Item 67: Weaving Room (2,400 Looms), great Olympian Cotton Mills, Columbia, South Carolina, 1905

Weaving Room (2,400 Looms), great Olympian Cotton Mills, Columbia, South Carolina. Black and white image of a large weaving room shown with many workers, both male and female, standing at the looms. These are bobbin-changing cam looms; note the box of bobbins in the lower right foreground. Fifty years ago little was known of the enormous cotton crop of America manufactured into cloth in Southern States. While the domestic and foreign shipments are still immense in volume, the South is developing more and more important manufacturing enterprises. Shown here is the large scale on which South Carolina carries on textile weaving. New York: Underwood & Underwood. 17.5 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.