A nineteenth-century water-driven carding machine. Right: Diagram explaining mechanical carding. Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts, an open-air museum, which preserves various buildings from around New England, representing a small town in the northeastern United States at 1830 after the Industrial Revolution has had a major effect upon farm and village life. [Click on these images to enlarge them.]
Photographs by George P. Landow. You may use these images without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the photographer and (2) link your document to this URL in a web document or cite the Victorian Web in a print one.]
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27 August 2014