Views of Manchester
ManufacturerManufactured by
Keystone View Company
(American, 1892 - 1962)
PublisherPublished by
Keystone View Company
(American, 1892 - 1962)
PhotographerPhotographed by
Unknown
Date1900-1914
MediumPhotography; albumen prints on paper on cardboard mounts, getatin silver prints on paper on cardboard mounts
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 3 1/4 x 3 1/16in. (8.3 x 7.8cm) or smaller
Sheet (height x width): 3 1/4 x 3 1/16in. (8.3 x 7.8cm) or smaller
Mount (height x width): 3 7/8 x 6 7/8in. (9.8 x 17.5cm) or smaller
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineThe Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund
Object number2012.536.265-.294
DescriptionA large group of photographs documents the making of silk fabric at the Cheney Brothers Silk Manufacturing Company in Manchester, Connecticut. Subjects include Opening Bales of Raw Silk, the Pierced Cocoons as it arrives in Bales, Inspecting and Sorting Raw Silk, Weighing and Sorting Raw Silk, Frisons after Washing, Sorting and Cleaning Frisons, Drawing Machines for Combing our Silk Fibers, Straightening Silk Fibers, Combed Silk as it Appears Coming out of the Dressing Machine, Inspecting Combed Silk, Rolls of Dressed Fibre, Spinning Silk, A Mechanical Twister at Work, Doubling Machine for Winding Thread, Winding Thread from Skeins on Bobbins, Designing Room for Cloth to be Woven on Jacquard Looms, General View of a Weaving Room, Quilling, Beaming Off, Reeling Warp, View of Electric Stop Motion (a Mechanism Enabling a Weaver to Produce Perfect Cloth), Jacquard Loom at Work Weaving Brocade, Ribbon Loom Weaving Tubular Silk Neckties, Bleaching Vats for Cloth in the Piece, Vats for Dying Cloth in the Piece, and Printing Cloth. Two photographs, identified as "Views in the Highland," show waterfalls in the area that is now known as Highland Park.
Part of the John S. Craig Collection.
Part of the John S. Craig Collection.
Status
Not on view
Tentso Sichoe
2017 June 21
