Ted Stone Collection of Lone Star Cotton Mills Photographs
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Scope and Contents
Include aerial and ground-level views of the exterior of the Lone Star Cotton Mills plant in El Paso, Texas. Also includes interior views featuring drawing frames, ring spinning frames, warping machines, the winding room, and the weaving room. The photographs were taken circa 1945.
Dates
- 1940-1945
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
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.
Biographical / Historical
Lone Star was first founded as the El Paso Cotton Mills Company in 1923; in 1932 the company was reorganized as Lone Star Cotton Mills, Inc. The company ceased production after 1980.
Extent
1 folders
Abstract
Interior and exterior photographs of the Lone Star Cotton Mills in El Paso, Texas.
Quantity:
1 file folder
Forms of Material:
5: Gelatin silver print, photographs.
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, October 11, 2017
- EAD encoding:
- Randall Miles, December 11, 2017
- Bags
- Burlap
- Business enterprises
- Business records
- Cotton
- Cotton manufacture
- Drawing, Powered -- Drawing frame
- Dyes and dyeing
- El Paso (Tex.)
- Factoring services industry
- Legal documents
- Manufacturers' agents
- Spinning -- Powered -- Spinning frame, ring
- Spinning machinery
- Swatches (Dry-goods)
- Tents
- Textile fabrics
- Textile factories
- Textile industry
- Textile machinery
- Textile mills -- Spinning room
- Textile mills -- Warping room
- Textile mills -- Weave room
- United States
- Winding machines
- Women employees
- Women textile workers
- Title
- Ted Stone Collection of Lone Star Cotton Mills Photographs
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by R. Miles
- Date
- December 11, 2017
- 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