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Amana map 1

Amana map 1

Hand-drawn map of Amana.
Middle Amana, Lily Lake, Amana, Mill Race, Highway 151 and Homestead, Iowa, Spring 1990

Middle Amana, Lily Lake, Amana, Mill Race, Highway 151 and Homestead, Iowa, Spring 1990

Amana Woolen Mill

Amana Woolen Mill

800 48th Ave., Amana, Iowa
Ida Hertel winding rag strips

Ida Hertel winding rag strips

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

Dorothy Trumpold weaving

Dorothy Trumpold weaving carpet strips on her hand loom.
Emil Schaufuss at his loom

Emil Schaufuss at his loom

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.
Emil Schaufuss, carpet weaver

Emil Schaufuss, carpet weaver

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…
Woman braiding rug

Woman braiding rug

The braided rug is falling into a willow basket.
Amana Woolen Mill

Amana Woolen Mill

Amana Woolen Mill complex including the Building Department looking NE from the south side of the Millrace.
Amana Refrigeration, Inc. 140.4

Amana Refrigeration, Inc. 140.4

Photograph taken from the North side of the Millrace, facing south. The Amana Refrigeration, Inc. plant is behind the Millrace in the former Middle Amana Woolen Mill building.
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