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Scope and Contents Gelatin silver print. Image depicts a male employee at work at an embossing machine at the Reading, Mass., division of Goodall-Sanford, Inc., of Sanford, Me. The Reading division handled dyeing and finishing. Note the large rolls of plastic fabric standing on the left. Text: "Embossing, Reading Division. Here is shown a machine which embosses plastic fabric utilizing a steel engraved plate. The designs are usually of two classes--leather-like or simulated fabric patterns." 25 x 20.5 cm....

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U.S.Department of Agriculture; Negative #20397.

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U.S.Department of Agriculture; Negative #20398.

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Desizing worsted cloth from loom: cloth moves fro right to left. U.S.Department of Agriculture; Negative #20399.

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Shearing: cutting off excess lengths of fibers projecting from surface of cloth. U.S.Department of Agriculture; Negative #20400.

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Worsted cording the wool, long fibers. Producing a "ball" of card sliver. U.S.Department of Agriculture; Negative #20401.

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Cloth measuring and folding machine. U.S.Department of Agriculture; Negative #20402.

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Open-width dryers and cloth rolls. The white cloth is the "leader" for threading the cloth to be processed through the machine. U.S.Department of Agriculture; Negative #20403.

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Rope (wet) scouring of cloth. U.S.Department of Agriculture; Negative #20404.

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Frame at extreme left supports jackspools of yarn. Yarns then go to the back reed where other special yarns are added, pass over two rolls, through a lease reed, through a reducing reed, then onto the sectin reel where the warp is made up. This would then be rewound onto a loom beam (on the further side of the section reel). U.S.Department of Agriculture; Negative #20405.