Cotton Collection (page 8)

Postcard booklet, little child sitting on cotton, USA
Postcard booklet, little child sitting on a pile of cotton, Dixieland, USA. Date: 1937

Postcard booklet, Greetings from Dixieland, USA, showing a cotton picker asleep with his head inside a basket. Date: 1937

Curtis British Entomology Plate 741
Hemiptera: *Tingis oxyacanthae Curtis, probably = Physatocheila dumetorum [Plant: Onopordium acanthium (Cotton Thistle)] Date: 1824-39

ON A PLANTATION
An idyllic scene on a cotton plantation in the southern United States where masters and workers co-exist happily 1864

Two Black Children in a Cotton Field

On the Mississippi, Loading Cotton Date: 1860

Persian Pattern

Lancashire, England - Textile Cotton Mill worker and looms. Date: circa 1905

Woman with snoring husband
A woman sits up in bed with cotton wool in her ears, kept awake by her snoring husband. Date: 1960s

Group on rear verandah, Quex Park
Group of patients and one nurse on the rear verandah, overlooking the gardens, Quex Park. This verandah ran along the back of the Museum buildings and was used as a sheltered outdoor space in summer

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Young girl of Varengeville, near Dieppe. The bonnet is of cotton toile.. Handcolored fashion plate illustration from Louis-Marie Lantes Costumes des femmes du Pays de Caux, 1827/1885

Cotton Spinning Machine 1862
Cotton Manufacture in the International Exhibition. Platts Self-Acting Mule, or the Cotton Spinning Machine. Date: 1862

HANDY HOUSEHOLD ITEMS
Every well-stocked household should have handy packs of matches, safety pins, once- use stocking pencils, etc. Date: 1930s

INDIAN COTTON HARVEST
Men and women gathering up the cotton harvest together in India. Date: 1930s

COTTON MILL 1902
Women work at the winding frames Date: 1902

COTTON WEAVING 1902
Women weave at looms. Date: 1902

Bleaching cotton
Using wash-wheels for dyeing and bleaching cotton Date: 1830s

FALL / BICHON FRISE / 1990
CHAMPOIN SULYKA PUZZLE Owned by Dunger. Date: 1990

COTTON CLEANED / INDONESIA
Cleaning cotton in the village of Sembalum, half-way up the volcanic mountain of Rinjani, on the island of Lombok, Indonesia. Date: 1932

DEAN MILLS / LANCASHIRE
The doubling room at Dean Mills, Lancashire, a cotton mill. Date: 1851

Fund Committee in Coventry 1861
Meeting with distressed ribbon weavers, Relief Fund Committee was held in the kitchen of St. Marys Hall, Coventry, due to the cotton famine. Date: 1861

Great Exhibition, cotton machines 1851
A perspective view, looking West, of Messrs. Hibbert and Platts cotton machines and Messrs. Hick and Sons high- pressure steam-engine and driving gear. Date: 1851

Cotton machines at the Great Exhibition 1851
A perspective view, looking East, of Messrs. Hibbert and Platts cotton machines amd Messrs. Hick and Sons high- pressure steam-engine and driving gear. Date: 1851

TEAGLE
A teagle used in the cotton mills of Lancashire to facilitate passage from one level to another Date: circa 1850

Power Loom Weaving
Interior of cotton mill: power loom weaving. Man and woman tend machine. Date: 1835

Cotton Mule Spinning 1835
Interior of cotton factory: mule spinning, Lancashire, child sweeps inside moving machine. Date: 1835

Cotton Carding Machinery
Interior of cotton mill: girls and women tend carding, drawing and roving machinery. Date: 1835

LOADING COTTON, USA
Cotton loaded on a Mississippi steamboat, at New Orleans Date: 1886

COTTON FLEET, INDIA
Cotton fleet on the Ganges, casting off from Mirzapore in the early morning Date: 1862

Khangaon cotton market, India 1870
Khangaon cotton market, West Berar, India. Date: 1870

Lancashire cotton industry 1844
Women at work in a power-loom factory, Lancashire Date: 1844

The Cotton Tree, Sierra Leone
A man burns leaves beneath the Cotton Tree, Freetown, Sierra Leone, Africa. Over 500 years old, this tree is a treasured symbol of the city

Liverpool - The Cotton Exchange Building. Date: 1912

Scene on the Cumberland River, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Date: 1911

Textile swatches
A selection of seven textile samples which were found loose with in the volume and not associated with a particular page. Date: 1887-1894

Windsor armchair and ladder-back armchair
Windsor armchair with a high-back double-bow and fleur-de-lys motif in the pierced central splat, made from beech, cherry and willow, with an elm seat

Windsor armchair, detail
Windsor armchair with a continuous arm and back bow made from ash with an elm seat, possibly manufactured in Yealmpton, Devon, c.1820. Date: c.1820

Windsor side chair with hoop back made from ash with a sycamore seat, painted to imitate bamboo, possibly manufactured in Yealmpton, Devon, c.1820. Date: c.1820

Windsor side chair with hoop back, detail
Windsor side chair with hoop back made from ash with a sycamore seat, painted to imitate bamboo, possibly manufactured in Yealmpton, Devon, c.1820. Date: c.1820

Spindle-back armchair, detail
Triple-row spindle-back armchair made of ash with a rush seat, stamped J.RIDING, possibly manufactured by John Riding in Macclesfield, Cheshire, c.1818. Date: c. 1818

Ladder-back side chair, detail
Ladder-back side chair, with three decoratively curved & pierced ladders in the back, made from ash with a rush seat, probably made in Lincolnshire, c.1780-1820. Date: c.1780-1820

Ladder-back armchair, detail
Ladder-back armchair square cabriole front legs made from ash, with a rush seat, probably made by the Ashton family of chairmakers from Louth, Spilsby and Alford, Lincolnshire, c. 1780-1820

Enormous cotton tree, Sierra Leone, West Africa
Cotton tree with enormous buttresses, historic symbol of Freetown, capital city of Sierra Leone, West Africa. Date: circa 1908

Ring Spinning. Manufacturing process of cotton yarn. 19th ce
Textile Industry. 19th century. Ring Spinning. Manufacturing process of cotton yarn. Women working in the roving. Colored engraving

Barnes Home, Heaton Mersey
An aerial view of the Barnes Home - an Industrial School for Boys on Didsbury Road, Heaton Mersey, Cheshire. Its construction was financed by Manchester cotton baron Robert Barnes. Date: 1930s

China - Shanghai - Huxinting Teahouse (Huxinting Chashi)
Huxinting Teahouse (Huxinting Chashi), Shanghai, China. The pavilion was built in 1784 by cotton merchants as a brokerage house. In 1855 it became, and remains, a quintessential Chinese teahouse

Lancashire cotton mill worker
A Lancashire cotton worker wrapped in shawls and wearing clogs walking along a cobbled street in Oldham

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