[Motorized magazine looms]

[Motorized magazine looms]

Photograph

Lewis W. Hine

Maker
American, 1874–1940

[Motorized magazine looms]

ca. 1937
Gelatin silver print
11.8 x 17.0 cm.
Gift of the Photo League Lewis Hine Memorial Committee
Inscriptions verso-(rubberstamp) "Property of National Research Project of the
W.P.A. Room 917 - 12S. 12th St. Philadelphia, Pa. Not To Be Reproduced
Before Jan. 1938." "Photo-study by Lewis W. Hine for National Research
Project of WPA 12S. 12th St. Philadelphia, Pa."
(in pencil) "346"

A row of magazine looms, individually motorized, is a type introduced into Peterson a little over a year ago. There are perhaps not over three hundred of them in the city. These looms are readily available the second-hand market. They are run at about the same speed as..
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