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Textiles: men working at large fabric printing machines. Engraving.

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

Crimean War, England: receiving lint to be sent to Scutari. Wood engraving by LEA. W.

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

Textiles: a weaving loom (above), with two shuttles and the upper frame (below). Engraving by A. Bell.

Sarawak: a girl spinning cotton into thread. Photograph.

Sarawak: a girl extracting the seeds of raw cotton in a cotton gin. Photograph.

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

Textiles: an automatic "mule" cotton spinning machine, side elevation. Engraving.

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

Textiles: cultivation and spinning of cotton. Engraving.

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

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

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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.