Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. The exhausted warp. The operator is preparing to remove the beam end harness in order to set the loom in operation again. The ends of a new warp must be entered through the harness or twisted on to the "from" ends remaining in the harness.
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- 1937-03-18
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- U.S. National Archives (via Wikimedia Commons)
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- photograph
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- 3,000 × 2,144 pixels
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