Box 1

Photographs included depict : picker rooms, a modern one-process picker, finish pickers in an old picker room, overhead cleaners and duct humidification, modern spinning rooms with individual motors, spinning room with 4- frame motor drive, typical spinning room shaft alley (belt alley).

Interior view - Kitson Machine Co., Decatur, AL, mill

Interior view, Passaic Cotton Mills, Passaic, NJ

Interior view of one-process Whitin picker machine.

Gelatin silver print, [?; original 1920-25]. Probably a copy print. Image depicts the interior of a spinning room in an unidentified mill, showing the shaft or belt alley where the belts run from each spinning frame up to the ceiling. Spinning frames made by Pettee Machine Works. Written on reverse: "Typical Spinning Room Shaft Alley (belt alley) in the Early 1920s." 20.5 x 25.5 cm.

Gelatin silver print, [?; original 1920-25]. Probably a copy print. Image depicts the Interior of a spinning room in an unidentified mill, showing cotton spinning frames made by Whitin Machine Works. Room is very large. Written on reverse: "Spinning Room with 4-Frame Motor Drive." 25.5 x 20.75 cm.

Coxe Studio, High Grade Photography, Greenville, S.C., photographer. Gelatin silver print, [?; original 194-?]. Probably a copy print. Image depicts the interior of a spinning room in an unidentified mill, showing cotton spinning frames made by Whitin Machine Works. Written on reverse: "Modern Spinning Room with Individual Motors, Overhead Cleaners, and Duct Humidification." 25.5 x 20.5 cm.