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Box 15

 Container

Contains 31 Results:

Item 861: Sucking thread through the shuttle eye, Draper Company, 1911

 File — Box: 15, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.B861. February 11, 1911. Image depicts an unidentified male operative demonstrating how mill operatives would suck the thread through the eye of a shuttle. The man holds the shuttle to his mouth; he would use his right hand to draw the thread out. 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...
Dates: 1911

Item 862: Sucking thread through the shuttle eye, Draper Company, 1911

 File — Box: 15, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.B862. February 11, 1911. Image depicts an unidentified male operative demonstrating how mill operatives would suck the thread through the eye of a shuttle. The man holds the shuttle to his mouth and draws the thread out; 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...
Dates: 1911

Item 863: Sucking thread through the shuttle eye, Draper Company, 1911

 File — Box: 15, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.B863. February 11, 1911. Image depicts an unidentified male operative demonstrating how mill operatives would suck the thread through the eye of a shuttle. The man holds the shuttle to his mouth and draws the thread out; 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...
Dates: 1911

Item 870: Sucking thread through the shuttle eye, Draper Company, 1911

 File — Box: 15, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate 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...
Dates: 1911

Item 871: Sucking thread through the shuttle eye, Draper Company, 1911

 File — Box: 15, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate 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...
Dates: 1911