Female employee at spinning frame, Cyril Johnson Woolen Company, Stafford Springs, Connecticut
- Title:
- Female employee at spinning frame, Cyril Johnson Woolen Company, Stafford Springs, Connecticut
- Collection:
- Introduction to Photography Collections at Cornell
- Set:
- Labor and Work
- Photographer:
- Burns Photography Inc
- Creation Date:
- 1960
- ID Number:
- 0000-100-78
- Collection Number:
- 6589 P
- Athm Number:
- 0000.100.78
- File Name:
- 0000-100-78.jpg
- Work Type:
- photograph
- Materials/Techniques:
- gelatin silver prints
- Subject:
- looms
Textile factories
Women employees
Wool industry
Weaving
Textile Industry
Women textile workers
Bobbins (Textile machinery) - Measurement:
- 28 x 35.5 (centimeters, width x height)
- Description:
- A largely symmetrical image looking down a narrow aisle between two spinning frames (a machine that spins fiber into yarn or thread). A light skinned woman, dressed in a dark, knee-length skirt suit is fully visible in profile, with her hands on the middle of the machine on the left. A basket of full bobbins is in the foreground.
- Cite As:
- Cyril Johnson Woolen Company Photographs. 6589 P. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University.
- Repository:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University
- Archival Collection:
- Cyril Johnson Woolen Company Photographs
- Box:
- 1
- Folder:
- 6
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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