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Textiles: cultivation and spinning of cotton. Engraving.

Textiles: a steam-driven baling machine for cotton. Engraving.

Textiles: an automatic spinning machine for cotton. Engraving by J. Scott after W. Ross.

1 print ; image and border 22.5 x 17.3 cm

Textiles: spinning machines and parts of a cotton plant. Engraving by D.Lizars.

1 print : engraving ; image 10.5 x 16.3 cm

Textiles: women and children working at large cotton manufacturing machines. Engraving.

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 28.8 x 36.7 cm

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Textiles: a steam-driven baling machine for cotton. Engraving.

Textiles: an automatic spinning machine for cotton. Engraving by J. Scott after W. Ross.

Textiles: spinning machines and parts of a cotton plant. Engraving by D.Lizars.

Textiles: women and children working at large cotton manufacturing machines. Engraving.

A cotton factory in which a man is feeding raw cotton into a willowing machine. Coloured lithograph after J.R. Barfoot.

Cotton plant (Gossypium species): flowering stem. Watercolour by J.E.F.

Textiles: carding and spinning of cotton. Engraving.

Textiles: a spreading machine for sorting cotton fibres. Engraving by J. Scott after W. Ross.

Textiles: two women, in ancient (Middle Eastern?) costume, spinning cotton with distaffs under their arms. Photolithograph after a drawing by F. M. P.

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Textiles: cultivation and spinning of cotton. Engraving.

Textiles: a steam-driven baling machine for cotton. Engraving.

Textiles: an automatic spinning machine for cotton. Engraving by J. Scott after W. Ross.

Textiles: spinning machines and parts of a cotton plant. Engraving by D.Lizars.

Textiles: women and children working at large cotton manufacturing machines. Engraving.

A cotton factory in which a man is feeding raw cotton into a willowing machine. Coloured lithograph after J.R. Barfoot.

Cotton plant (Gossypium species): flowering stem. Watercolour by J.E.F.

Textiles: carding and spinning of cotton. Engraving.

Textiles: a spreading machine for sorting cotton fibres. Engraving by J. Scott after W. Ross.

Textiles: two women, in ancient (Middle Eastern?) costume, spinning cotton with distaffs under their arms. Photolithograph after a drawing by F. M. P.

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