Box 12

Scope and Contents Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image shows the carding room, where a row of carding machines (machines that separate fibers into "individual relationship[s]") are visible from the feed end (front view). The cotton laps ("continuous, . compressed, sheet of fibrous material . rolled into a cylindrical package") are being fed into the machines, where it is carded between the brush-like wire points. Two male workers are in the room as well: one is placing a new picker lap on a...

Scope and Contents Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image shows the carding room, where a row of carding machines (machines that separate fibers into "individual relationship[s]") are visible from the feed end (front view). The cotton laps ("continuous, . compressed, sheet of fibrous material . rolled into a cylindrical package") are being fed into the machines, where it is carded between the brush-like wire points. Two male workers are in the room as well: one is placing a new picker lap on a...

Scope and Contents Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image shows cotton from the cotton lap ("continuous, . compressed, sheet of fibrous material . rolled into a cylindrical package") being fed into a card (the machine that separates fibers into "individual relationship[s]"), where the cotton is carded between the brush-like wire points. The full lap on the top will most likely be swung down to be fed into the card once the lap on the bottom has finished. See Item 13 , in this folder, for a...

Scope and Contents Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image shows a row of carding machines (machines that separate fibers into "individual relationship[s]") from the feed end (front view). The cotton laps ("continuous, . compressed, sheet of fibrous material . rolled into a cylindrical package") are being fed into the machines, where it is carded between the brush-like wire points. The carding machines are not visible here, just a row of picker laps about to be fed into the carding machines. 18 x...

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Gelatin silver print. Black and white image shows two female workers at work in an aisle between two fine roving frames, or speeders. A speeder is "the third machine in a series of roving processes," which includes "reduc[ing] the size of the stock . [making the stock even], and insert[ing] twist in it." See Item 9, in this folder, for a very similar image, and Item 2, in this folder, for a better view of the woman in the foreground. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Gelatin silver print. Black and white image shows a female worker at work in an aisle between two fine roving frames, or speeders. A speeder is "the third machine in a series of roving processes," which includes "reduc[ing] the size of the stock . [making the stock even], and insert[ing] twist in it." See also Item 1 and 9, in this folder, for other views of this worker. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Gelatin silver print. Black and white image shows a close-up of the action that takes place within the middle space of a fine roving frame, or speeder. A speeder is "the third machine in a series of roving processes," which includes "reduc[ing] the size of the stock . [making the stock even], and insert[ing] twist in it." See Item 8, in this folder, for a broader view of this process. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Gelatin silver print. Black and white image shows two spools: one is bare and the other is wrapped in cotton thread. The bare spool is laying on its side; this is the implement on which the cotton thread is wrapped. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Scope and Contents Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image shows four pairs of spoolstotaling eight. Four of the spools, each of which is a different length, are wrapped with cotton fiber and mounted on a block; the matching spools stand below and are bare. The thickness of the cotton fiber corresponds to the length of the spool it is wrapped around; the cotton fiber is at its narrowest on the shortest spool, but at its thickest on the longest one. 18 x 9 cm. Format: Stereoptic...

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Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image shows two slubber spools: one is bare and the other is wrapped in cotton fibers. Slubbing is "the first of the roving frames used in the cotton system of yarn manufacturing. It takes sliver directly from the drawing frame and, without any doubling, drafts and twists it into a greatly reduced size called roving." 18 x 9 cm. Copy A.

Format: Stereoptic print.