M0003220: "Carding Engine and Drawing Frame" / M0003220EB: Three men at a print works making paper

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Carding. Engine and drawing frame.

Above on plate: Photograph of a half tone print, after possibly an engraving, of a carding engine and drawing frame in a cotton mill. Below on plate: Photograph of an engraving, of three men working at a print works making paper. These images were reproduced from Baines, Sir Edward, History of the cotton manufacture in Great Britain: with a notice of its early history in the East, and in all the quarters of the globe ... and a view of the present state of the manufacture, London: H. Fisher, R. Fisher, and P. Jackson, 1835.

02 November 1932

2 photographs on 1 plate glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds copies of the publication depicted in the glass plate negative: EPB/B/11968

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.