Text on reverse: "After being dyed, the warps are washed and then passed through drying machinery, from which they are delivered in coils. These are brought to the beaming frames, where they are again spread out into sheets of parallel threads, passed through the teeth of a steel comb which separates the threads and prevents tangling, and in this form they are wound on huge iron spools knowns as Slasher Beams."
A pair of nearly identical photographs for viewing the depicted image in three dimensions with a stereograph viewer. Looking down across a row of light skinned men working at beaming frames. The camera is at an oblique angle, slightly behind the closest worker. Many threads pass from the left to the right side of the frame, and each workman has his hand on the threads as they turn to be wound onto a large spool near the worker's knees. The beaming frame and workers are in the bottom half of the image, while the upper half is entirely ceiling, columns, and line shaft to turn the large spools.
Notes:
No. 12 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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