warping machinery. The warper pulls the threads from the creels on the left and winds it onto the beam just visible on the right. Mill location in Fall River is not specified. Littleton, New Hampshire: B. W. Kilburn. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black-and-white image depicts warping machines. Handwritten on back of Copy A: [The Massacusetts Cotton mill, Lowell, Mass]. New York: H. Ropes & Co., ca. 1864-1883. 18 x 9 cm. Copy B.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black-and-white image depicts cotton warping machines and spinning machines. The image is identifical to Item 8, in this folder, but on the reverse of this card is a Greek translation of the caption handwritten in ink, and a stamp of the name "Z. Oikonomou" and the words "en Peiraiei." It seems that at one point the card was available in the Greek market, distributed (?) by Z. Oikonomou in Peraios. North Bennington, Vt.: H. C. White Co. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Littleton, New Hampshire: Photographed and published by B. W. Kilburn. Gelatin silver print. Black and white image actually shows warpers in action, not spooling. 17.5 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.