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The Princess of Wales, visits AW Hainsworth, Leeds. In 1958, The Princess’ great-great grandfather sold William Lupton & Co to AW Hainsworth. HRH will learn more about the mills’ historic connection to her ancestors during her time there.📸@DannyLawPhoto #PrincessofWales
The Princess of Wales, visits AW Hainsworth, Leeds. In 1958, The Princess’ great-great grandfather sold William Lupton & Co to AW Hainsworth. HRH will learn more about the mills’ historic connection to her ancestors during her time there.📸@DannyLawPhoto #PrincessofWales
Original Caption: Lincoln Cotton Mills, Evansville, Ind. Girls at weaving machines; warpers. Evansville, Ind, October 1908 U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 102-LH-220 Photographer: Hine, Lewis Subjects: Child Labor National Child Labor Committee Working Conditions Factory Persistent URL: research.archives.gov/description/523100 Repository: Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001. For information about ordering reproductions of photographs held by the Still Picture Unit, visit: www.archives.gov/research/order/still-pictures.html Reproductions may be ordered via an independent vendor. NARA maintains a list of vendors at www.archives.gov/research/order/vendors-photos-maps-dc.html Access Restrictions: Unrestricted Use Restrictions: Unrestricted
Textile Artist Sharon Brown presented new work at Queen Street Mill which reimagined found letters and documents connected to the history and workers of Lancashire cotton mills. Using freehand machine embroidery, Sharon celebrated and preserved fragments of the skills, structures and rhythms of generations of often forgotten lives spent working in the textile industry. Drawing with the sewing machine, creating layers of stitch that capture layers of history, these handwritten fragile papers revealed not only personal histories but also glimpses of global events and the social and cultural context in which they were written. Further details of the ‘Stitched Histories’ community project can be found on Facebook at Stitched Histories – Textiles Responding to Memories of Cotton Mills
A little history lesson on the Lancashire cotton mills and a great video made to promote it by the British council in 1941
A textile manufacturer fears for the future of the industry in Huddersfield after a lack of success in recruiting apprentices.
The Princess of Wales, Catherine, visited Leeds and Lancaster to learn about the Textile industry and her family connections with the
Beautiful Welsh blanket made from 100% recycled pure wool by Tweedmill in the UK. Woven in the Welsh mountains for 40 years. These British Made Blankets feature a traditional pattern, our blankets are produced using artisanal techniques established over the 38 year rich textile history of the manufacturer.
The Way We Were: Cotton industry
The girl on the right hand side with the scissors in her belt is Alice Donohoe (nee Brady). Her granddaughter kindly allowed me to scan and upload this photo.
The interior of Jones Cotton Mill in Manchester.
Ca.1897-1900 T. ENAMI Glass Slide from a Stereoview. Enami the artist was also Enami the documentary maker. He photographed many labor and factory scenes like this. Here's another example of many on this photostream : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/3286612006/ ********************************************** HAPPY 150TH, T. ENAMI ! FEBRUARY 17, 2009. SESQUICENTENNIAL BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY. In honor of T. Enami’s 150th Birthday, the above is a one of a large SLIDE SHOW of his old images of long-gone JAPAN from the Okinawa_Soba Archives. These Feb 17, 2009 posts are in addition to the many other T. ENAMI slide, print, and stereoviews already uploaded to flickr in 2008. They can all be found in the COLLECTION and SETS dedicated to Enami’s photographic labors in Japan : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/collections/7215761388... Born in 1859, Enami, whose real name was NOBUKUNI ENAMI (or, in Japanese name order, ENAMI NOBUKUNI) was a “photographer's photographer” who since the 1880s plied his trade as an apprentice and assistant photographer in his youthful 20s, until he died at age 70 in 1929. His own studio, established in Yokohama in 1892 when he was 33 years old, passed to his son who carried on as a commercial photo processor and publisher of his father’s photographs. When the studio was “closed forever” by the fire-bombings of WW2, it had been in continual existence for 53 years—one of the longest running studios to come out of Japan’s old Meiji era. Recognized by NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC as one of the most artistic contributors to their Magazine during its first 100, a "Lost Archive" of his images is now here on flickr for the enjoyment and appreciation of all who love old images of Japan. Here’s a look at the outside of his Meiji-era studio : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/2413137039/ And an unusual view of workers on the inside : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/2494892753/ A better look at Enami and his photographic accomplishments are found at this Web page on the site dedicated to him (and don’t forget to scroll down for more pictures!) : www.t-enami.org/services Now, back to this flickr “Birthday Bash” for old Enami…
Weaving the tapestry of Northern life. Visiting the historic textile mills opens windows onto the technological innovations of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Always a joy to visit Yorkshire - this time with the Princess of Wales as she toured @AWHainsworth, a titan of the British textiles industry who took over her paternal family firm. They still produce the collar ‘mantles’ William Lupton & Co once made.
