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- Envelope Sent by Air Mail to Henry Ford from Pawtucket, Rhode Island for National Air Mail Week, May 1938 - Twenty years after the first regularly scheduled U.S. air mail service was established, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Postmaster General James A. Farley sponsored National Air Mail Week in 1938. Part celebration and part advertising, the event promoted the pricier service during the Great Depression. Cities throughout the country created their own special mail cachets and cancellations to mark the occasion.
- May 20, 1938
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Envelope Sent by Air Mail to Henry Ford from Pawtucket, Rhode Island for National Air Mail Week, May 1938
Twenty years after the first regularly scheduled U.S. air mail service was established, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Postmaster General James A. Farley sponsored National Air Mail Week in 1938. Part celebration and part advertising, the event promoted the pricier service during the Great Depression. Cities throughout the country created their own special mail cachets and cancellations to mark the occasion.
- Bergmann & Company Branch Line Cut-Out, Used at James S. Gary & Son Cotton Mill, Alberton, Maryland, 1882 - Short circuits and current overloads can overheat wires within electrical power and lighting systems, causing damage and possibly starting a fire. In the late 19th century, a cutout with a fuse or fuse-wire protected these systems--the fuse would burn out and break the electric circuit if a surge or overload occurred. Replacing the fuse returned the circuit to working order.
- 1882
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Bergmann & Company Branch Line Cut-Out, Used at James S. Gary & Son Cotton Mill, Alberton, Maryland, 1882
Short circuits and current overloads can overheat wires within electrical power and lighting systems, causing damage and possibly starting a fire. In the late 19th century, a cutout with a fuse or fuse-wire protected these systems--the fuse would burn out and break the electric circuit if a surge or overload occurred. Replacing the fuse returned the circuit to working order.
- Bergmann & Company Ceiling Rosette, Used at James S. Gary & Son Cotton Mill, Alberton, Maryland, 1882 -
- 1882
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Bergmann & Company Ceiling Rosette, Used at James S. Gary & Son Cotton Mill, Alberton, Maryland, 1882
- In the Great Spinning Room - 104,000 Spindles - Olympian Cotton Mills, Columbia, South Carolina, 1903 - Mill owners used the most up-to-date machines in their factories to increase production and cut labor costs, hiring children to tend some of them. A typical child's job was that of spinner, tending 6 or 7 rows of rotating bobbins and watching for breaks in the cotton--then quickly mending them. By 1900, laws in the North limited child labor to an extent, but the practice was widespread in the South, where much of the textile industry had moved.
- 1903
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In the Great Spinning Room - 104,000 Spindles - Olympian Cotton Mills, Columbia, South Carolina, 1903
Mill owners used the most up-to-date machines in their factories to increase production and cut labor costs, hiring children to tend some of them. A typical child's job was that of spinner, tending 6 or 7 rows of rotating bobbins and watching for breaks in the cotton--then quickly mending them. By 1900, laws in the North limited child labor to an extent, but the practice was widespread in the South, where much of the textile industry had moved.
- Workers outside a Factory, Most Likely Oakland Mill, Taunton, Massachusetts, circa 1890 -
- circa 1890
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Workers outside a Factory, Most Likely Oakland Mill, Taunton, Massachusetts, circa 1890
- Workers outside Oakland Mill, Taunton, Massachusetts, 1895-1897 -
- 1895-1897
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Workers outside Oakland Mill, Taunton, Massachusetts, 1895-1897
- Bergmann & Company Ceiling Rosette, Used at James S. Gary & Son Cotton Mill, Alberton, Maryland, 1882 -
- 1882
- Collections - Artifact
Bergmann & Company Ceiling Rosette, Used at James S. Gary & Son Cotton Mill, Alberton, Maryland, 1882
- Oakland Mill in Taunton, Massachusetts, 1896 -
- 1896
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Oakland Mill in Taunton, Massachusetts, 1896
- Bergmann & Company Ceiling Rosette, Used at James S. Gary & Son Cotton Mill, Alberton, Maryland, 1882 -
- 1882
- Collections - Artifact
Bergmann & Company Ceiling Rosette, Used at James S. Gary & Son Cotton Mill, Alberton, Maryland, 1882
- Bergmann & Company Ceiling Rosette, Used at James S. Gary & Son Cotton Mill, Alberton, Maryland, 1882 -
- 1882
- Collections - Artifact
Bergmann & Company Ceiling Rosette, Used at James S. Gary & Son Cotton Mill, Alberton, Maryland, 1882