Box 5
Container
Contains 149 Results:
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 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 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 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 4: No. 4. Card room, 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. 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
Item 5: No. 5. Drawing frames, 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. 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
Item 6: No. 6. Slubbers, 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. 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
Item 8: No. 8. Spinning frames, 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. 8 in a set of 25 stereocards. Text on reverse: "The roving from the Speeders is placed on the Spinning Frames and now undergoes its final draft as it passes through the spinning rolls. The attenuated fibres are then twisted firmly together by the action of the spindles which turn at a speed of about 10,000 revolutions per minute. The yarn thus formed is wound on bobbins and is ready to be dyed and weaved." The White Oak Cotton...
Dates:
1909
Item 12: No. 12. Beaming frames, 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. 12 in a set of 25 stereocards. Text on reverse: "After being dyed, the warps are washed and then passed through drying machinery, from which they are delivered in coils. These are brought to the beaming frames, where they are again spread out into sheets of parallel threads, passed through the teeth of a steel comb which separates the threads and prevents tangling, and in this form they are wound on huge iron spools knowns as...
Dates:
1909