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"Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles - Wishnack Silk Company - A machine twister is shown being operated"   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Author
Lewis Hine  (1874–1940)  wikidata:Q347194 q:it:Lewis Hine
 
Lewis Hine
Alternative names
Lewis Wickes Hine
Description American sociologist, photographer and photojournalist
Date of birth/death 26 September 1874 Edit this at Wikidata 3 November 1940 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Oshkosh Hastings-on-Hudson
Work period 1903 Edit this at Wikidata–1940 Edit this at Wikidata
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New York City Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q347194
(NARA record: 1122914)
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Federal Works Agency. Work Projects Administration. National Research Project. (ca. 1941 - ca. 1942)
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"Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles - Wishnack Silk Company - A machine twister is shown being operated"
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  • 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 upong 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 ... "
Depicted place Paterson (Passaic, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America) inhabited place (40°55′01″N 74°10′01″W / 40.917°N 74.167°W / 40.917; -74.167; NARA geographical record)
Date June 1937
date QS:P571,+1937-06-00T00:00:00Z/10
institution QS:P195,Q38945047
Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S)
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This media is available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 518761.

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  • Record group: Record Group 69: Records of the Work Projects Administration, 1922 - 1944 (National Archives Identifier: 398)
  • Series: Lewis Hine Photographs for the National Research Project, compiled 1936 - 1937 (National Archives Identifier: 518291)
  • NAIL Control Number: NWDNS-69-RP-704
  • 69-RP-704
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