Box 5
Container
Contains 149 Results:
Item 13: No. 13. Slashers, 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. 13 in a set of 25 stereocards. Text on reverse: "From the Beaming Frames the warps are taken to machines known as Slashers, where they are sized or stiffened to enable them to stand the chafing at the looms incidental to the process of weaving. The Slasher Beams are placed in an iron frame at the back of the slashers and unwound together through the machine. With them some additional threads of white yarn are unwound at either side...
Dates:
1909
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 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 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 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 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