Box 10

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Black-and-white image depicts a warp tying machine used in the process of tying-in, during which the machine unites the threads of a new warp and the ends remaining from a former warp, in order to avoid hand drawing-in. The machine selects an end of the old warp and knots it to the corresponding end in the new warp, then trims the knot. The Barber-Colman Company was based in Rockford, Ill. ca. 1910-1918. 8.75 x 13.75 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Gelatin silver print. Black and white image of an interior room in the Pacific Mills in Lawrence, Mass., showing the drawing-in process. 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, which is what the woman seated in the foreground is doing. Both male and female laborers are visible. ca. 1900-1920. 17.5 x 8.5 cm. Copy A.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Gelatin silver print. Black and white image of an interior room in the Pacific Mills in Lawrence, Mass., showing the drawing-in process. 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, which is what the woman seated in the foreground is doing. Both male and female laborers are visible. ca. 1900-1920. 17.5 x 8.5 cm. Copy B.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Color image of rows of warpers and warp beams in an unidentified cotton mill. A beam warper is a machine placed in front of a V-shaped creel which contains the packages of yarn. The warper winds numerous threads in parallel order onto a beam. Published by F.P. Charlton Co., Fall River, Mass. Made in Germany. Postmarked Nov. 5, 1909 in Fall River. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Color image of male employees posing next to slasher equipment in an unidentified mill. Slashing is the operation of sizing a warp on a slasher. The object is 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 (seen in the front of each slasher). 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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Photograph by Lewis W. Hine, 1874-1940. Photo-study for the National Research Project of the Works Progress Administration. Brooklyn, N.Y.: The Brooklyn Museum, ca. 1977. Black and white image shows woman standing in front of a cotton warper creel tender (Barber-Colman cheeses). 14.25 x 10.5 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Tolson Memorial Museum, Huddersfield, England. [no later than 1962] Black and white image shows warping-woof and creel (warping frame). 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Museo didattico della Seta Como. Foto Enzo Pifferi stampa Tip Ed. Cesare Nani.

Format: Postcard.

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Black-and-white image depicts a woman working at a loom. Down below is a roll of cloth already woven. Most Norwegian families raise their own sheep and spin their own wool. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Scope and Contents Black-and-white image depicts Phebe Pinkham Folger weaving tape in her home; tape is a narrow strip of stout cotton, linen, or other textile material used as a flat string for tying purposes, for binding, etc. Caption: "Tape Weaving. The strands of time woven with the threads of life. A tape binding Nantucket's past and present. Capt. John Pitman, age 93, and Phebe Pinkham Folger, age 92, for 68 years his beloved wife." Published by M. W. Boyer, Nantucket, Mass. Made in Germany. Photo only...