Box 5
Container
Contains 149 Results:
Item 1: Saratoga Victory Mfg. Co., Victory Mills, N.Y.
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
Item 1: Cotton mills of Waterford, N.Y., 1867
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
Item 1: Eagle Mills, Watertown, N.Y.
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
Item 1: No. 1. 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. 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
Item 2: No. 2. Opening machines, White Oak Cotton Mills, Greensboro, N.C., 1907
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
Item 3: No. 3. Lapper machines, 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. 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
Item 7: No. 7. Speeders, 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. 7 in a set of 25 stereocards. Text on reverse: "The large bobbins of roving from the Slubbers are taken to other machines known as Speeders, and are unwound through the machine, again drawn out finer and finer, and re-wound on smaller bobbins. The strand of cotton known as speeder roving is now ready to be taken to the spinning room for the final draft and twist necessary to turn it into yarn." The White Oak Cotton Mills made...
Dates:
1909
Item 9: No. 9. Spoolers, 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. 9 in a set of 25 stereocards. Text on reverse: "Two kinds of yarn are delivered at the spinning frames, known as warp and filling, which make respectively the lengthwise and crosswise threads of the cloth. The filling is in its completed form ready for the loom, the warp must first be gotten into shape for dyeing and then arranged in parallel rows or sheets of thread for weaving. The first of these processes is spooling, and...
Dates:
1909
Item 10: No. 10. Warpers, 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. 10 in a set of 25 stereocards. Text on reverse: "The spools of warp yarn are placed in large wooden racks or creels from which they can conveniently unwind. The separate threads are drawn through little wires in the warpers, and are gathered into a bunch or rope of threads, which is wound in a large cylindrical ball known as a warp. If any thread breaks while passing through the warper, the little wire drops and stops the machine....
Dates:
1909
Item 11: No. 11. Dyehouse, 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. 11 in a set of 25 stereocards. Text on reverse: "Here the warps, after being boiled and softened to enable the dye to penetrate, are passed through the indigo vats. Several runs are made to get the beautiful depth of color. The White Oak Dyehouse is equipped with one hundred indigo vats, and is one of the best-lighted and cleanest-kept dyehouses in the world." The White Oak Cotton Mills made denim. 17.75 x 8.75 cm....
Dates:
1909