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Description
An unidentified worker attends the slashing machines at the Pepperell Mills, Biddeford, circa 1925. In the slashing room yarn was wound onto huge 3 foot diameter spools to prepare them for the weaving rooms. Here the yarn on section beams from the warping rooms are being wound onto the big loom beams.
About This Item
- Title: Slashing machines at Pepperell Mills, Biddeford, ca. 1925
- Creation Date: circa 1925
- Subject Date: circa 1925
- Location: Biddeford, York County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 12.5 cm x 17.5 cm
- Local Code: 2826
- Collection: Archival Collections
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Textile industry--Equipment and supplies--Maine--Biddeford
- Pepperell Manufacturing Company
- Textile factories--Maine--Biddeford
- Textile mill workers--Maine--Biddeford
- Interiors
- Textile industry--Maine--Biddeford
- Milling machines
- Employees--Maine--Biddeford
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