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76.40.1 96 dpi watermarked.jpg
A photograph showing Barber-Colman's overhead belt drive, a system employed before each machine had individual motors.

2005.34.155b 96 dpi watermarked.jpg
This aerial view depicting Rockford's east side (right) split from the west side (left) by the Rock River, shows the Barber-Colman complex in the lower left portion. The Reed Chatwood Company purchased the textile machinery division of Barber-Colman…

2009.39.1 96 dpi watermarked.jpg
This black & white photograph depicts a Barber-Colman event at the Faust Hotel, 618-634 E. State at 4th St., which opened in 1929. The dance floor is empty with a large group of people standing towards the back. Along the dance floor are four tables…

2007.34.158a 96 dpi watermarked.jpg
A black and white photograph showing a young, bespectacled Howard Colman (1873-1942) on the day he married Bertha Maguire, June 17, 1902. In Jon Lundin's book Master Inventor (2006, p. 336), Lundin states, "After a honeymoon in Alaska, the Colmans…

89.179.5d 96 dpi watermarked.jpg
A woman works with spools of thread at the Barber-Colman Company.

89.179.5f 96 dpi watermarked.jpg
This woman works at a textile machine at the Barber-Colman Company in the 1960s.

2010.15.15 96 dpi watermarked.jpg
A professional photograph of a Barber-Colman Fishermans Knotter. Information (Negative No. Ex. 7083; Date 10-31-63; Taken By Al Thibodeau; Witnessed By Ralph Andres) is listed on the photo's front bottom right portion.
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