Weaver, Annabessacook Mill, North Monmouth Maine, ca. 1910.Courtesy of the Maine Historic Preservation Commission.
Weaver, Annabessacook Mill, North Monmouth Maine, ca. 1910.Courtesy of the Maine Historic Preservation Commission.
This young woman worked in the Annabessacook Mill in North Monmouth, Maine. The mill specialized in woolen blankets and provided much needed work in rural Maine.
This weaver stands among the looms she tends and holds a shuttle which draws thread back and forth through the blanket.