Text on reverse: "In these machines, known as Revolving Flat Top Cards, the cotton passes over revolving cylinders clothed with wire teeth, and the fibres are combed out and laid parallel with each other. They are delivered at the front of the machine as a filmy web, which is gathered together and formed into a soft downy ribbon or rope, known as card sliver. This is automatically coiled and delivered into cans."
A pair of nearly identical photographs for viewing the depicted image in three dimensions with a stereograph viewer. Looking over a room of carding machines from above; the machines are arrayed on either side of an aisle, closest in the bottom right corner, and growing more distant to the top left. The machines are connected by long belts to pulleys on the ceiling above the aisle, and the belts create large triangles throughout the frame. Several other rows of machines are visible into the background, contributing to a sense that the room is very large. Several workers, probably men, can be seen down the aisle, dwarfed by the scale of the room and the repetition of the machines. Attached to the back of each machine is a roll of cotton; in the middle of the far-right side of the frame, between two rolls of cotton, is a dark skinned worker looking directly at the camera.
Notes:
No. 4 in a set of 25 stereocards. The White Oak Cotton Mills made denim.
Cite As:
ATHM Textile Industry Stereographs. 6524/006 P. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University.
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