Box 5
Container
Contains 149 Results:
Item 14: No. 14. Weave 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. 14 in a set of 25 stereocards. Text on reverse: "The sheet of warp threads unwinds from the loom beam, receives the filling threads and is wound into a roll of cloth at the front of the loom. The White Oak Weave Room contains 2,000 looms. It is 904 feet long by 180 feet wide, (about four acres), and is the largest single weave room in the world. Overhead is the roof, which forms one vast skylight, being of what is known as...
Dates:
1909
Item 15: No. 15. Inspecting tables, 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. 15 in a set of 25 stereocards. Text on reverse: "Before going to the baling presses, every yard of denims made at the Proximity and White Oak Mills, passes under the vigilant eyes of the cloth inspectors, who mark as seconds and lay aside all pieces containing imperfections. This inspection is not a mere formality, but is conducted most carefully, and this department at both Proximity and White Oak Mills is specially located to get...
Dates:
1909
Item 16: No. 16. Boiler house, 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. 16 in a set of 25 stereocards. Text on reverse: "The Boiler House is equipped with three batteries of Heine Safety Water Tube Boilers, composed of thirteen double units or twenty-six boilers. There are two smoke stacks, each 176 feet high, built of radial fire brick. Over the boilers are installed a net work of pipes known as Fuel Economizers, in which the feed water is heated almost to boiling temperature by the waste gases...
Dates:
1909
Item 17: No. 17. Engine room, White Oak Cotton Mills, Greensboro, N.C., 1909
File — Box: 5, Folder: 28
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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
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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
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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
New Hampshire, Claremont
File — Box: 5, Folder: 1
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From the Series:
Stereoscopic images organized alphabetically by state, then by city/town.
Dates:
1842-2003