Box 12

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Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image shows a female worker as she works at an intermediate roving frame (a machine that "doubles and drafts the slubber roving and delivers a smaller roving"). See Item 15, in this folder, for a virtually identical image. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image shows a male worker as he pushes a cart containing multiple slubbings, which are bulkier rovings ("continuous, soft, slightly twisted strand of fibers"). Behind him and his cart are rows of slubber roving frames and cans of cotton slivers. See Item 13, in this folder, for a closer view of this image; this worker is also visible in Item 11, in this folder. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image shows male worker as he works at a slubber roving frame, or slubber. A slubber is "[t]he first of the roving frames used in the cotton system of yarn manufacturing," and its purpose is "twist[ing] [slivers] into a greatly reduced size called roving." 18 x 9 cm. Copy B.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Scope and Contents Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918-1920. Black and white image shows two male workers. The man in the background appears to be guiding a drawn cotton sliver (cotton that has gone through a drawing frame) into a slubber roving frame, and behind him are cans of rolled up cotton slivers on standby. The worker in the foreground is pushing a cart full of slubbings, which is a term for bulkier rovings ("continuous, soft, slightly twisted strand of fibers . the product of a roving frame"). Much of the...

Scope and Contents Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image shows a male worker as he pushes a cart containing multiple slubbings, which are bulkier rovings ("continuous, soft, slightly twisted strand of fibers"). Behind him and his cart are rows of slubber roving frames and cans of cotton slivers. See Item 13, in this folder, for a virtually identical image; Item 17, in this folder, for a wider angle of this image; this worker is also visible in Item 11, in this folder. 18 x 9 cm....

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Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image shows a female cotton spinner piecing in a new bobbin of roving. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image of a female worker in the foreground at work at a ring spinning frame. View shows large room with many spinning frames behind her. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image shows a female spinner as she works at 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. This woman can also be seen in Items 6 and 10, in this folder. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image of a woman standing with a bin full of bobbins. She appears to be wearing a smock over her dress. In the background is a cotton spinning frame. This woman can also be seen in Items 7 and 9, in this folder. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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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 8, in this folder, for a virtually identical image. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.