Box 9

Scope and Contents Black and white image (somewhat tinted) shows a close-up view of a roving frame, which draws out and twists strands of cotton fibers. Printed on reverse: "New England's Textile Industry. Noted particularly for the quality of its products, New England, birthplace of the textile industry in the United States produces nearly 20 per cent of all American cotton goods plus millions of yards of materials from synthetic fibers. In each of the six states skilled craftsmen, working in modern mills on...

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Littleton, New Hampshire: Photographed and published by Kilburn Bros., ca. 1875-1885. Gelatin silver print. Black and white image depicts the card room (cotton) at Mechanics Mill in Fall River, but what is actually being shown, from back to front, are: cards, drawing (1st), drawing (2nd), and slubbers (coarse roving). Item 4, in this folder, is of the same room but taken from an entirely different angle. No employees visible. 17 x 8.25 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Littleton, New Hampshire: Photographed and published by Kilburn Bros., [1875-85?]. Gelatin silver print. Black and white image depicts the card room at Mechanics Mill in Fall River, but what is actually being shown are the drawing and roving processes, which follow the carding process. Item 3, in this folder, is of the same room but taken from an entirely different angle. No employees visible. 17 x 8.25 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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A. B. Hamor, ca. 1880. Black and white image shows rows of speeders, machinery which is one of the stages of the roving process. No workers visible. 17.75 x 10 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black and white image shows rows of roving frames with spindles of thread. Female workers are posed by the front row of frames. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company; copyrighted by Underwood and Underwood, ca. 1900-1920. 17.75 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black-and- white image shows male worker standing by a row of roving machines. He holds a spindle of thread in his right hand and a tool (?) of some sort in his left. Location of mill is unknown, but the plaque on the end of the row indicates the machinery was manufactured by Higgins & Sons of Manchester (Salford), England. ca. 1900. 17.5 x 10 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black and white image shows rows of speeders and slubbers with carding machines in the background. Speeder is a term applied to the third machine in a series of roving frames; a slubber is the first of the roving frames in the cotton system. Albany, N.Y.: Haines, ca. 1870. 17 x 8 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black and white image shows rows of speeders, a term used for the third machine in a series of roving frames. Roving frames reduce the size of the stock, even it, and insert a twist into it. Two female workers are seen operating the machinery. North Bennington, Vt.: H.C. White Co. 17.75 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black and white image shows rows of slubbers, which is another term for the part of the roving process used in the cotton system of yarn manufacturing. Slubbing is the intermediary step between drawing and roving. Here a male worker is feeding sliver from cans into the frame where it is elongated, twisted, and wound upon bobbins. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company. 17.75 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Color image shows two workmen, each standing by a row of slubbers. Slubbing is another term for part of the roving process in the cotton yarn system. Slubbers elongate the sliver and twist it into thread, which is then fed onto bobbins. Published by F.P. Charlton Co., Fall River, Mass. Printed in Germany. ca. 1907-1912. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.