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Box 2

 Container

Contains 41 Results:

Supplied title on label: “Plowing for cotton on a South Carolina Plantation”, circa 1890 – 1910.

 Item — Box: 2
Identifier: PC5.100
Scope and Contents From the Collection: 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...
Dates: 1900 - 1964