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."
A pair of nearly identical photographs for viewing the depicted image in three dimensions with a stereograph viewer. Looking down a long row of lapping machine from slightly overhead. Each of the machines has four rolls of lap in varying diameters, and at the end of each machine is a bale of cotton. Several men are working with their hands on the cotton and lap. A pulley system, extending from the top right corner to the middle of the left side, and repeating all the way down the row of lap machines, combined with a column at the end of each machine emphasize the large scale of the space.
Notes:
No. 3 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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