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Scope and Contents Negative no.B870. February 15, 1911. Image depicts an unidentified young man on the far right demonstrating how mill operatives would suck the thread through the eye of a shuttle by using a shuttle and a skeleton. The man holds a shuttle to the mouth of the skeleton. Mill operatives would draw the thread through their mouths to help smooth it and make it easier to draw through the eye of the shuttle. However, sucking on cotton thread could eventually cause lung problems and did so in many...

Scope and Contents Negative no.B871. February 15, 1911. Image depicts an unidentified man on the far right demonstrating how mill operatives would suck the thread through the eye of a shuttle by using a shuttle and a skeleton. The man holds the shuttle to the skeleton's mouth. Mill operatives would draw the thread through their mouths to help smooth it and make it easier to draw through the eye of the shuttle. However, sucking on cotton thread could eventually cause lung problems and did so in many mill...

Scope and Contents Negative no.B872. February 15, 1911. Image depicts an unidentified man demonstrating how mill operatives would suck the thread through the eye of a shuttle by using a shuttle and a skeleton. The hand of the skeleton (the skeleton's arm is supported by the hand of the man) holds the shuttle to its mouth (the shuttle is supported by the man's other hand). Mill operatives would draw the thread through their mouths to help smooth it and make it easier to draw through the eye of the shuttle....

Scope and Contents Negative no.B873. February 15, 1911. Image depicts an unidentified man demonstrating how mill operatives would suck the thread through the eye of a shuttle by using a shuttle and a skeleton. The hand of the skeleton (the skeleton's arm is supported by the hand of the man) holds the shuttle to its mouth (the shuttle is supported by the man's other hand). Mill operatives would draw the thread through their mouths to help smooth it and make it easier to draw through the eye of the shuttle....

Scope and Contents Negative no.B874. February 15, 1911. Image depicts an unidentified young man demonstrating how mill operatives would suck the thread through the eye of a shuttle by using a shuttle and a skeleton. The man holds a shuttle to the mouth of the skeleton. Mill operatives would draw the thread through their mouths to help smooth it and make it easier to draw through the eye of the shuttle. However, sucking on cotton thread could eventually cause lung problems and did so in many mill operatives....