Item 4: No. 4. Card room, White Oak Cotton Mills, Greensboro, N.C., 1907

H.C. White Co., N. Bennington, Vt. Gelatin silver print. No. 4 in a set of 25 stereocards. Text on reverse: "In these machines, known as Revolving Flat Top Cards, the cotton passes over revolving cylinders clothed with wire teeth, and the fibres are combed out and laid parallel with each other. They are delivered at the front of the machine as a filmy web, which is gathered together and formed into a soft downy ribbon or rope, known as card sliver. This is automatically coiled and delivered into cans." The White Oak Cotton Mills made denim. 17.75 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.