Item 3: No. 3. Lapper machines, White Oak Cotton Mills, Greensboro, N.C., 1909

H.C. White Co., N. Bennington, Vt. Gelatin silver print. No. 3 in a set of 25 stereocards. Text on reverse: "In these machines, known as Breaker and Finisher Lappers, more of the trash and impurities is beaten out of the cotton, and the lint is carried forward and wound into rolls of cotton batting known as laps. Several of these are doubled and drawn into one so as to get the weight of each yard as uniform as possible." The White Oak Cotton Mills made denim. 17.75 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.