In a Great Spinning Room, 104,000 Spindles, Olympian Mills, Columbia, South Carolina

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Description

This stereograph features children and men standing among hundreds of rows of spindles in a thread spinning room that holds 140,000 spindles. The publisher's name is printed on either end of the images and the title of the images and the copyright are along the bottom right edge. The back of the stereograph provides a brief history of thread and cloth spinning.

Publication Date

1890

Publisher

Underwood and Underwood

Time Period

1890-1899

Subjects

Spinning pumps (Textile machinery)

Geographic Location

Columbia, (S. Car.)

Object Type

image

Format (original)

stereograph: b&w

Format (digital)

PDF

Digital ID

MFM_MSS_837_Stereograph-20_001

Source

Mississippi State University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections Division, Manuscripts Unit, Lucius Marion Lampton, MD Historical Images Collection, Americana Collection, Stereographs

Repository

Manuscripts

Digital Publisher

Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version)

Rights

Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required.

Contact Information

For more information about the contents of this collection, email sp_coll@library.MSState.edu.

Recommended Citation

In a Great Spinning Room, 104,000 Spindles, Olympian Mills, Columbia, South Carolina, Lucius Marion Lampton, MD Historical Images Collection, Archives and Special Collections Department, Mississippi State University