ATHM Textile Industry Stereographs
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Scope and Contents
This collection is divided into three series:
I: Images of Mills, Alphabetical by Location. Consists entirely of stereoscopic images arranged alphabetically by state, then by ciy/town. Most of the images are of mills, both interior and exterior views. Also includes views from around the mill towns.
II: General Images Organized by Textile Related Subject. Consists of a mix of about 40% stereoscopic images and 60% postcards. These images are arranged by subject based on ATHM numerically coded "TT" local subject headings. The subject headings have been kept, but the "TT" codings have been dropped. Most of the images depict the production of cotton and wool, though there is a section on flax and other fibers. Subjects include both fiber production, growing wool and cotton, and processing into cloth.
III: Pacific Mills Images Organized by Textile Related Subject. Consists entirely of stereoscopic images arranged by subject, the same as Series II. The images depict the production of cotton and wool textiles, with subjects focusing on the production of cloth.
A stereoscopic viewer is included in the collection in order to view the stereoscopic images in 3D.
Dates
- 1842-2003
Language of Materials
Collection material in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian
Conditions Governing Access
Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference archivist for access to these materials.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.
Extent
6.33 cubic feet
Abstract
Stereoscopic photographs and postcards show the exteriors, interiors, machinery, and workers of textile mills. Also showing the processes in making textiles from raw fibers.
Quantity:
6.3 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Photographs, postcards, stereographs.
General
- Contact Information:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives Martin P. Catherwood Library 227 Ives Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183 kheel_center@cornell.edu http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/kheel-center
- Compiled by:
- R. Miles, March 15, 2018
- EAD encoding:
- Randall Miles, March 28, 2018
Processing Information
This collection has been kept in the order it was in when received from the American Textile History Museum. The subject groupings in Series II and Series III are based on the local subject headings defined by ATHM. These subject headings were coded numerically, TT1 through TT 63. The Kheel Center has not kept the "TT" designations and has only retained the subject headings themselves.
The descriptive hierarchy follows the standard box/folder/item scheme. However, in the case of this collection the "folder" level represents a section of the box, rather than an actual physical folder.
- Title
- ATHM Textile Industry Stereographs
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by R. Miles
- Date
- March 28, 2018
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Revision Statements
- 02/23/2024: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
Repository Details
Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository
227 Ives Hall
Ithaca NY 14853