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Description
In the Picker House at the Pepperell Mills, unidentified men break open cotton bales and feed them into the bale breaker machines to clean and fluff the material. From here the cotton will go on to the breaker picker and the finisher picker machines.
About This Item
- Title: Bale breakers at the Pepperell Mills, Biddeford ca. 1925
- Creation Date: circa 1925
- Subject Date: circa 1925
- Location: Biddeford, York County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 12.5 cm x 17.5 cm
- Local Code: 2816
- Collection: Archival Collections
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Milling machines
- Interiors
- Textile industry--Maine--Biddeford
- Textile mill workers--Maine--Biddeford
- Textile factories--Maine--Biddeford
- Pepperell Manufacturing Company
- Textile industry--Equipment and supplies--Maine--Biddeford
- Employees--Maine--Biddeford
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