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Madame Dronet spinning thread from carded cotton. Erath, Louisiana

Public domain photograph - historical image of Louisiana, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Madame Dronet twisting two strands of thread into one. Erath, Louisian...

Public domain photograph of Louisiana in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Operator repairing break in thread in warp winding. Laurel cotton mill...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Making three-twist thread. Laurel cotton mills, Laurel, Mississippi

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Texas photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Infor...

Picryl description: Public domain image, detail, hands, palm, gloves, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Spinner in Vivian Cotton Mills, Cherryville, N.C. Been at it 2 years. ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Officers of the Sultan's guard and the chief chamberlain The commander...

Photographs show the Calpih's guard soldiers and chamberlain by water and a man in the Caliph's caïque, during Selamlik (Caliph's procession to the mosque for prayer), Istanbul, Turkey. A building with telepho... More

Spools of cotton thread with woman repairing break. Laurel cotton mill...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Mississippi, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Flyweight calling for four inch capacity semi-automatic turret lathe, ...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A New Britain-Gridley lathe is worked by an experienced operator at a ...

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Manuel Miranda, 229 Alden St. Very young boy, has been doffer in card ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of boy workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Doffer boy (about 46 inches high) Kesler Mfg. Co., Salisbury, N.C. Aft...

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Close ups. Close up of bobbins

Public domain photograph - historical image of South Carolina, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Converting cotton ropes into rough thread. Laurel cotton mills, Laurel...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory worker, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Removing spindles of large cotton thread from thread-making machinery....

Army uniform trouser manufacture. Kane Manufacturing Company, Louisvil...

Public domain photograph - working class people, the 1930s United States, work, labor, worker, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Discarded stockings go to war. Bleached silk stocking "material" being...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Baltimore, Maryland. Rubber sandwiches which form a cushion between th...

Public domain photograph of Maryland in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Woman (Theresa) arranging spools of thread near the warping area.

Forms part of a group of images documenting scenes at Kalkstein Silk Mills, Inc., 75 Wood Street, Paterson, New Jersey.

Warper at his machine, Newton, N.C. Location: Newton, North Carolina

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 457. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Jefferies, in the character of Atropos, cutting the thread of English ...

Print shows King John seated at a small table outside his tent, signing Magna Carta, behind him stand by two bishops. Four men are pulling a rope, the "thread of English Liberty", which is attached to King John... More

Madame Dronet spinning thread from carded cotton. Erath, Louisiana

Public domain photograph of Louisiana in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pulling cotton into cotton "ropes" which, in later processes, are comb...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s industrial development, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lititz, Pennsylvania. The Moravian sewing circle quilts for anyone at ...

Public domain photograph of quilt, needlework, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Woman with spools of thread in warping department.

Forms part of a group of images documenting scenes at Kalkstein Silk Mills, Inc., 75 Wood Street, Paterson, New Jersey on the morning of August 15, 1994.

[Cotton textile mill interior with machines producing cotton thread, p...

Public domain photograph of industrial building, factory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lincoln Cotton Mill, Evansville, Ind. Young Girls at Spoolers. Locati...

Picryl description: Public domain image of girl workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The thread of life / Keppler. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows the mythological figures of fate in the form of a man (representing Lachesis) labeled "Commercial Lawlessness" sitting with a pile of money on his lap, handing money labeled "Bribery" to a ma... More

[Women's fashions: quilted silk on chiffon - gold thread]

Photo by Bain News Service, N.Y.C. Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: BI Works... More

Spanish-American woman spinning woolen thread at WPA (Works Progress A...

Public domain photograph of 1930s industry, war production in the United States free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Valves and needles for blood tr...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Discarded stockingss go to war. Spools of silk thread, salvaged from d...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Lincoln Cotton Mill, Evansville, Ind. Young Girls at Spoolers. Locati...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Cotton textile mill interior with machines producing cotton thread, p...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Woman working at internal thread milling machine, Norton Grinding Co....

U.S. Army Industrial Service Station Section, Women's Branch photo. No. 31653.

Madame Dronet. First operation in spinning carded cotton into thread. ...

Public domain photograph of Louisiana in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Preparing waxed thread by rolling between thumb and knee. This thread ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bureau, office furniture, desk, chair, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Army uniform trouser manufacture. Kane Manufacturing Company, Louisvil...

Public domain photograph - working class people, the 1930s United States, work, labor, worker, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rack holding spools of thread; the threads are being run off to a warp...

Forms part of a group of images recorded on August 16, documenting scenes at the Joseph Teshon, Inc., jacquard-weaving mill, 196-200 21st Avenue, Paterson.

Madame Dronet making hanks of thread. Erath, Louisiana

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman, nurse, caring, hospital, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Converting cotton ropes into rough thread. Laurel cotton mills, Laurel...

Operator of winding machine in Laurel Cotton Mill repairing break in t...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Mississippi, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversion. Food machinery plant. This turret lathe was purchased seco...

New York, New York. Reel room of the New York Times newspaper. Prepari...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph related to mass media, press, newspaper, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Woman with spools of thread in warping department.

Forms part of a group of images documenting scenes at Kalkstein Silk Mills, Inc., 75 Wood Street, Paterson, New Jersey on the morning of August 15, 1994.

Cindy Fanslau working at winding operation on the first floor of the p...

Forms part of a group of images recorded on August 16, documenting scenes at the Joseph Teshon, Inc., textile plant, 196-200 21st Avenue, Paterson.

Barbour's flax thread works. Patterson, New Jersey

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Mary Brian wearing Chiffon on Satin bodice, with Silver thread lace

Public domain photograph - female portrait, 1900s women, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Threading a needle with waxed thread. Bootmaking shop, Alpine, Texas

Close-up of label on top of spool of Barbour's Irish flax thread; spoo...

Forms part of a group of images which are copies of advertisements in the collection of Marie O'Neill, who lives in Totowa, NJ.

Cindy Fanslau working at winding operation on the first floor of the p...

Forms part of a group of images recorded on August 16, documenting scenes at the Joseph Teshon, Inc., textile plant, 196-200 21st Avenue, Paterson.

Cutting thread sectors on a howitzer with a shaper, in the Erie, Penns...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an artillery gun, cannon, weapon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Hosiery factory. Key to this picture is the little spool o...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Discarded stockingss go to war. Spools of silk thread, salvaged from d...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cindy Fanslau working at winding operation on the first floor of the p...

Forms part of a group of images recorded on August 16, documenting scenes at the Joseph Teshon, Inc., textile plant, 196-200 21st Avenue, Paterson.

Woman (Theresa) arranging spools of thread near the warping area.

Forms part of a group of images documenting scenes at Kalkstein Silk Mills, Inc., 75 Wood Street, Paterson, New Jersey.

Lincoln Cotton Mills, Evansville, Ind. Girl at Spinning Machine, the s...

King Philip Mill. Drawer-in - Young learner - 14 years old, Yvette Fra...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Warper at his machine, Newton, N.C. Location: Newton, North Carolina.

Public domain photograph - historical image of North Carolina, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Young women (spooler) Kelser Mfg. Co., Salisbury, N.C. Location: Sali...

The most primitive reeling tools for silk thread, Mt. Lebanon, Syria

Public domain photograph related to child labor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dyed woolen skeins of thread at WPA (Works Progress Administration/Wor...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Parachute cloth and shrouds. The quilling operation, early...

Public domain photograph of Connecticut in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Plant manager Charles Mangrum holds spool of thread while standing bes...

Forms part of a group of images documenting scenes at Kalkstein Silk Mills, Inc., 75 Wood Street, Paterson, New Jersey on the morning of August 15, 1994.

Woman (Theresa) arranging spools of thread near the warping area.

Forms part of a group of images documenting scenes at Kalkstein Silk Mills, Inc., 75 Wood Street, Paterson, New Jersey.

Cindy Fanslau working at winding operation on the first floor of the p...

Forms part of a group of images recorded on August 16, documenting scenes at the Joseph Teshon, Inc., textile plant, 196-200 21st Avenue, Paterson.

Warper at his machine, Newton, N.C. Location: Newton, North Carolina.

Public domain photograph - historical image of North Carolina, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Old Glory's red and white and blue but not a yellow thread

This is a public-domain musical notation scan. There were many music publishers in the United States during the 1900s. Some of the most well-known ones include G. Schirmer, Inc., Boosey & Hawkes, and Hal Leonar... More

Doffer boy (about 46 inches high) Kesler Mfg. Co., Salisbury, N.C. Aft...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Cotton textile mill interior with machines producing cotton thread, p...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Spinning glass thread for the manufacture of mats and baskets, Island ...

2 women with spinning wheel. Stereo copyrighted by the Keystone View Co. No. 6454. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ph. Ind.; Baskets...; Spinning...; Geogr.; ... More

[Detailed design for a large thread spinning machine]

Illus. in: Cotton spinning : its development, principles, and practice / by Richard Marsden ... With an appendix on steam engines and boilers. London : G. Bell and sons, 1909. Published in: The tradition of te... More

Saturating cotton thread with sweet potato starch at cotton mill. Laur...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Preparing waxed thread by rolling thread between hand and knee. Boot s...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

General view of machines where cotton thread is wound onto spools from...

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Waxing thread for use in sewing boots. Bootmaking shop, Alpine, Texas

Picryl description: Public domain image of working farmers, agriculture, farm, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) weavi...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Discarded stockingss go to war. Bobbins of silk thread processed from ...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"Share The Meat" recipes. Braised stuffed heart. Fill hearts with stuf...

Public domain reproduction of still life painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Detroit, Michigan. Assembly of Rolls Royce engines at the Packard Moto...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

She's holding her family together with a needle and thread

"As seen in The New York Times Magazine March 26, 1972." Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.

Woman with spools of thread in warping department.

Forms part of a group of images documenting scenes at Kalkstein Silk Mills, Inc., 75 Wood Street, Paterson, New Jersey on the morning of August 15, 1994.

Woman with spools of thread in warping department.

Forms part of a group of images documenting scenes at Kalkstein Silk Mills, Inc., 75 Wood Street, Paterson, New Jersey on the morning of August 15, 1994.

Doffer boy (about 46 inches high) Kesler Mfg. Co., Salisbury, N.C. Aft...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 425. Text cuts off; no continuation card found. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library o... More

Spinner in Vivian Cotton Mills, Cherryville, N.C. Been at it 2 years. ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Cotton textile mill interior with machines producing cotton thread, p...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a machine, industrial equipment, engine, generator, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sammelt Brennesseln, die deutsche Baumwolle! / Fritz Wolffhügel, Münch...

Poster shows a spool of thread on a nettle stalk surrounded by nettle leaves; in background the Bavarian flag. Text: Collect stinging nettles, the German cotton. Bavarian Nettle Center, Munich. Forms part of: R... More

Mixing starch into proper consistency for application to cotton thread...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Spanish-American woman spinning woolen thread at WPA (Works Progress A...

Public domain photograph of a woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Worker winding cotton thread onto large spools. Laurel cotton mills, L...

Public domain photograph - working class people, the 1930s United States, work, labor, worker, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. 155mm shells. Threads cut in the noses of 155mm shells by ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Discarded stockingss go to war. Here's what comes from your old silk s...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Plant manager Charles Mangrum stands between looms; he is holding a sp...

Forms part of a group of images documenting scenes at Kalkstein Silk Mills, Inc., 75 Wood Street, Paterson, New Jersey.

Cindy Fanslau working at winding operation on the first floor of the p...

Forms part of a group of images recorded on August 16, documenting scenes at the Joseph Teshon, Inc., textile plant, 196-200 21st Avenue, Paterson.

King Philip Mill. Drawer-in - Young learner - 14 years old, Yvette Fra...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Applying sweet potato starch to cotton thread at cotton mill. Laurel, ...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Preparing rayon thread at the Denomah Mills, Taftville, Connecticut. M...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.