Tilton Textile Corporation Photographs
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Scope and Contents
Includes photographs of the opening room, drawing room, warping room, cloth room, boiler room, and machine shop in the El Paso Cotton Mills in the 1930s. Also includes photographs of spinning room, drawing frame, and a loom in the Lone Star Cotton Mills, circa 1945.
Dates
- 1939-1945
Language of Materials
Collection material in English, Spanish
Conditions Governing Access
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Conditions Governing Use
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.
Biographical / Historical
The Tilton Textile Corporation , located in New York City, acted as selling agents and textile converters. It owned most of the stock in and acted as selling agent for the Lone Star Cotton Mills Company, El Paso, Texas. Lone Star incorporated in 1924 under the name El Paso Cotton Mills Company; in 1940 it amended its charter and changed its name to Lone Star.
Extent
1 folders
Abstract
Interior views of the Lone Star Cotton Mills and its predecessor, the El Paso Cotton Mills, in El Paso, Texas.
Quantity:
1 file folder
Forms of Material:
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 16, 2017
- EAD encoding:
- Randall Miles, December 11, 2017
- Title
- Tilton Textile Corporation 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