Female employees, Farr Alpaca Co., Holyoke, Massachusetts
















- Title:
- Female employees, Farr Alpaca Co., Holyoke, Massachusetts
- Collection:
- Introduction to Photography Collections at Cornell
- Set:
- Labor and Work
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Creation Date:
- 1927-1933
- ID Number:
- 2001-144-1
- Collection Number:
- 6637 P
- Athm Number:
- 2001.144.1
- File Name:
- 2001-144-1.jpg
- Work Type:
- photograph
- Materials/Techniques:
- gelatin silver prints with applied color
- Subject:
- Textile factories
Women employees
Textile Industry
Women textile workers - Measurement:
- 21.5 x 16.5 (centimeters, width x height)
- Description:
- A large, posed group of light skinned female employees, along with a few men, of the Farr Alpaca Co., of Holyoke, Mass., possibly the employees of the weave room. The people are arranged in 5 long rows and are all dressed casually in short sleeves without hats. The man in the center in the short-sleeved, open-neck white shirt is identified as Jim Whyte. The woman in the second row from the back, sixth from the left, is identified as Myrtle Potts, who later married Jim Whyte. Photo has been selectively hand colored: clothes are colored lightly in yellows, oranges, blues, and pinks, and hair and cheeks are occasionally colored.
- Cite As:
- Farr Alpaca Company Photographs. 6637 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:
- Farr Alpaca Company Photographs
- Box:
- 1
- Folder:
- 1
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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