Textile-Working Equipment inside Plymouth Carding Mill (now Gunsolly Carding Mill), Greenfield Village, 1940

THF243110 / Textile-Working Equipment inside Plymouth Carding Mill (now Gunsolly Carding Mill), Greenfield Village, 1940

Artifact Overview

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

01 April 1940

Creators

Collection Title

Location

Not on exhibit to the public.

Object ID

P.O.19977

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)
Linen (Material)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 7.5 in
Width: 11 in

Keywords	United States, Michigan, Dearborn Photographic prints Photographs Textile working equipment Looms (Textile tools) Open-air museums Gunsolly Carding Mill Henry Ford (Organization). Greenfield Village

Artifact
Gunsolly Carding Mill
John Gunsolly operated this water-powered carding mill as well as a saw and cider mill on the Middle Rouge River near Plymouth, Michigan, beginning in the 1850s. Area farmers brought their wool to this mill to have it carded (combed) so it could be spun into thread.