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The braided rug is falling into a willow basket.

One girl is pulling on the lever to produce water, and the other girl is holding a cup up to the pump spout. They are dressed in long dresses with patterns. Sun bonnets are tied around their necks, and they are wearing caps.

Two women and two men are seated in front of their house.

Ida Hertel winding rag strips, which were sewn end to end, into balls. Later the balls would be woven into carpet strips.

A photograph taken of Henry Schumacher, Amana blacksmith, in August 1937. He is standing at the forge. There is an anvil in the foreground and a hammer on top of the anvil.

Preparing for carpet weaving using a shuttle stuffer to stuff rags into a shuttle for a semi-automatic loom. He winds the wheel with one hand, which brings the cloth through the two wheels and into the shuttle, while tamping the cloth down with the…

Emil Schaufuss weaving carpet with a semi-automatic loom. Shuttles stuffed with colored rag strips line the window sill behind him, with the shuttle stuffing machine, used to prepare the shuttles, in front of the loom.

Dorothy Trumpold weaving carpet strips on her hand loom.

A communal residence with a man, woman, and two children standing in front of it. One child is sitting on a toy horse. The dirt road in front of the house is visible. The three board fence separates the yard from the road.

Amana Woolen Mill complex including the Building Department looking NE from the south side of the Millrace.