Train load of Draper Company looms, 1911

Negative no.B988. Train load of Draper Company looms, Hopedale, Massachusetts Gelatin silver print, [1974], from a glass plate negative, September 30, 1911. Image depicts a railroad train at a depot, presumably in Hopedale, Massachusetts The train engine pulls a coal car, and a long series of closed boxcars that carried Draper Company looms. Three men in work clothes pose on top of the first boxcar; two more men are barely visible in the background, posing on the last boxcar. The Draper Company manufactured textile machinery, primarily looms. See also Negative 987, in this box. 8 x 10 in. See Collection 6612 P, Box 15, Folder 4, Item 988 for print of this negative.