Box 11

Scope and Contents Black and white image shows men working in a room filled with shearing machines. 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. Carter's Series No. 58. Printed in Britain. [no earlier than 1902] 14...

Scope and Contents Black-and-white image depicts a late 18th-century cropping shop, where the surface of fabric is sheared by hand. Shearing is a finishing operation where the projecting fibers from the surface of a cloth are cut or trimmed. Here a man uses an implement to shear the cloth. Note the large pair of shears on the wall on the left. [Published by] Textile Department, Bankfield Museum, Halifax [Yorkshire, England]. Formerly a private residence, Bankfield was sold in 1887 and was transformed into a...

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Black and white image shows male workers operating calender machine in unknown textile mill. Note the large roll of fabric on the left. New York: Underwood & Underwood, ca. 1900-1920. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black and white image shows calendering machine in operation in an unknown textile mill. Carter's Series No. 59. Printed in Britain. [no earlier than 1902] 13.75 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Scope and Contents Black and white image shows a boy operating a cropping machine in an unknown Canadian textile mill. A cropping machine (the cropper) is one of three machines used in the overall calendering (dressing) process; the other two being the mangler and the calender. While the mangler and the calender are massive in size, the cropper is relatively small and easily operated by a young boy. A cropper is used to bring forth a fabric's smooth and lustrous appearance. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View...

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Black and white image of a man, in an unkown Irish linen factory, working at a calendering machine. The male operative wears a long white apron over his clothes. Calendering is one of the finishing processes for fabric. Note the piles of fabric in the left foreground. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company, ca. 1900-1920. 17.75 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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In the folding and making up room, rolls of finished silk, Paterson Silk Works [Paterson, N.J.]. Black and white image of many workersmostly femalepreparing silk goods for the market by folding and boxing them. "Paterson Silk Works" may refer to the Paterson Broad Silk Works, which was out of business by 1905, or it may refer to the silk mills in Paterson in general. New York: Underwood & Underwood, ca. 1900-1910. 17.75 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Scope and Contents Black-and-white image shows a horse attached to a cloth-carrying cart, as a man stands by the horse's head. Behind the horse and man is a brick mill building. Printed on reverse: "Having been fulled and if necessary piece dyed, at the company's Cliffe Mills, Pudsey, the cloth was loaded onto horse-drawn wagons to be transported to their Whitehall Mills, Leeds, for finishing." Number eight in a series of eight by Armley Mills, Leeds Museum of Science and Industry. Printed by E.T.W. Dennis...

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Littleton, New Hampshire: Photographed and published by Kilburn Bros., ca. 1875-1885. Gelatin silver print. Black and white image depicts male and female workers in the folding room of the American Print Works. Finished material was folded during this process. 17 x 8.25 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Scope and Contents Black and white image shows a large crowd of people at an outdoor cloth market. The "fair," which contains a variety of goods and hosts "hundreds of thousands of visitors and traders" from all over Russia, is actually a market-place that has operated during the summer "[f]or at least six centuries." The building in the background may be a permanent structure that only sees use during the market season; the location is practically deserted outside of the summer. Events such as World War I and...