Box 6
Contains 122 Results:
Item 2: Wissahickon Lane Woolen Mills, Wissahickon, Pa.
n.d. No. 1084 in the series, Wissahickon Creek Scenery, Penn'a. C. W. Woodward, Rochester, N.Y. 17.5 x 8.5 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 1: Log Cabin Studies, "Silk Weaving", 1876
International Exhibition, 1876, Philadelphia, Pa. Philadelphia, Pa.: Centennial Photographic Co. Edward L. Wilson, W. Irving Adams, Proprietors, Registered 1876. View of woman in colonial costume & setting weaving with narrow fabric loom in her lap. 17.8 x 10.9 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 2: Woolen Mill, Philadelphia, Pa.
Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company, n.d. Part of the "Geography Unit No. 15" Image is taken at ground level looking across shrubs and a field and shows 3 and 4 story mill buildings with water towers and smokestacks. Back of image has 3 paragraphs of text regarding this mill and textile mills in general. 17.8 x 8.7 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 3: Brazilian Cotton Exhibit, Agricultural Hall, 1876
International Exhibition, 1876, Philadelphia, Pa. Philadelphia, Pa.: Centennial Photographic Co., 1876. Image was taken inside a building with pointed arches. Display has bales of cotton on the wooden floor. Display also has two tall frames covered with wads of cotton, 5 flags and two circular badges. Badge on left says Rio De Janeiro. Right hand image has title at bottom in white letters. 17.8 x 10.8 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 1: Administration Building, Textile Machine Works, Reading, Pa.
[Photographer]: Professor A[lfred] Krauth, Sommerville [sic], Mass. Made in Germany. Black and white image is looking down road at 3-story building on opposite side of street. Building has two square 4-story towers on corners of building and water tower in background. Street is lined with bare trees and there are trucks and cars on the street and two men are standing on the street corner. 11.2 x 8.5 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 3: Construction Department, Textile Machine Works, Reading, Pa.
[Photographer]: Professor A[fred] Krauth, Sommerville [sic], Mass. Made in Germany. Black and white image shows men working at drafting tables. Two men are in suits. One man is wearing a white lab-type coat. ca. 1924. 11.3 x 8.5 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 5: Drafting and Engineering Department, Textile Machine Works, Reading, Pa.
Sommerville [sic], Mass. [Photographer]: Professor A[lfred] Krauth. Made in Germany. Black and white image shows men in 3-piece suits doing paperwork at their desks. Some men in background working in shirt sleeves. One man is talking on telephone. ca. 1924. 11.3 x 8.4 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 7: Drawing sliver, Dallas Cotton Mills, Dallas, Tex., 1905
Black- and-white image depicts rows of equipment with operators in the background. In the foreground is a close-up view of a young man drawing the sliver lengthwise through the machine to bring the fibres nearly parallel and carry on the attentuation by which the strand ultimately becomes a thread. This process takes place after the carding and before the slubbing steps. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company. 18 x 9 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 8: Machine Shop - Building No. 27 with Plant Fire Apparatus, Textile Machine Works, Reading, Pa.
Sommerville [sic], Mass. [Photographer]: Professor A[lfred] Krauth. Made in Germany. Black and white image shows exterior of 5-story building. Image is taken from across the tree-lined street. There is a fire truck parked on the near side of the street with 3 men in it. There is a small child standing on the sidewalk looking up at the fire truck. There are additional cars parked on the far side of the street. ca. 1924. 11.3 x 8.5 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 9: Main Office, Textile Machine Works, Reading, Pa.
Sommerville [sic], Mass. [Photographer]: Professor A[lfred] Krauth. Made in Germany. Black and white image shows men in 3-piece suits, some in shirt sleeves, sitting at desks working. Some have typewriters or adding machines on their desks. ca. 1924. 11.2 x 8.4 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.