Item 16: No. 16. Boiler house, White Oak Cotton Mills, Greensboro, N.C., 1909

H.C. White Co., N. Bennington, Vt. Gelatin silver print. No. 16 in a set of 25 stereocards. Text on reverse: "The Boiler House is equipped with three batteries of Heine Safety Water Tube Boilers, composed of thirteen double units or twenty-six boilers. There are two smoke stacks, each 176 feet high, built of radial fire brick. Over the boilers are installed a net work of pipes known as Fuel Economizers, in which the feed water is heated almost to boiling temperature by the waste gases escaping through the flue. The coal consumption is about one hundred tons daily." The White Oak Cotton Mills made denim. 17.75 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.