New Bedford Institute of Technology photographs

The collection includes lantern slides, glass plate negatives, transparencies and photoprints. The bulk of the lantern slides primarily depict students from the New Bedford Textile School operating textile machinery and tools, engaged in classes on topics such as advanced designing, electrical laboratory, motor testing, hand warping, loom, mechanical drawing, and machine shop to name a few. They date to approximately the 1920s and are reproduced in the annual catalogues of the school. The non-NBTS slides depict various topics in textile manufacturing and were probably used in teaching around the same time. These are in some cases purchased slides from vendors such as E.W. Goodrich and Underwood & Underwood. These includes images of workers in various stages of cotton preparation from areas in the United States, as well as in Egypt; some depict illustrations of physical properties of cotton plants, as well as diagrams of various cotton and textiles equipment. The collection also includes a set of transparencies of SMTI students, all textile-related and the previously processed collection of NBTS/NBIT photoprints (box 4).