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

Format: Postcard.

Scope and Contents Keystone View Company. Copying design on copper rolls for printing cotton cloth, Lawrence, Mass. Gelatin silver print, copyrighted by The Keystone View Company. Black-and-white image depicts a woman sitting at a table, painting the design onto an engraved zinc plate. Another woman, mostly unseen, stands to the left holding a large design. The mill in which this takes place is not identified but is most likely the Pacific Mills in Lawrence, Mass. Text on reverse: "Copying Design to be Printed...

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Black and white image of a printing room in a cotton mill in Orizaba, Mexico. A row of printing machines lines the wall to the left. A printing machine can print up to 14 colors. Cotton is by far the most common fabric to be printed. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company. 17.5 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Scope and Contents Printing color designs on silk cloth, 10 colors at once, in a great silk dyeing works, N.J. Black and white image of men printing color designs on silk cloth. Each roller that is seen in the foreground prints a different color and the pattern must match exactly. The man in the foreground is the expert printer, who will make adjustments as needed to make sure the pattern is printed perfectly. No mill is given, but this is possibly Paterson, N.J., which was a center of the silk industry in the...

Scope and Contents General View in Large Printing Room of Cotton Mills, Lawrence, Mass. Black and white image of a massive printing room in Lawrence, Mass. "The view shows the enormous extent of one of these printing rooms. You will observe the printed cloth coming over. A foreman is here seen inspecting a bit of print." Although not specifically identified, this is the Pacific Mills in Lawrence. The print works finished about 5,000,000 yards of cloth each week at this time. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View...

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Black-and-white image shows large printing cylinder used to print silk cloth. Up to twelve rollers may be used to print a design directly on the silk cloth, rather than have it woven into the cloth. Although not specificed, this is the Cheney Bros. plant in South Manchester, Conn. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company. 17.75 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black and white image of two Indian men in traditional dress, kneeling in front of a low table on which is spread a printed fabric, using hand blocks to stamp the fabric. Universal Postal Union, British India. ca. 1900-1905. 13. 5 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Black and white image of women working setting rug patterns in an unknown carpet mill. The tables at which the women work are loaded with spindles of yarn. Addressed to someone in Bloomsburg, Pa.; may possibly be the Magee Carpet Co. in Bloomsburg. Written on reverse: "Aunt Lydia worked here." ca. 1905-1907. 14 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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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 workers standing by the printing machines in a long row of machines. These machines printed patterns onto fabric. 17 x 8.25 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Scope and Contents Littleton, New Hampshire: Photographed and published by Kilburn Brothers, ca. 1880-1888. Gelatin silver print. Black and white image shows a female worker seated at an open table on which is a pantograph. A pantograph [from Wikipedia] "is a mechanical linkage connected in a manner based on parallelograms so that the movement of one pen, in tracing an image, produces identical movements in a second pen." This is most likely being used to design prints for fabrics. Another woman stands behind...