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Photograph - Image, Queensland Institute for the Blind matting, cane and mattress workshop, August 1952
... Ellen McDevitt... mattress, whilst in the background Ellen McDevitt uses a portable... in the background Ellen McDevitt uses a portable sewing table to sew ...
Fives images of the workshop machinery used by the Queensland Industrial Institute for the Blind in the manufacture of various products.
1 - Pitched brooms being made by Stewart Jewell (left) and Jack Dollier (right).
2 - Unknown worker at a basket station making a cane basket, surrounded by finished examples.
3 - Snowy Willis oversees the operation of the machine that bores holes into brush heads.
4 - Unknown worker operating a coir matting machine. There were apparently 10 such machines in use at the time this image was taken.
5 - Snowy Willis checking the bobbins being filled from a giant spool. In the background are empty bobbins stacked against walls and filled bobbins on spool holders.
6 - Roy Anderson checks the wadding on a recently filled mattress, whilst in the background Ellen McDevitt uses a portable sewing table to sew the ends of a filled mattress.6 x B/W photographs of the workshop machinery used by the Queensland Industrial Institute for the BlindC2-657: 2, Brush shop - pitch set brooms being made by blind workers
C2-664: Basket shop - some of the various types of baskets made
C2-654: Snowy Willis. Brush shop - a semi automatic brush stock boring machine in operation.
C2-666: Matting shop - one of the ten coir matting looms in use. 1960.
C2-659: Matting shop - bobbin winder and bobbin bank.
C2-655: 15. 2 col wide. Bed shop wadding a fibre mattress. Also showing special sewing machine and movable table used in sewing the mouths of filled mattresses.queensland industrial institute for the blind, stuart jewell, jack dollier, snowy willis, roy anderson, ellen mcdevitt