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Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate 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....

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Printed in 1974 from glass plate 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 Item 1005, in this folder. The man is unknown but is probably someone in management. The loom was photographed in front of a sheet, probably in an unknown mill. 20.25 x 25 cm.

Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate 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,...

Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate 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...

Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate 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...

Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate 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...

Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate 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 Item 1012, in this folder. 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....

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Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.A1016. 1891-1895. Image depicts a view of the No. 3 automatic screw machine. Photographed in front of a white sheet, possibly in an unknown textile mill. See Item 1017, in this folder, for a view of this machine showing the toothed wheel. Draper Company manufactured textile machinery, primarily looms, and apparently manufactured its own machine screws for use in its machinery. 25 x 20.5 cm.

Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.A1017. 1891-1895. Image depicts a No. 3 automatic screw machine showing a large toothed wheel in front; the toothed wheel is what would cut the grooves in the screws. Photographed in front of a white sheet, possibly in an unknown textile mill. See Item 1016, in this folder, for a view of the other side of this machine. Draper Company manufactured textile machinery, primarily looms, and apparently manufactured its own machine screws for use in its...

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Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.A1018. 1891-1895. Image depicts a view from presumably the roof of the Draper Company's machine screw shop, showing single- and multi-family homes lining town streets near the company. Most of these residences were probably for Draper Company employees. The foreground view looks down onto a roof with three skylights and a number of vent pipes, probably part of the machine screw shop. Original photograph by the Draper Company. 25 x 20.5 cm.