Weaving Room (2,400 Looms) great Olympian Cotton Mills, Columbia, South Carolina
Underwood & Underwood
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1910
Materials
Card
Measurements
Card size 88 x 178 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520668.22
Summary
An albumen print stereograph depicting a weaving room with long rows of machines weaving cotton cloth with weavers standing behind each machine. The print is mounted on stiff, curved, grey card with rounded corners. The images have arched tops and square bottoms. Recto: Printed in black in on the right lower margin: 'Weaving Room (2,400 Looms) great Olympian Cotton Mills, Columbia, South Carolina Copyright 1908 by Underwood & Underwood. In the left and margin, printed in italic print in black ink: "Underwood and Underwood Publishers New York, London, Toronto - Canada, Ottawa - Kansas. In the right hand margin: "Works and Studios Arlington, N.J., Westwood, N.J Verso is a weaving cotton. Weaving room (2400 Looms); Cotton Mills, Columbia, in English French German Italian Swedish Spanish and Russian
Provenance
Part of The Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986
Makers and roles
Underwood & Underwood, photographer and publisher