MAKE A MEME View Large Image New Jersey - Textiles - Wishnack Silk Company - A machine twister is shown being operated" - NARA - 518762.jpg Scope and content Paterson New Jersey - Textiles Wishnack Silk Company A machine twister is shown being operated This particular ...
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Keywords: "Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles - Wishnack Silk Company - A machine twister is shown being operated" - NARA - 518762.jpg Scope and content Paterson New Jersey - Textiles Wishnack Silk Company A machine twister is shown being operated This particular machine is made by the Warp Twisting-In Machine Company The machine will twist in the ordinary warp of 5-6000 ends in about 1 to 1-1/4 hours depending upon whether the automatic or semi-automatic power is used It is estimated that the machine can twist approximately 300 ends per minute This estimate is substantially correct for both the automatic and semi-automatic types of operation The semi-automatic power is applied by turning the handle and wheel drive shown opposite the worker's right forearm When operated automatically the operative keeps the power turned on with the lever he is holding in his right hand Both kinds of operation are necessary since the machine is not so well adapted to rayon and other inferior types of yarn as it is to good quality hard silk Twisting in the former type of yarn requires more care and less speed hence the use of the semi-automatic device A General notes 518762 Local identifier 69-RP-705 Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration National Research Project ca 1941 - ca 1942 NARA-Author Hine Lewis Wickes 1874-1940 Photographer 1122914 <br /> Paterson Passaic New Jersey United States North and Central America inhabited place 4202736 40 917 -74 167 <br /> Still Picture Records Section Special Media Archives Services Division NWCS-S National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park MD 20740-6001 1937-06 Record group Record Group 69 Records of the Work Projects Administration 1922 - 1944 Record group ARC 398 Lewis Hine Photographs for the National Research Project compiled 1936 - 1937 Series ARC 518291 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NWDNS-69-RP-705 Other versions <gallery> File Paterson _New_Jersey_-_Textiles_-_Wishnack_Silk_Company_-_A_machine_twister_is_shown_being_operated _-_NARA_-_518762 tif tif File Paterson _New_Jersey_-_Textiles_-_Wishnack_Silk_Company_-_A_machine_twister_is_shown_being_operated _-_NARA_-_518762 jpg jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Weaving preparation Paterson New Jersey-Textiles Men at work in the United States
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