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New Bedford, Mass., speeders, Holmes Mill

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Collection Type

  • Photography

Location Note

Postcards - Massachusetts - New Bedford.

GUSN

GUSN-191282

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Description

Interior view of a factory with speeder machines. The machines line the floor, with mechanisms from floor to ceiling. No factory workers are shown. Spools of yarn or thread are piled on top of some of the machines.

Details

Descriptive Terms

factories (structures)
machinery
textile mills
industrial buildings
interior views
postcards
photographs

Additional Identification Number

Postcard number 2143

Physical Description

1 postcard

Collection Code

PC001

Collection Name

General photographic collection

Date of Acquisition

1916-08-15

Reference Code

PC001.03.01.TMP.045

Places

New Bedford (Bristol county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

H.S. Hutchinson & Co. (New Bedford, Mass.) (Publisher)

Material Type

postcards
photographs

Subjects

Architectural photography

Accruals Note

W.H.Bunting, The Camera's Coast: Historic Images of Ship and Shore in New England (Boston: Historic New England, 2006) pg.128.

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Postcards - Massachusetts - New Bedford.

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