Photograph
Binder Twine Mill
Male and female factory workers wear protective hair bonnets while working in a room where twine is wound, weighed, and inspected. The workers stand in a row of belt-driven machines near a row of windows. The location may be a twine mill at International Harvester's Deering Works. |
Image ID: | 79317 |
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Creation Date: | circa 1910 |
Creator Name: | International Harvester Company |
City: | Chicago(?) |
County: | |
State: | Illinois |
Collection Name: | International Harvester Company corporate archives central file (documented series), 1819-1998 |
Genre: | Photograph |
Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
Original Format Number: | MCC MSS 6Z, Box 1182 |
Original Dimensions: | 9.5 x 7.5 inches |
The original caption reads, "Illust. 52 - The Balling, Weighing, and Inspecting of Binder Twine. (Neg. No. D-495). To this department the bobbins full of twine are sent from the spinning room. Here the twine is wound into balls weighed, inspected and put in sacks ready for the market." |
Ceilings |
Windows |
Protective clothing |
Work clothes |
Agricultural machinery industry |
Machinery |
Textile industry |
Indoor photography |
Men |
Women |
Signs and signboards |
Blue collar workers |
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