3-102-236 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Bales of compressed cotton as received in Manchester..., 1909. 'and a small pile of cotton that has passed through the bale-breaking and blending processes, and is about to pass down the tube shown into the opening room. Bale to cloth: the transformation of "tree-wool"; the treatment of cotton from start to finish: special photographs taken by special permission at Messrs. Jones Brothers' Mills at Bedford Leigh.' From "Illustrated London News", 1909.