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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A male employee of the McCormick Twine Mill works with sisal fiber as it comes out of a finisher machine and piles into metal buckets. The machine is belt-... |
| Date: | 07 22 1936 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of women workers measuring, cutting and sewing sections of canvas for binder back curtains, combine hoods and curtains, burlap bags,... |
| Date: | 07 18 1927 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Kessenich's Silk Department, 201 State Street. Two women are standing on either side of a counter in the right foreground. |
| Date: | 03 28 1927 |
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| Description: | Kessenich's linen department. A clock is on the wall above the entrance, and a water fountain is on the wall on the left.. |
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| Description: | The Franklin Yextile Mills and T Steven's Company seen from the Winnehesauke River. View includes the factory dam, a smokestack and tall factory buildings. |
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| Description: | Distant elevated view of Amoskeag textile mills and the Merrimack River. Caption reads: "Manchester, N.H. - View from Amosheag." |
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| Description: | View across Quinebaug river of Powhatan and Putnam textile manufacturing mills. Caption reads: "Powhatan and Putnam Mfg. Mills, Putnam, Conn." |
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| Description: | View of Willimantic cotton mills across railroad tracks with three men standing in front. Caption reads: "Willimantic Cotton Mills Corporation, Willimantic... |
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| Description: | Street side view of Holland Manufacturing Company's West Mill, silk producers. Caption reads: "Holland M'F'G. Co. - West Mill, Willimantic, Conn." |
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| Description: | Mill Number Two of the American Tread Company. The English Sewing Company purchased the Willimantic Linen Company England mills in 1898 and formed the Amer... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Female and male factory workers operating machines in the canvas department at International Harvester's Deering Works. The canvas was likely used for grai... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Female factory workers stand around long tables in the canvas department at International Harvester's Deering Works Canvas Department. Canvas is piled in r... |
| Date: | 05 20 1953 |
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| Description: | Interior view of textile chemical laboratory at the new U.W. School of Home Economics west wing. |
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| Description: | Billhead of Island Woolen Mills of Baraboo, Wisconsin, with a three-quarter view of M.J. Drown's Island Woolen Mills building, people loading a horse-drawn... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Workers stacking bundles of McCormick binder twine in a warehouse, possibly at the McCormick Twine Mill. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | "Knotter men" work at tables in the McCormick Twine Mill. Windows line one wall of the brick room, and a system of belt-driven machinery is arranged along ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A factory worker uses a spreader machine to work with sisal fiber during the production of binder twine at the McCormick Twine Mill. White sheets are hangi... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Factory workers stand with piles of sisal fiber used in the production of binder twine. The fiber is fed into spreading machines on the right. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two male factory workers look on as sisal fiber extends out of a finisher and piles in metal containers at the McCormick Twine Mill. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Sisal (hennequen) fiber streaming from machines at the McCormick Twine Mill. |
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