Box 15

Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.B861. February 11, 1911. Image depicts an unidentified male operative demonstrating how mill operatives would suck the thread through the eye of a shuttle. The man holds the shuttle to his mouth; he would use his right hand to draw the thread out. Mill operatives would draw the thread through their mouths to help smooth it and make it easier to draw through the eye of the shuttle. However, sucking on cotton thread could eventually cause lung...

Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.B862. February 11, 1911. Image depicts an unidentified male operative demonstrating how mill operatives would suck the thread through the eye of a shuttle. The man holds the shuttle to his mouth and draws the thread out; mill operatives would draw the thread through their mouths to help smooth it and make it easier to draw through the eye of the shuttle. However, sucking on cotton thread could eventually cause lung problems and did so in many mill...

Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.B863. February 11, 1911. Image depicts an unidentified male operative demonstrating how mill operatives would suck the thread through the eye of a shuttle. The man holds the shuttle to his mouth and draws the thread out; mill operatives would draw the thread through their mouths to help smooth it and make it easier to draw through the eye of the shuttle. However, sucking on cotton thread could eventually cause lung problems and did so in many mill...

Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.B870. February 15, 1911. Image depicts an unidentified young man on the far right demonstrating how mill operatives would suck the thread through the eye of a shuttle by using a shuttle and a skeleton. The man holds a shuttle to the mouth of the skeleton. Mill operatives would draw the thread through their mouths to help smooth it and make it easier to draw through the eye of the shuttle. However, sucking on cotton thread could eventually cause...

Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.B871. February 15, 1911. Image depicts an unidentified man on the far right demonstrating how mill operatives would suck the thread through the eye of a shuttle by using a shuttle and a skeleton. The man holds the shuttle to the skeleton's mouth. Mill operatives would draw the thread through their mouths to help smooth it and make it easier to draw through the eye of the shuttle. However, sucking on cotton thread could eventually cause lung...

Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.B872. February 15, 1911. Image depicts an unidentified man demonstrating how mill operatives would suck the thread through the eye of a shuttle by using a shuttle and a skeleton. The hand of the skeleton (the skeleton's arm is supported by the hand of the man) holds the shuttle to its mouth (the shuttle is supported by the man's other hand). Mill operatives would draw the thread through their mouths to help smooth it and make it easier to draw...

Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.B873. February 15, 1911. Image depicts an unidentified man demonstrating how mill operatives would suck the thread through the eye of a shuttle by using a shuttle and a skeleton. The hand of the skeleton (the skeleton's arm is supported by the hand of the man) holds the shuttle to its mouth (the shuttle is supported by the man's other hand). Mill operatives would draw the thread through their mouths to help smooth it and make it easier to draw...

Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.B874. February 15, 1911. Image depicts an unidentified young man demonstrating how mill operatives would suck the thread through the eye of a shuttle by using a shuttle and a skeleton. The man holds a shuttle to the mouth of the skeleton. Mill operatives would draw the thread through their mouths to help smooth it and make it easier to draw through the eye of the shuttle. However, sucking on cotton thread could eventually cause lung problems and...

Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.B883. April 3, 1911. Image depicts a view of the scrap iron pile outside one of the Draper Company buildings. Two workmen stand in front of the pile, which gives the viewer a sense of the size of it (at least three stories high). See also Item 896 through Item 898, in this folder, which show the pile a month later, and Box 15, Folder 3, Item 934, Item 935, and Item 937 which show the pile two months later. The Draper Company manufactured textile...

Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.B896. May 12, 1911. Image depicts a view of the scrap iron pile outside one of the Draper Company buildings. One man stands in front of the pile, which gives the viewer a sense of the size of it (at least three stories high); two others can be glimpsed at the far right end of the pile. See also Item 883, in this folder, which shows the pile a month earlier. See Item 897 and Item 898, in this folder, for other views of this man in front of the...