Little Bo Peep: Wool Processing and Manufacturing Uses / Parade

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Little Bo Peep: Wool Processing and Manufacturing Uses / Parade

Ford Motor Company

1920

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. “Feeding a hungry carding machine.” Rows of bins and carding machines - worker feeding wool into machine. “The combing cylinders at work.” Machine in operation. “‘Carding Clothing’ is a continuous wire brush which is wound upon the carding rolls (Would make a great back scratcher).” Close-up of brush - machines in operation. “Spools of various colored materials are blended on the finishers, the last breaker of the carding machine.” “These small cords are ‘roving’, a trait inherited from the sheep no doubt.” “Roving is made into yarn by twisting and stretching thus giving the required strength and size.” “Methods have changed since grandmother was a girl.” Close-up of stretching and twisting machine in operation. “The yarn is wound on large bobbins for the knitting machine.” Woman operating machine - view of several bobbins. “The knitting machine knits the fabric for underwear into long tubular shape. A perfect 36.” Knitting machine in operation. “Knitting cuffs.” “Scouring fabric.” “Many thicknesses are cut at the same time. The circular knife in operation.” Man cutting pattern through several thicknesses with circular knife. “By using 9 needles and thread you can make a perfectly flat seam, it seems.” Woman using a sewing machine - close-up of seam. “Cutting cuffs.” “Button holes are made in one operation.” “Pressing in hydraulic press.” Several pairs of underwear are packed in stacks - several stacks are put into press. “Sewing on buttons.” [1920] b. Parade of mounted officers and civilians, band, marching units, sailor holding sign, ‘What is Left of Navy Quota 1861-1865,’ men in Civil War uniforms, spectators, streetcar traffic. [1917]

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http://catalog.archives.gov/id/7419179

1920

National Archives and Records Administration