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25 photos and 3 illustrations tagged textile, from 12 members of Flickr Commons.

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Related tags

Tags that often appear on the same photos & illustrations:

• work
• factory
• industry
• workers
• labor
• libraryofcongress
• xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11
• mill
• man
• loom
• boy
• woman
• working
• bldigital
• publicdomain
• mechanicalcurator
• machinery
• fabric
• cloth
• blackandwhitephotograph
• industrial
• women
• textiles
• weaving

Members using this tag

• The Library of Congress 6 photos & illustrations
• North East Museums 4 photos & illustrations
• Swedish National Heritage Board - Riksantikvarieämbetet 3 photos & illustrations
• The National Archives UK 3 photos & illustrations
• British Library 3 photos & illustrations
• Center for Jewish History, NYC 2 photos & illustrations
• Smithsonian Institution 2 photos & illustrations
• Museum of Photographic Arts 1 photo / illustration
• Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales 1 photo / illustration
• State Library of Queensland 1 photo / illustration
• Nationaal Archief 1 photo / illustration
• UC Berkeley, Department of Geography 1 photo / illustration

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Factory buildings in Lowell, Mass. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 12 older comments, and then…
• Bruce Barone said:

  WOW! Looks so much like Easthampton, but, I guess, that mis not surprising. xo

• BronzePolgara said:

  Ha! My cousin lives in the building on the left now, they converted it to apartments. According to him, that fence in the front is where the swimming pool is now.

• Adam Slight said:

  looks a lot like fall river too.

• BronzePolgara said:

  My cousin took a picture of what these buildings look like now, from the same angle: www.flickr.com/photos/pcarlson/2209255147/

• rrsafety said:

  Bronze, thanks a bunch.. that is great!

Eagle and Phoenix Mill. "Dinner-toters" waiting for the gate to open. ... Location: Columbus, Georgia (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 1 older comment, and then…
• Art Siegel said:

  The Eagle and Phenix Mill in Columbus, Georgia, was once the largest textile mill in the country. Now it's remodeled for condominiums with "unsurpassed urban living in thriving downtown Columbus". Hopefully, the delivery people serving the new residents are older than this little guy. columbusgawedding.com/venues/eagle-phenix-mill/

• well-made order said:

  Fortunatelly the world has changed for better!

• swanq said:

  userpages.umbc.edu/~arubin/HIST402_SP2007/EAC8B9745E34B73... is what looks like a class paper on the topic of "dinner-toters" based on Hine's photos. www.jstor.org/stable/1011879 is a 1911 piece by another National Child Labor Committee activist. The Dinner Toter. Charles L. Coon. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science , Vol. 38, Supplement: Uniform Child Labor Laws (Jul., 1911), pp. 85-89

• mambo1935 said:

  poor kid!

• Art Siegel said:

  swanq Great links, thanks.

Water seller

from Center for Jewish History, NYC

• mhobl said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Just walking, and we'd love to have this added to the group!