"Lapping Machine--Cheney Brothers' Factory"; Photograph, 1915
date: label: date made
content: 1915
name: label: maker
content: Cheney Brothers
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: "Lapping Machine--Cheney Brothers' Factory"; Photograph, 1915. Woman worker taking dressed silk fiber batts and overlapping them as they go through the lapping machine in preparation for spinning into yarn. One of 46 photographic reproductions of views illustrating sericulture in Japan and silk manufacture in the Cheney Brothers factory in South Manchester, Connecticut. Donated by Cheney Brothers in 1915 for use in the National Museum's Textile Hall. With caption, 12" x 10". Keystone View Co.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Manchester, South Manchester
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: American Silks
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content: Cheney Brothers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Cheney Brothers Manufacturers
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T19174.028
label: catalog number
content: T19174.028
label: accession number
content: 58893
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Photograph
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in x 10 in; 30.48 cm x 25.4 cm