Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Sock production

Sock production

Original - Advertisement for a late nineteenth century hosiery firm that depicts its factory floor with workers using knitting machines. Published 1886.

Reason

An attractive piece of nineteenth century commercial artwork that gives several views of sock production, both by hand and in a factory setting. Very high resolution. Restored version of File:Stocking factory.jpg. Compressed courtesy copy available at File:Stocking factory2 courtesy copy.jpg for viewers with slower connection speeds.

Articles this image appears in

Knitting machine, Hosiery

Creator

Cooper, Wells & Co.

• Support as nominator --Hamlet, Prince of Trollmark (talk) 03:11, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
• Support — Jake Wartenberg 04:16, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
• Support GerardM (talk) 07:39, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
• Support Sasata (talk) 23:36, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
• Neutral I really like this picture. It's neat. But I'm not sure it has enough EV in the articles. Makeemlighter (talk) 06:14, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Promoted File:Stocking factory2.jpg ~ ωαdεstεr16_«talk^stalk» 06:16, 9 May 2009 (UTC)