Item 2: No. 2. Opening machines, White Oak Cotton Mills, Greensboro, N.C., 1907

H.C. White Co., N. Bennington, Vt. Gelatin silver print. No. 2 in a set of 25 stereocards. Text on reverse: "The bales are opened, and the cotton is thrown into the large hoppers at the front of these machines, which open and loosen the fibres, work out lumps and remove the grosser impurities, such as dirt, leaf, seed and trash. A strong air draft carries off the dust and foreign particles, and lifts the cotton through trunks to the floor above. There are twenty-four lines of Opening Machines in the White Oak Mills." The White Oak Cotton Mills made denim. 17.75 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.