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| Date: | 01 27 1925 |
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| Description: | A factory worker loads bags of twine onto a conveyor belt, while another waits at the top of the pile to stack the twine in a storage space, possibly at th... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Interior office view showing Frank James Harwood, General Manager of Appleton Woolen Mills. Harwood became general manager in 1882 and served as the compa... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Award certificate presented to the Appleton Woolen Mills at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. The company won a bronze medal at the Fair for its paper makers... |
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| Description: | First textile workers organizing convention. Cole Dandenburg with his wife on left. Zilphia Horton, Myles Horton on right. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | A young man in overalls standing next to a Green Valley Dairy sign. Scene from the Lumberton textile workers strike. |
| Date: | 12 21 1925 |
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| Description: | A man operating a McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor to haul a long train of carts holding bundles of fiber, possibly for burlap. Another man is lo... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A man rides on the back of a train of carts loaded with burlap sacks as it enters the Chase Bag Company warehouse from the steamship dock. |
| Date: | 05 18 1925 |
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| Description: | A man operating a McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor to haul carts loaded with what appear to be bundles of burlap fabric. There is an industrial b... |
| Date: | 05 05 1926 |
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| Description: | An International truck used by Ascher's 100% Pure Wool Knit Goods Company parked in front of a building marked: "Gerosa Haulage & Warehouse." One man is si... |
| Date: | 09 19 1961 |
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| Description: | View of a woolen mill, as seen from across a river and dam. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A man is standing in a warehouse beside bales of manila fiber used to make twine at the McCormick Twine Mill. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men feeding fiber into manufacturing machines standing on a large factory floor with a high ceiling, many exposed ceiling beams, windows, and brick walls. ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View across river of a large mill or factory complex, possibly the Island Woolen Mill. In front of the mill is a roofed boathouse, with a canoe hanging fro... |
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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: | Elevated view of the mills' sprawling building complex. Caption reads: "Middleburg Cotton Mills, Batesburg, S.C." |
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