Box 11

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Black and white image of vats for dyeing cloth in the piece- dyeing room of the Cheney Bros. factory. The vats are filled with dyes and the cloth is run through them over the reel in the center. The cloth is then compared with the sample and if the color is not right, colors are added to the dye until the right shade is reached. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black and white image of bleaching vats for cloth in the piece. The vat is filled with the bleaching liquor and the cloth run back and forth through it over the reel in the center. One male employee is visible in the right background. Although not specified, this is the Cheney Bros. plant in South Manchester, Conn. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Scope and Contents Dye Becks (both sides). Black-and-white image of unknown dyehouse, showing hydro-extrators in the left center. A hydro-extractor is a machine for expeling the loose water from raw stock, yarn, cloth, etc., by means of centrifugal force. The wet material is loaded in a perforated cage or basket that can be rapidly rotated, thus slinging out the water. Dye becks are machines for dyeing piece goods. Four male laborers stand in the background. Handwritten message on reverse of card is dated Dec....

Scope and Contents Black and white image of men working in a plant of the National Silk & Dyeing Company in Paterson, N.J. Stripping is the boiling off of the superfluous gums and oils that would interfere with the dyeing. This process is going on in the first tier of tubs on the right. After stripping and weighting, the silk is returned to this room to be dyed in the tanks beyond the tub in the foreground. The skeins are suspended from wooden rods across the tubs full of hot dye-liquor. The skeins are...

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Musee de la View Wallonne. Liege, Belgium.

Format: Postcard.

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Tolson Memorial Museum, Huddersfield, England. [no later than 1962] Black and white image shows a raising frame, used to raise the nap on fabric. 9 x 14 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Tolson Memorial Museum, Huddersfield, England. [no later than 1962] Black and white image shows a set of hand cropping shears, in this case used to shear the nap of fabric, laid on a board. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Tolson Memorial Museum, Huddersfield, England. [no later than 1962] Black and white image shows a Lewis cross-cut machine used for shearing the nap of fabric. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Tolson Memorial Museum, Huddersfield, England. [no later than 1962] Black and white image shows a shearing machine used for shearing the nap of fabric. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Scope and Contents Black and white image of a man working at a shearing machine. A shearing machine shears cloth by mechanically trimming the projecting fibers from the surface of a cloth. The cutting action is provided by means of a roller on which are spirally mounted a number of steel blades. This rotates in close contact with a fixed ledger blade, the cloth passing between the two. The location of this mill is unknown. New York: Underwood & Underwood, ca. 1900-1920. 18 x 9 cm. Format:...