Text on reverse: "The roving from the Speeders is placed on the Spinning Frames and now undergoes its final draft as it passes through the spinning rolls. The attenuated fibres are then twisted firmly together by the action of the spindles which turn at a speed of about 10,000 revolutions per minute. The yarn thus formed is wound on bobbins and is ready to be dyed and weaved."
A pair of nearly identical photographs for viewing the depicted image in three dimensions with a stereograph viewer. Looking down a long aisle of spinning machines, each with many dozens of bobbins of thread on them, in a large room full of similar aisles. Workers, mostly light skinned women wearing long dresses, are standing in the aisles tending to the machines. The machines are connected to the line shaft, a large belt and pulley system on the ceiling used for transferring power.
Notes:
No. 8 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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