Textile Photos

Power Loom

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Ring Throstle, McCulley’s Patent Livespindle, by the Lowell Machine Shop, lithograph by Tappan and Bradford, ca. 1850.

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Restored carding machine (Quarry Bank Mill, Cheshire, England)

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Notice the windows. Very similar to the construction of the windows at New Manchester.

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A post war view described as a Little Spinner from the Globe Cotton Mill in Augusta. Conditions are no doubt very similar to New Manchester Manufacturing Company.

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