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	Search results for Room    Refine your search Try advanced search results 1-12 of 12 item(s)  page 1 of 1 : ( <<  1  >> ) :: previous : next select all : clear all : add to favorites   Image: Title: Subject: Description: 1. Longfellow Room of the Carnegie Library Libraries--Alabama--Huntsville; Jones, Frances; The Longfellow Room of the Carnegie Library in Huntsville, Alabama was the children's reading room. It was headed by librarian Frances Jones. 2. Merrimack Mill 1905 Card Room Merrimack Mill (Huntsville, Ala.); Textile factories--Alabama--Huntsville; These gentlemen are employed in the Card Room. It was their job to loosen or straighten the cotton fibers (smooth the cotton out). This room contained 400 small cards, known as "railroad" cards. Weights... 3. Merrimack Mill Spinners and Doffers 1905 Textile workers--Alabama--Huntsville; Merrimack Mill (Huntsville, Ala.); Doffers and spinners from the 4th Floor, No. 1 Spinning Room, 1905. Children and young girls were usually employed in the spinning room because of their small hands. Doffers were generally young boys who... 4. Merrimack Mill Textile factories--Alabama--Huntsville; Merrimack Mill (Huntsville, Ala.); Cotton bales were delivered to the mill on wagons or drays pulled by mules. Here, in the holding room, bales of tightly compressed cotton are opened and fed into machines which "draw" the fibers apart,... 5. Huntsville Manufacturing Company Weaving Room Huntsville Manufacturing Company (Ala.); Textile factories--Alabama--Huntsville; These textile mill employees are working in the "Weaving Room". Weaving transforms yarn into cloth. It interlaces two sets of threads in the machine, which is called a loom. The set of yarn which run the... 6. Harvest School, Madison County, Ala. Schools--Alabama--Madison County; The second Harvest school building was a two-story frame building which consisted of four classrooms and a music room. The building burned in 1936. Pictured is Madison County Superintendent of Education... 7. Story hour at the Huntsville Public Library Libraries--Alabama--Huntsville; Childrens' librarian Miss Frances Jones is shown with young patrons at the story hour in the Longfellow room of the Huntsville Public Library. Many pictured are the children of German rocket scientists.... 8. Huntsville Manufacturing Company Roving Room Huntsville Manufacturing Company (Ala.); Textile factories--Alabama--Huntsville; These ladies are working the "roving machines". "Roving" is a smaller strand of cotton that has been further reduced by rollers and bobbin speed. To resist breaking, the roving is given many twists as... 9. Merrimack Mill Spinning Room Merrimack Mill (Huntsville, Ala.); Textile factories--Alabama--Huntsville; In 1905, when Merrimack Mill was completed, the plant operated with 90,000 spindles and 2,000 looms and produced high-grade print cloths. This is one of several spinning rooms. 10. Cedar Point School, Madison County, Ala. Schools--Alabama--Madison County; Cedar Point School was located approximately seven miles east of New Hope. The first building was a church and later a two-room school. The second room was added around 1911 or 1912. Students came by boat... 11. Bessie K. Russell at the Huntsville Public Library Libraries--Alabama--Huntsville; Russell, Bessie K. ; Pictured is librarian Bessie K. Russell, who started the Huntsville Heritage Room at the Huntsville Public Library, and Mr. Richard Covey who was the director at the time. At this point the Carnegie building... 12. Huntsville Manufacturing Company Card Room Huntsville Manufacturing Company (Ala.); Textile factories--Alabama--Huntsville; The picker laps are fed into carding machines where they are reduced to a thin layer of cotton. Fine wire teeth comb the cotton, coming out in the form of a one-inch rope called roving. select all : clear all : add to favorites results 1-12 of 12 item(s)  page 1 of 1 : ( <<  1  >> ) :: previous : next
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