Box 11
Container
Contains 10 Results:
Contact prints from glass plate negatives, Series B:2027-2063: box no. 112-113
File — Box: 11, Folder: 1
Dates:
1882-1920
Contact prints from glass plate negatives, Series B:2064-2099: box no. 114-115
File — Box: 11, Folder: 2
Dates:
1882-1920
Contact prints from glass plate negatives, Series B:2100-2133: box no. 116-117
File — Box: 11, Folder: 3
Dates:
1882-1920
Contact prints from glass plate negatives, Series B:2134-2167: box no. 118-119
File — Box: 11, Folder: 4
Dates:
1882-1920
Contact prints from glass plate negatives, Series B:2168-2201: box no. 120-121
File — Box: 11, Folder: 5
Dates:
1882-1920
Contact prints from glass plate negatives, Series B:2202-2233: box no. 122-123
File — Box: 11, Folder: 6
Dates:
1882-1920
Item 2202: Whitin-Owen feeler motion, Draper Corporation
File — Box: 11, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.B2202. 1918-1919. Image depicts a close-up view of the Whitin-Owen feeler motion attached to a (presumably) Draper Corporation loom. A feeler is a device on a loom designed to transfer a full bobbin to the shuttle before the old one is entirely emptied. The feeler projects into the shuttle from the side and feels the yarn on the bobbin. When the bobbin is approaching emptiness, the feeler actuates the transfer motion and replaces the bobbin. The...
Dates:
1882-1920
Item 2204: James Northrup, inventor of the Northrup Loom, 1918
File — Box: 11, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.B2204. December 10, 1918. Image depicts a portrait of James Northrup (1856-1940), inventor of the Northrup Loom. He is pictured sporting a moustache and is dressed in suit and tie. The Draper Corporation produced the Northrup Loom, named for its inventor, who had emigrated from Keighley, Yorkshire, England in 1881. Northrup invented the first fully automatic loom, its basic feature being the filling-changing battery. Northrup looms were first...
Dates:
1918
Item 2227: Draper Model D Loom, Atlantic Mill, 1919
File — Box: 11, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.B2227. July 11, 1919. Photograph of a photograph. Image depicts a Draper Company (or Draper Corporation) Model D loom, which was a heavy standard loom. Loom is displayed against a white background; the original photo may have been done for advertising purposes. The "Atlantic Mill" referred to on the reverse of the print is probably the Atlantic Cotton Mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts, which were cotton mills. The Atlantic Mills were idle by 1913...
Dates:
1919
Item 2228: Draper Model R Loom, Mount Vernon-Woodberry, 1919
File — Box: 11, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.B2228. April 1, 1919. Photograph of a photograph. Image depicts a Draper Corporation Model R loom, which is displayed against a white background; the original photo may have been done for advertising purposes. By 1919, Mount Vernon-Woodberry Mills Inc. operated a number of mills in Baltimore, Md., plus mills in some southern states; among other products some mills produced cotton duck. This loom may be been used in or at least sold to the Mount...
Dates:
1919