Box 8

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Black-and-white image shows African American women handling cotton, one of whom carries a basket filled with cotton on her head. Cotton appears to be spread out on the floor to dry and a ladder enables more cotton to be spread along the roof. Two white men stand observing the work. Image is quite faded. Littleton, New Hampshire: Photographed and published by Kilburn Brothers. 18 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Scope and Contents Black-and-white image shows male worker feeding batches of material through a blower machine. Another man stands on the right. Printed on the reverse: "The various colours of dyed wool were blended by passing them time and time again through this large blower, in the Willey House." Number three in a series of eight by Armley Mills, Leeds Museum of Science and Industry. Printed by E. T. W. Dennis & Sons, Ltd., Scarborough. This postcard was likely printed in 1982 as the Leeds Museum of...

Scope and Contents Black-and-white image shows a workman standing by a series of picking machines, as cotton is guided through multiple stages of picking. The workman stands next to a series of picker laps; a picker lap is the product delivered by the picker and used to feed the card. It is a continuous, considerably compressed sheet of cotton (or other fiber) which is rolled under pressure into a cylindrical package. The message on the reverse indicates this is No. 2 of the cotton spinning process. "Devil" is...

Scope and Contents Black-and-white image shows workman moving a roll of partially processed cotton (known as a lap) to a scale for checking weight before going on to the next process. Other rolls are lined up to be weighed. Nearby wall calendar is dated April 1947. Printed on reverse: "North Carolina's textile industry. North Carolina is the country's leading textile producing state with over 400 modern mills employing 220,000 people--about 60 per cent of all the industrial workers in the state. Textile...

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Color image shows a wool picker, constructed of wood with rubber belts. Wool is being pulled through a series of metal teeth attached to wooden bars. Photo from Merrimack Valley Textile Museum, North Andover, Mass. Published by H. K. Barnett, Allison Park, Pa. ca. 1980-1984. 15 x 10.5 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Black-and-white image shows rows of cotton pickers, each with a series of rollers for the cotton to be fed through. Possibly the Granite Mills in Fall River, Mass. Stereoscopic Views by Joseph W. Warren, Fall River, Mass. ca. 1870s. 17.5 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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#48 of Manchester views, published by C. K. Burns, 1018 Elm Street, Manchester, New Hampshire [1880s?] Black and white image depicts the No. 5 picker room of Amoskeag Mills. A picker more thoroughly cleans the raw cotton and winds it into a continus lap for carding. A hopper that feed the cotton into the picker is in the foreground. 17.75 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black-and-white image shows rows of lappers in which the cotton from the feeders is cleaned and rolled into rolls of cotton batting known as laps. Several of these are doubled and drawn into one so as to get the weight of each yard as uniform as possible. Male workers stand by the lappers. North Bennington, Vt.: H.C. White Co. 18 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Scope and Contents Feeding wool into carding machine in a great woolen mill, Massachusetts. Black-and-white image shows male worker feeding raw wool into a hopper where it falls on an endless belt or apron where it must pass between the surface of a large horizontal cylinder (a few feet ahead of the workman) and smaller cylindrical rollers that surround the larger one. The carding machine is the first in the process to make the wool fibers lie parallel before spinning. Specific location of the mill is unknown....

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Black-and-white image shows row of power-driven carding machines. A male worker looks on in the left background. The purpose of carding is to make the fibers lie parallel. Location of mill is unknown. New York: Underwood & Underwood, ca. 1900-1920. 18 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.