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 Machines in the White Oak Mills."
A pair of nearly identical photographs for viewing the depicted image in three dimensions with a stereograph viewer. Inside of a mill, the camera, at about head height, is at an oblique angle to the feeder machines, and a dozen of them can be seen extending the length of a large room, with large posts between each machine, and large ducts above and behind. The foreground and the left side of the frame show a huge mound of cotton spilling over the floor, and between the cotton and the machines are 3 men looking at the camera, two of them holding overflowing armfuls of cotton.
Notes:
No. 2 in a set of 25 stereocards. The White Oak Cotton Mills made denim.
Cite As:
ATHM Textile Industry Stereographs. 6524/006 P. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University.
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