Box 12
Contains 155 Results:
Item 6: Cotton spinner
Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image shows a female spinner as she reaches atop a cotton ring spinning frame. She wears a cap on her head and what appears to be a striped dress, but may be a duster of some sort. See Item 10, in this folder, for a virtually identical image. This woman can also be seen in Item 3, in this folder,. 18 x 9 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 7: Cotton spinning
Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image of a woman handling a bobbin from a bin full of bobbins. She appears to be wearing a smock over her dress. In the background are cotton spinning frames. This woman can also be seen in Items 4 and 9, in this folder, (which is virtually an identical image). 18 x 9 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 8: Cotton spinning "doffer" girl
Pacific Mills, Lawrence, Mass.: Cotton spinning "doffer" girl. Black and white image of young girl with a bin full of bobbins. As a "doffer," she is responsible for removing "sets of full bobbins from a machine and start[ing] a new set of empty packages." Cotton spinning frames are visible in the background. See Item 5, in this folder, for a virtually identical image. 18 x 9 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 9: [spinning frame].
Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image of a woman handling a bobbin from a bin full of bobbins. She appears to be wearing a smock over her dress. In the background are cotton spinning frames. This woman can also be seen in Items 4 and 7, in this folder, (virtually identical to this image). 18 x 9 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 10: Cotton spinner
Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image shows a female spinner as she reaches atop a cotton ring spinning frame. She wears a cap on her head and what appears to be a striped dress, but may be a duster of some sort. See Item 6, in this folder, for a virtually identical image. This woman can also be seen in Item 3, in this folder. 18 x 9 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 11: Cotton spinners examining yarn [doffer girls with bobbins]
Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image shows two "doffer" girls examining yarn on a bobbin together. As "doffers," they are responsible for removing sets of full bobbins from a machine and starting a new set of empty packages. See Item 12, in this folder, for a virtually identical image. These two girls can also be seen in Item 13, in this folder. 18 x 9 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 12: Cotton spinners examining yarn [doffer girls with bobbins]
Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image shows two "doffer" girls examining yarn on a bobbin together. As "doffers," they are responsible for removing sets of full bobbins from a machine and starting a new set of empty packages. See Item 11, in this folder, for a virtually identical image. These two girls can also be seen in Item 13, in this folder. 18 x 9 cm
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 13: Doffer girls with bobbins
Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image shows two "doffer" girls examining yarn on a bobbin together. As "doffers," they are responsible for removing sets of full bobbins from a machine and starting a new set of empty packages. These two girls can also be seen in Items 11 and 12, in this folder. 18 x 9 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 14: No. 617. Spinning Room, Mechanic's Mill, Fall River, Mass.
Photographed and Published by Kilburn Brothers, Littleton, New Hampshire ca. 1900. View of long expanse of machinery. 17.75 x 8.75 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 1: Top view of cotton drawing frame
Gelatin silver print. ca. 1916. Black and white image shows the "[t]op view of [a] cotton drawing frame." A drawing frame is the "machine used . to improve the uniformity of the sliver and to arrange the fibers more nearly in parallel order." Six cotton slivers can be seen as they make their way from their individual coils (right-side of image), through the drawing frame, and into a hole where the six strands are merged into one. 18 x 9 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.