Box 5
Container
Contains 149 Results:
Item 17: No. 17. Engine room, White Oak Cotton Mills, Greensboro, N.C., 1909
File — Box: 5, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents
H.C. White Co., N. Bennington, Vt. Gelatin silver print. No. 17 in a set of 25 stereocards. Text on reverse: "The Engine Room of the White Oak Cotton Mills is the largest and best equipped individual power station in the South. It contains four enormous Steam Engines, each of 2,500 horse power capacity, giving the station an aggregate capacity of 10,000 horse power. Connected with each engine is a large electric generator. The four generators are connected at the switchboard, where the power...
Dates:
1909
Item 18: No. 18. White Oak Cotton Mill School, Greensboro, N.C., 1909
File — Box: 5, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents
H.C. White Co., N. Bennington, Vt. Gelatin silver print. No. 18 in a set of 25 stereocards. Text on reverse: "This school was built by the White Oak Cotton Mills at a cost of $25,000.00, and is maintained by them as a graded school, for the exclusive benefit of children of the operatives, who are given a free education. The present faculty numbers nine teachers. Special teachers are employed for instruction in manual training, singing, cooking and sewing. The Company also maintains a...
Dates:
1909
Item 19: No. 19. Proximity Kindergarten, Greensboro, N.C., 1909
File — Box: 5, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents
H.C. White Co., N. Bennington, Vt. Gelatin silver print. No. 19 in a set of 25 stereocards. Text on reverse: "In connection with its schools, but in a separate building and under the charge of trained kindergartners, the Proximity Manufacturing Company maintains a kindergarten for the children not yet of school age. Here the little fellows spend their mornings singing songs, playing games, and having their nimble fingers trained. At Christmas, trees are decorated at the schools and...
Dates:
1909
Item 20: No. 20. One of the Proximity Cotton Mill cooking classes, Greensboro, N.C., 1909
File — Box: 5, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents
H.C. White Co., N. Bennington, Vt. Gelatin silver print. No. 20 in a set of 25 stereocards. Text on reverse: "At both the White Oak and the Proximity Villages, cooking classes are organized for the school girls, the older women and the girls who work in the mill. The Company maintains regularly organized welfare departments in charge of secretaries who are graduates in domestic science. Various clubs and classes are organized, parties and entertainments given, the sick visited, etc. On the...
Dates:
1909
Item 21: No. 21. One of the Proximity Cotton Mill sewing classes, Greensboro, N.C., 1909
File — Box: 5, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents
H.C. White Co., N. Bennington, Vt. Gelatin silver print. No. 21 in a set of 25 stereocards. Text on reverse: "Sewing classes are organized at both mills. In addition to the plain sewing, instruction is given in knitting, embroidery, drawn-work, crocheting and other forms of needle work. Many of the girls are enabled to make their own dresses. Classes are also organized in basketry and raffia work, stenciling and rug-making. Each spring, the company encourages the beautifying of the homes by...
Dates:
1909
Item 22: No. 22. Boys' Welfare Club at the White Oak Cotton Mills, Greensboro, N.C., 1909
File — Box: 5, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents
H.C. White Co., N. Bennington, Vt. Gelatin silver print. No. 22 in a set of 25 stereocards. Text on reverse: "Separately organized welfare work is maintained for the boys at the White Oak Cotton Mills, in charge of a young man employed for this purpose. A club house has been fitted up, and every night the boys and young men assemble. There are no dues, everything in all the clubs and classes being entirely free. There are reading and game rooms, a library and a gymnasium. A debating club has...
Dates:
1909
Item 23: No. 23. White Oak Cotton Mill band, Greensboro, N.C., 1909
File — Box: 5, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents
H.C. White Co., N. Bennington, Vt. Gelatin silver print. No. 23 in a set of 25 stereocards. Text on reverse: "The Proximity and White Oak Cotton Mills each has its own Brass Band, the members of which are all operatives in the mills. The instruments, which are of the finest make, were furnished by the mills. A band master is also employed by the Company. These bands are among the finest in the State, and notwithstanding the limited opportunities for practice their performances are most...
Dates:
1909
Item 24: No. 24. White Oak Cotton Mill Base Ball Team, Greensboro, N.C., 1909
File — Box: 5, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents
H.C. White Co., N. Bennington, Vt. Gelatin silver print. No. 24 in a set of 25 stereocards. Text on reverse: "The Proximity and White Oak Mills each has its Base Ball Team. The members of the team all work in the mills. They have their managers and arrange games with teams from neighboring towns, their exhibitions being most creditable. The company provides a ball park at each mill, and every Saturday afternoon during the spring and Summer months a match game is held." 17.75 x 8.75 cm....
Dates:
1909
Item 25: No. 25. Officers and superintendents of the Proximity and White Oak Cotton Mills, Greensboro, N.C., 1909
File — Box: 5, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents
H.C. White Co., N. Bennington, Vt. Gelatin silver print. No. 25 in a set of 25 stereocards. Text on reverse: "Left to right: seated; Bernard M. Cone, Secretary and Treasurer, Julius W. Cone, Vice President, Ceasar Cone, President, Robert G. Campbell, General Superintendent. Standing: John G. Campbell, Superintendent of White Oak plant, James A. Bangle, Superintendent of Proximity plant. The Proximity Manufacturing Company was organized in 1895 by Messrs. Moses H. and Ceasar Cone. It started...
Dates:
1909
Item 1: A Southern Textile Mill, Raleigh, N.C.
File — Box: 5, Folder: 29
Scope and Contents
Prior to 1915. (Geography Unit No. 13) Keystone View Co., copyright H.C. White Co., Meadville, Pa. View of cotton growing in the field and mill beyond. 17.5 x 9 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Dates:
1842-2003