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Negative no.A1004. 1891-1895. Image depicts workers standing at the top of a scaffolded chimney that stands more than twice the height of three-story mill buildings to the left and right. The chimney extends through the roof of a one or two-story building in the center. 5 x 7 in. See Collection 6612 P, Box 1, Folder 5, Item 1004 for print of this negative.

Scope and Contents Negative no.A1005. 1891-1895. Image depicts a Northrop battery attached to a loom manufactured by Kilburn, Lincoln & Co. A battery is a mechanism found on single box automatic looms. The battery holds a plentiful supply of filling bobbins and transfers them, one at a time, to the shuttle as the need arises. A shuttle has been placed on the cloth being woven on the loom. The Draper Company manufactured textile machinery, primarily looms including the Northrop loom. Kilburn, Lincoln &...

Scope and Contents Negative no.A1006. 1891-1895. Image depicts a two-story wooden residence with an attic and two chimneys. The home has a front porch and upper- and lower-story bay windows at the left side. Laundry hangs on clothesline on the far left. Other homes are partially in view. A front lawn reaches to the curbstone on Adin Street, which is unpaved. George M. Burgess was employed by Draper and had at least two patents to his name for improvements in textile machinery. Original photograph by the Draper...

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Negative no.A1007. 1891-1895. Image depicts a man in suit and tie examining a loom equipped with a Northrup battery. Note the box of bobbins on the left; this may be a broader view of the battery seen in Negative 1005, in this box. The man is unknown but is probably someone in management. The loom was photographed in front of a sheet, probably in an unknown mill. 5 x 7 in. See Collection 6612 P, Box 1, Folder 5, Item 1007 for print of this negative.

Scope and Contents Negative no.A1008. 1891-1895. Image shows an aerial view of part of Hopedale, Massachusetts, taken from the (top of the) chimney of the Draper Company. The Bancroft house is at the bottom (presumably Joseph Bancroft's house--Bancroft was George Draper's brother-in-law); the Adin Ballou house is at the center left (Ballou was the founder of the Hopedale Community in 1842); and George Draper's house is at the center along Hopedale Street. Other residences, business buildings, and churches line...

Scope and Contents Negative no.A1009. 1891-1895. Image depicts the pattern shop at Draper Company. Here is where wooden patterns of gears and parts would be made before the parts would be manufactured in metal form. Six male workers are visible, standing around the shop. A saw is visible halfway down the aisle on the left. Several tables are laid out in a line down the room and carpenters' tools can be seen on the shelves in the right background. The Pattern Shop was located in a three-story brick building on...

Scope and Contents Negative no.A1011. 1891-1895. Image depicts an aerial view of part of Hopedale, Massachusetts, taken from (the top of) the chimney of the Draper Company. A [Draper Co.?] boarding house and the Hopedale Elastic Fabric Company are at center left on Dutcher St. at Freedom St., built in 1887. Other residential buildings are scattered around, although most of the area is open fields. It is unclear exactly which building is the Hopedale Elastic Fabric Company as all of the buildings appear to be...

Scope and Contents Negative no.A1012. 1891-1895. Image depicts an aerial view of part of Hopedale, Massachusetts, taken from (the top of) the chimney of the Draper Company. Image shows houses on Dutcher Street. The three houses in the center (in front of the grove of trees) appear to be worker housing, as the two single-families on the right and the two-family on the left appear identical in style. Other houses can be seen further in the distance. See also another view of houses on Dutcher Street in Negative...

Scope and Contents Negative no.A1013. 1891-1895. Image depicts an aerial view of part of Hopedale, Massachusetts, taken from (the top of) the chimney of the Draper Company. Image shows houses on Dutcher Street, but from a different angle than that seen in Negative 1012, in this box. A number of the houses have free-standing clotheslines in them with laundry. The dark-colored, three-and-a-half story house on the left may be a boardinghouse, as it has a fire escape on the side. These houses were probably...