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| Description: | The William Skinner and Sons Silk Mill, founded in 1848, stands along the left bank of a canal. A bridge crosses the water in the foreground. |
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| Description: | View across an open field looking toward Bald Mountain Furniture Company and Angle Silk Mills Plant. |
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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... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Fredman Bag Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, manufacturer of burlap and cotton bags and twines, with illustrations of two sacks, and a "J... |
| Date: | 09 23 1942 |
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| Description: | Label submitted to the State of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "Polaris Custom Designed Angora Comforter." Features a five pointed silver colored st... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Postcard with three illustrations — the Cotton Mills, the First M.E. Church, and the High School. |
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| Description: | Postcard view of a dam with a mill behind it. Caption reads: "Upper Woolen Mill Dam, Beaver Dam, Wisconsin." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A group of young women in kimonos examining fabric while young men look on. In her journal from Japan and South Korea, Carrie records that fabric is one of... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A man and a woman squat on a mat on the floor, whipping wool to prepare it for use. They wear white scarves on their heads. The bottom right of the image c... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | In her journal from Japan and South Korea, Carrie describes the process of preparing cotton to be used for yarn or clothing. This image shows three women w... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View down aisle of two rows of women workers using looms in a textile factory. A few men stand in the aisle. In her journal from China, Carrie describes th... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A woman and a man using spinning wheels in a textile factory. In her journal Carrie describes the conditions of these factories in China as crowded and wit... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A girl using a type of spinning wheel. She is wearing a kimono and a head wrapping. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Women working in a textile factory. They are cleaning or dying material. Carrie describes the work at textile factories in her journal from China as crowde... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Wisconsin State Prison, manufacturers of binder twine, with the profile of a badger standing on top of stacked rolls of binder twine; the... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Oliver Steele Manufacturing Company, with examples of various styles of adjustable window shades along both sides of the page. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of Collingbourne Mills Western Thread Company, with a bird's eye view of the company complex, flanked by examples along the left-hand side of th... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A group of women employees of the N.R. Allen Tannery posing with a pile of tan bark. |
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| Description: | Hand-colored view of a mill as seen from a foot bridge. Caption reads: "The Old Mill, Delavan, Wis." |
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