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The Bobbin Girl

A mill girl is winding shuttle bobbins, a boxful of which appears in the lower left-hand corner. There are other workers in the background of this weave room factory. The mill girl is operating the power loom.

Winslow Homer, “The Bobbin Girl ,” Mill Girls in Nineteenth-Century Print. Thread is wrapped around an empty bobbin, or “pirn.” The bobbins were then loaded into shuttles for installation on the looms.

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Lowell National Historical Park, Code: LOWE

Lowell National Historical Park, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Latitude: 42.6464996337891, Longitude: -71.3309020996094

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