Box 10

Scope and Contents Black-and-white image depicts two male textile workers in the background, standing behind two rows of warping machines in a warping room. Warping is the process of preparing a warp for weaving. The warping machines pull threads from the creels (behind the machines) and wind them onto the large beam in front of the machines. Several loose warp beams on the floor in the center of the room. The handwritten message on the reverse calls this a "winding room," but the more accurate term would be a...

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Black-and-white image depicts cotton slashers inside a mill, possibly in Lawrence, Mass. Slashing is the operation of sizing a warp on a slasher. The objects are to give each warp thread a coating of size mixture, to dry the threads, and to run the desired number of threads on a loom beam. ca. 1900. 18 x 10 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black-and-white image depicts a cotton warping machine. Warping is the process of preparing a warp for weaving. The warper pulls the threads from the creels behind it and winds them onto the warp beam in the front of the machine. Written on the reverse: [No. 9 Warper]. A. B. Hamor, Lawrence Views, ca. 1880. 17.75 x 10 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Scope and Contents Black-and-white image depicts warping machines in the Langley Cotton Mill in Langley, S.C. Warping is the process of preparing a warp for weaving. The warper pulls the threads from the creels (behind the machine) and winds it onto a warp beam (in front of the machine). A warp beam lies partially on the floor in the foreground. No. 9 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,...

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Black-and -white image deipcts a female textile worker drawing in warp. Drawing in is the operation of entering the warp ends from the warp beam through the eyes of the correct heddles on the respective harnesses. This view shows the threads being drawn from the creels into the warper. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black-and-white image depicts female textile workers preparing a silk warp for weaving by unwinding the silk threads from spools on creels (on the left); the threads are then wound onto a reel (on the right). These reels are called Ferris Wheels. Cheney Bros. was the only silk mill in South Manchester, Conn. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black-and-white image depicts a female textile worker beaming off silk. She is operating a machine that winds warp from a large reel (the Ferris Wheel seen in Item 31, in this folder) on to the loom beam. The operative is watching for threads that may have dropped or crossed. Cheney Bros. was the only silk mill in South Manchester, Conn. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black-and-white image depicts male textile workers drawing the warp. On the left of the view you see the hundreds of spools of silk. From these the men draw threads, one at a time, through reeds that look like fine combs, on top of the spool frame. The threads are then wound on the large reels, seen at the right of the view. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company, ca. 1900-1920. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Albumen print, ca. 1880. No. 17 in the series, Interior Views of the Washington Mills. Published by A. B. Hamor. Image shows warping machinery on the left and center. 17.5 x 10 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Color image shows women standing in a room with sloping ceilings that have pendant light fixtures and open beams. The women on the left are all facing away from the viewer and the women on the right are facing towards the viewer. Each stands next to a warp beam on which the silk thread is being wound for the looms. Brainerd & Armstrong was located in New London, Conn. Chilton Printing Co., Philadelphia, Pa. ca. 1907-1915. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.