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Gelatin silver print. Image depicts the drawing room in the El Paso Cotton Mills (El Paso Cotton Mills Company) in El Paso, Texas, but from another angle than that seen in item 8 in this folder. The drawing machinery here was manufactured by the Saco-Lowell Shops in 1924. Empty roving cans are in the foreground. Carding machinery is just barely visible in the background. A male employee is just visible in the left background working at a desk. Copy B.

Gelatin silver print. Image depicts the spinning room in the El Paso Cotton Mills (El Paso Cotton Mills Company) in El Paso, Texas. No employees visible.

Gelatin silver print. Image depicts spooling machinery in the El Paso Cotton Mills (El Paso Cotton Mills Company) in El Paso, Texas. No employees visible.

Gelatin silver print. Image depicts the warping room in the El Paso Cotton Mills (El Paso Cotton Mills Company) in El Paso, Texas. The machine in the foreground is a beam warper; the two machines in the background are ball warpers. No employees visible.

Gelatin silver print. Image depicts either slasher or sizing machinery in the El Paso Cotton Mills (El Paso Cotton Mills Company) in El Paso, Texas. A slasher is used for applying a size mixture to warp yarns. No employees visible.

Gelatin silver print. Image depicts a room in the El Paso Cotton Mills (El Paso Cotton Mills Company) in El Paso, Texas, but it is unclear what the machinery in the room is for. There are a number of reeds stacked against the wall and possibly extra spindles or bobbins in the open cabinet in the back, but the use of the machine in the center is unknown. The sign on the back wall, on the left, reads "Do Not Spit on the Floors Use Cuspidors."

Gelatin silver print. Image depicts the cloth room in the El Paso Cotton Mills (El Paso Cotton Mills Company) in El Paso, Texas. Rolls of cloth stand on the floor in the foreground and against the wall on the side. Note the No Smoking sign in Spanish ("Se Prohibe Fumar") pasted on the interior windows. Folded cloth packages are visible on the table against the wall in the background.

Gelatin silver print. Image depicts the boiler room in the El Paso Cotton Mills (El Paso Cotton Mills Company) in El Paso, Texas. Steam boilers built by the Heire Safety Boiler Company are shown. Note the No Smoking sign propped against the pipes: "No Smoking in or around mills a fire will throw us all out of a job."

Gelatin silver print, 193-?. Image depicts the machine shop in the El Paso Cotton Mills (El Paso Cotton Mills Company) in El Paso, Texas. Both a lathe and a grinder are visible in the room, besides other equipment. The sign on the framework at the rear reads "Danger High Voltage" in both English and Spanish.

El Paso Photo Co., J.G. Gerlach, 504 N. Stanton St., Main 856, photographer. Gelatin silver print. Image depicts a window display highlighting the Lone Star Cotton Mills. Cotton duct and cotton drill are hung on either side of a center display of raw cotton, along with photos of different kinds of processes (lapping, carding, spinning, slubbing, winding, warping, looms, slashing), several slivers and thread on cones.