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Box 11

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Contains 129 Results:

Item 7: Serie des industries bretonnes [Brittany industries series].

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents La Guipure d'Irlande a Plouhinec (Finistere) [Irish lace in the Finistere Parish?]. Une piece d'exposition [an exposition room]. Le Rochet de Monseigneur l'Eveque de Quimper [the surplice of the Lord Bishop of Quimper]. Black and white image of a young woman in Breton costume, working on (crocheting?) a lace surplice. Finistere is a section in far northwest Brittany and where Breton survives most strongly as a spoken language today. Quimper is the capital. [Quimper, France, ca. 1930] 9 x 14...
Dates: 1842-2003

Item 8: Weaving cotton and silk insulating coverings on electric wire, 1912

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Black and white image of male employee working at braiding machinery. Location unknown. New York: Underwood & Underwood. 17.5 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Dates: 1912

Item 1: Finishing processes for silk cloth, breaking, folding and pressing in a Paterson Silk Mill.

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Black and white image of men completing the finishing processes for silk cloth. The man in the foreground is operating a machine that is "breaking" the silk into patterns, in this case deep spiral flutings. A number of men are in the background, some of them folding silks. No specific mill is given, but Paterson, N.J., was a center of the silk industry in the U.S. New York: Underwood & Underwood, ca. 1900-1920. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Dates: 1842-2003

Item 1: Bleachery, Willimantic Linen Co.'s Thread Works, Willimantic Conn.

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Hartford, Conn.: Prescott & White, Photographers, ca. 1880s. Gelatin silver print. Black and white image shows the bleachery in the Willimantic Linen Co. Fabric is piled up on the right between large vats; what may be yarn or thread is piled up on the left. A male employee in the background stirs one of the vats; two other men are on the right. 17.25 x 8.25 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Dates: 1842-2003