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Contains 149 Results:

Item 1: Globe Woolen Mills, Utica, N.Y. Request Item

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 24
Scope and Contents

View of mill building with trees directly in front. 17.5 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Dates: 1842-2003
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 6524/006 P, ATHM Textile Industry Stereographs / Series I: Images of Mills, Alphabetical by Location / New York, Utica

Item 1: Saratoga Victory Mfg. Co., Victory Mills, N.Y. Request Item

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 25
Scope and Contents

n.d. View of trees and mill beyond. Scratched into image, "Victory, From old Gravel Bed". Photographed by C. H. Pease, Schuylerville, N.Y. 17.5 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Dates: 1842-2003
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 6524/006 P, ATHM Textile Industry Stereographs / Series I: Images of Mills, Alphabetical by Location / New York, Victory Mills

Item 1: Cotton mills of Waterford, N.Y., 1867 Request Item

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 26
Scope and Contents

D. A. Henry, Stereoscopic Views, Brattleboro, Vt. View of mills and city in the valley beyond. Written on front (ink) Waterford, near Troy, from Cohoes. 17.5 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Dates: 1867
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 6524/006 P, ATHM Textile Industry Stereographs / Series I: Images of Mills, Alphabetical by Location / New York, Waterford

Item 1: Eagle Mills, Watertown, N.Y. Request Item

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 27
Scope and Contents

n.d. Exterior view of mills, horse drawn carriages and workers in front. 17.5 x 8.5 cm

Format: Stereoptic print.

Dates: 1842-2003
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 6524/006 P, ATHM Textile Industry Stereographs / Series I: Images of Mills, Alphabetical by Location / New York, Watertown

Item 1: No. 1. White Oak Cotton Mills, Greensboro, N.C., 1909 Request Item

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents H.C. White Co., N. Bennington, Vt. Gelatin silver print. No. 1 in a set of 25 stereocards. Text on reverse: "This plant, located just North of the City of Greensboro, N.C., is the largest denim mill in the world. It is owned by the Proximity Manufacturing Company, which also operates another large denim plant at Greensboro, known as Proximity Mill. The two plants have an aggregate of 110,000 spindles and 3500 looms, and employ about 2500 operatives. They consume 60,000 bales of cotton...
Dates: 1909
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 6524/006 P, ATHM Textile Industry Stereographs / Series I: Images of Mills, Alphabetical by Location / North Carolina, Greensboro

Item 2: No. 2. Opening machines, White Oak Cotton Mills, Greensboro, N.C., 1907 Request Item

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents H.C. White Co., N. Bennington, Vt. Gelatin silver print. No. 2 in a set of 25 stereocards. Text on reverse: "The bales are opened, and the cotton is thrown into the large hoppers at the front of these machines, which open and loosen the fibres, work out lumps and remove the grosser impurities, such as dirt, leaf, seed and trash. A strong air draft carries off the dust and foreign particles, and lifts the cotton through trunks to the floor above. There are twenty-four lines of Opening...
Dates: 1907
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 6524/006 P, ATHM Textile Industry Stereographs / Series I: Images of Mills, Alphabetical by Location / North Carolina, Greensboro

Item 3: No. 3. Lapper machines, White Oak Cotton Mills, Greensboro, N.C., 1909 Request Item

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents H.C. White Co., N. Bennington, Vt. Gelatin silver print. No. 3 in a set of 25 stereocards. Text on reverse: "In these machines, known as Breaker and Finisher Lappers, more of the trash and impurities is beaten out of the cotton, and the lint is carried forward and wound into rolls of cotton batting known as laps. Several of these are doubled and drawn into one so as to get the weight of each yard as uniform as possible." The White Oak Cotton Mills made denim. 17.75 x 8.75 cm....
Dates: 1909
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 6524/006 P, ATHM Textile Industry Stereographs / Series I: Images of Mills, Alphabetical by Location / North Carolina, Greensboro

Item 4: No. 4. Card room, White Oak Cotton Mills, Greensboro, N.C., 1907 Request Item

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents H.C. White Co., N. Bennington, Vt. Gelatin silver print. No. 4 in a set of 25 stereocards. Text on reverse: "In these machines, known as Revolving Flat Top Cards, the cotton passes over revolving cylinders clothed with wire teeth, and the fibres are combed out and laid parallel with each other. They are delivered at the front of the machine as a filmy web, which is gathered together and formed into a soft downy ribbon or rope, known as card sliver. This is automatically coiled and delivered...
Dates: 1907
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 6524/006 P, ATHM Textile Industry Stereographs / Series I: Images of Mills, Alphabetical by Location / North Carolina, Greensboro

Item 5: No. 5. Drawing frames, White Oak Cotton Mills, Greensboro, N.C., 1907 Request Item

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents H.C. White Co., N. Bennington, Vt. Gelatin silver print. No. 5 in a set of 25 stereocards. Text on reverse: "To insure uniformity in weight, so that the yarn when spun shall run even, the card slivers are doubled and drawn out, redoubled and again drawn out, somewhat in the manner of a candy maker pulling taffy, only here the process is continuous. Six strands of the card sliver are fed in together at the back of the drawing frames, pulled out and delivered as one; and the process repeated....
Dates: 1907
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 6524/006 P, ATHM Textile Industry Stereographs / Series I: Images of Mills, Alphabetical by Location / North Carolina, Greensboro

Item 6: No. 6. Slubbers, White Oak Cotton Mills, Greensboro, N.C., 1909 Request Item

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents

H.C. White Co., N. Bennington, Vt. Gelatin silver print. No. 6 in a set of 25 stereocards. Text on reverse: "The sliver from the Drawing Frames is taken to machines called Slubbers, where again the fibres are drawn out, and the strand of Cotton, now much finer and known as slubber roving, is given a bit of twist to hold it together, and is wound on large bobbins." The White Oak Cotton Mills made denim. 17.75 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Dates: 1909
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 6524/006 P, ATHM Textile Industry Stereographs / Series I: Images of Mills, Alphabetical by Location / North Carolina, Greensboro

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