# Lace Making (Curtains) / Helmets (Making War Equipment) / Yellowstone Park / New York City / Tractor Plowing and Seeding and Manual Harvesting

Lace Making (Curtains) / Helmets (Making War Equipment) / Yellowstone Park / New York City / Tractor Plowing and Seeding and Manual Harvesting Produced: 1918 Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. “Mending the drop stitches.” Man operating weaving machinery in factory interior. “Unrolling the woven curtains. When 70 yards have been woven in one continuous length it is taken off the roller.” Men remove length from the machines, carry them off. “Searching for drop stitches.” Woman inspects lengths - women at Singer sewing machines. “Finishing. The selvage of the curtain, woven to prevent damage to the lace during its manufacture, is now trimmed off the curtains scalloped and over locked in one operation.” Women performing the above operations - men operating various machines which perform the operations described below. “Washing and bleaching. Two miles of curtain are sewed together, travel through a series of porcelain rings into boiling vats, washed and rinsed and dried in a whizzer.” “Dressing consists of starching, assorting according to width, stretching and ironing.” “Finally the finished curtains are folded and paired and ready for shipment.” \[1918\] b. “The problem that confronts the maker of war equipment is quantity and fortunately quality is our long suit, for Uncle Sam has a reputation for delivering large orders promptly. Witness, in these pictures, American methods of painting and assembling helmets…

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1918
- By: National Archives
- Genres: War, Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/fc-fc-32)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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