Item 20: No. 20. One of the Proximity Cotton Mill cooking classes, Greensboro, N.C., 1909

H.C. White Co., N. Bennington, Vt. Gelatin silver print. No. 20 in a set of 25 stereocards. Text on reverse: "At both the White Oak and the Proximity Villages, cooking classes are organized for the school girls, the older women and the girls who work in the mill. The Company maintains regularly organized welfare departments in charge of secretaries who are graduates in domestic science. Various clubs and classes are organized, parties and entertainments given, the sick visited, etc. On the Fourth of July, the entire population of both mill villages, numbering over 5,000 is given an annual picnic." The Proximity Manufacturing Company operated the Proximity and White Oak Cotton Mills, both of which made denim. 17.75 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.