Images Dated 27th April 2005

Loom Worker

A man smoking a pipe while at work on a large loom during the eighteenth century. He is holding the shuttle in his hand and operating the machine with foot pedals. The various working parts of the loom are numbered. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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