Tilton Textile Corporation Photographs
-
No requestable containers
-
Ask a Question
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
Creator
- Tilton Textile Corporation (creator, Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English, Spanish
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
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 Cotton Mills. The company ceased production around 1980.
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 227 Ives Hall Tower Road Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183 kheelref@cornell.edu https://catherwood.library.cornell.edu/kheel/
- Compiled by:
- R. Miles, October 16, 2017
- EAD encoding:
- Randall Miles, December 11, 2017
- Cotton manufacture
- El Paso (Tex.)
- El Paso Cotton Mills Company (El Paso, Tex.)
- El Paso Photo Company
- Heire Safety Boiler Company
- Lone Star Cotton Mills, Inc.
- Machine shops
- Male employees
- Saco-Lowell Shops
- Spinning machinery
- Steam-boilers
- Textile factories
- Textile machinery
- Textile workers
- Weaving
- Women employees
Source
- American Textile History Museum (Organization)
- 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