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  • Textiles: men working at large fabric printing machines. Engraving.
  • Textiles: spinning machines and parts of a cotton plant. Engraving by D.Lizars.
  • Crimean War, England: receiving lint to be sent to Scutari. Wood engraving by LEA. W.
  • Cotton plant (Gossypium species): flowering stem. Watercolour by J.E.F.
  • Textiles: a weaving loom (above), with two shuttles and the upper frame (below). Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Sarawak: a girl spinning cotton into thread. Photograph.
  • Sarawak: a girl extracting the seeds of raw cotton in a cotton gin. Photograph.
  • Textiles: two women, in ancient (Middle Eastern?) costume, spinning cotton with distaffs under their arms. Photolithograph after a drawing by F. M. P.
  • Textiles: an automatic "mule" cotton spinning machine, side elevation. Engraving.
  • Textiles: a steam-driven baling machine for cotton. Engraving.
  • Textiles: a three-quarter view of a power loom, with admiring visitors either side. Engraving, c.1862.
  • Textiles: a line of steam-driven cotton machines (above), a slasher-sizeing machine (below). Engraving.
  • Textiles: cultivation and spinning of cotton. Engraving.
  • Crimean War, England: women manufacturing lint for the army. Wood engraving by W. Sheeres, 1855.
  • Textiles: Crompton's belt-driven power loom, with a man standing by and a woman working. Watercolour.
  • Textiles: a cotton spinning wheel. Engraving by Eastgate.
  • Textiles: weaving. Etching by Bénard after Lucotte.
  • Textiles: a version of Crompton's mule. Engraving by J. W. Lowry, 1834, after T. Allom.
  • Cotton tree (Gossypium herbaceum): flower, fruits and seed. Coloured zincograph, c. 1853, after M. Burnett.
  • Textiles: weaving of cotton (top), the side elevation of a loom (below). Engraving.
  • Textiles: an automatic spinning machine for cotton. Engraving by J. Scott after W. Ross.
  • Textiles: a pair of large presses for block printing calico. Engraving by J. Carter after T. Allom, 1834.
  • Textiles: an automatic "mule" cotton spinning machine, plan. Engraving.
  • Textiles: a weaving loom (above), with two shuttles and the upper frame (below). Engraving.
  • Textiles: a roving machine for cotton manufacture. Engraving, c. 1858.
  • Farming: four farmyards. Engraving.
  • Towns, cotton plant, bird and rock formations of Persia, in separate plates. Line engraving after C. de Bruins, c.1704.
  • Textiles: women and children working at large cotton manufacturing machines. Engraving.
  • Textiles: a belt-driven version of Crompton's mule. Engraving, c.1858.
  • Textiles: an automatic scutching machine for cotton. Engraving by J. Scott after W. Ross.