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Looms

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

179. ; The versatile Lancashire Loom.

 Item — Photograph 16: Series Series 3
Identifier: Photograph 16
Scope and Contents

This African, employed at the Textile Mills at Martin Spur, is weaving striped denim. ; Photograph by RONALD D.K. HADDEN ; COPYRIGHT ; Federal Information Department ; P.O. Box 140, Causeway, ; Southern Rhodesia. ; Negative No. 179 ; 16 ; SR-16--Verso

Dates: ca. 1935-1977
Found in: Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies / 008, Vernon McKay (1912-1988) Papers / Personal Papers / Photographs / Southern Rhodesia

196. ; A modern high speed Beamer

 Item — Photograph 6: Series Series 3
Identifier: Photograph 6
Scope and Contents

Hundreds of threads being collected together to form a warpess beam many thousands of yards in length. This is the first sstage in weaving the yarn into cloth. ; (David Whitehead & Sons, hartley). ; Photograph by RONALD D.K. HADDEN ; COPYRIGHT ; Federal Information Department ; P.O. Box 140, Causeway, ; Southern Rhodesia. ; Negative No 196 ; 6 ; SR-6--Verso

Dates: ca. 1935-1977
Found in: Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies / 008, Vernon McKay (1912-1988) Papers / Personal Papers / Photographs / Southern Rhodesia

An African operator checks the weave on one of the automatic looms at David Whitehead's textile factory in Rhodesia.

 Item — Photograph 21: Series Series 3
Identifier: Photograph 21
Scope and Contents

Photograph by RONALD D.K. HADDEN ; COPYRIGHT ; Federal Information Department ; P.O. Box 140, Causeway, ; Southern Rhodesia. ; Negative No. 501 ; 21 ; SR-21--Verso

Dates: ca. 1935-1977
Found in: Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies / 008, Vernon McKay (1912-1988) Papers / Personal Papers / Photographs / Southern Rhodesia