Box 12
Contains 155 Results:
Item 4: Cloth finishing: stacking rolls of gray cloth, 1916
Gelatin silver print. Black and white image shows a male worker adding a roll of gray cloth to a stack of rolls in a bin. More rolls are on the floor nearby. Gray cloth is cloth that has come off the loom and has received no finishing or dyeing treatment. 18 x 9 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 5: Cloth finishing: rolls of printed cloth, 1916
Gelatin silver print. Black and white image shows male laborer working with one of a stack of rolls of printed cloth. More cloth is in the background, presumably ready for the rolling process. See Item 9, in this folder, for a virtually identical image. 18 x 9 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 6: Pacific Mills, Lawrence, Mass. Steaming printed cloth
Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image shows a male worker guiding cloth through a steaming machine. The cloth approaches the machine via a series of overhead rollers. Steaming will help fix the colors on the cloth. Stacks of gray cloth are on the floor nearby. 18 x 9 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 7: Printed cloth being washed
Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image shows a row of machines for the process of washing cloth. Stacks of cloth are nearby. 18 x 9 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 8: Washing cloth
Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image shows cloth being fed through overhead rollers to washing equipment where male workers guide the cloth into the machines. 18 x 9 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 9: Cloth finishing - rolls of printed cloth
Gelatin silver print, [ca 1918]. Black and white image shows male laborer working with one of a stack of rolls of printed cloth. More cloth is in the background, presumably ready for the rolling process. See Item 5, in this folder, for a virtually identical image. 18 x 9 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 1: Variation in length of staple in American cotton
Gelatin silver print. ca. 1916. Black and white image shows six samples of cotton arranged in two columns. The samples appear to be slightly stretched horizontally. These samples range from 7/8" to 1 3/8". See Item 2, in this folder, for a virtually identical image. 18 x 9 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 2: Variation in length of staple in American cotton
Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image shows six samples of cotton arranged in two columns. The samples appear to be slightly stretched horizontally. These samples range from 7/8" to 1 3/8". See Item 1, in this folder, for a virtually identical image. These samples range from 7/8" to 1 3/8". 18 x 9 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 3: Cotton boll
Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image shows a cotton boll that has a small amount of stem still attached. 18 x 9 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 4: Cotton bolls as picked from the cotton plant
Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image shows six cotton bolls that are still attached to bits of stem. 18 x 9 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.