Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Silk skeins on winding creels or swifts. The yarn is wound from the skein on to bobbins.
- Date
- 1937-03-18
- Archive
- U.S. National Archives (via Wikimedia Commons)
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- photograph
- Original size
- 2,137 × 3,000 pixels
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