Louisville Textile Company Photographs
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Dates
- 1938
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Biographical / Historical
The Louisville Cotton Mills was established in 1888. By 1900 this spinning mill employed two hundred and forty employees on fifteen thousand ring and mule spindles. The Louisville Textile company was incorporated in 1919 by the directors of the Louisville Cotton Mills. The new company operated forty looms in the production of marquisette. In 1931, the two merged and continued operation under the name of Louisville Textile Co.. In 1940 they operated twenty-six thousand spindles and one hundred and seventy-four looms, manufacturing hoisery yarn and cotton and rayon cloth used for draperies, bedspreads, and upholstery. The Lousiville Cotton Mills closed in 1967.
Extent
0.61 cubic feet
Language of Materials
English
Custodial History
American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of Louisville Textiles.
- Boy Scouts of America
- Carding
- Chicago (Ill.)
- Cincinnati (Ohio)
- Cotton
- Cotton manufacture.
- Cotton picking
- Dyes and dyeing
- Fair Store (Cincinnati, Ohio)
- Looms.
- Louisville (Ky.)
- New Orleans (La.)
- Spinning machinery
- Textile fabrics.
- Textile factories
- Textile industry.
- Textile machinery
- Textile workers.
- Winding machines
- Women textile workers
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository
227 Ives Hall
Ithaca NY 14853