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."
A pair of nearly identical photographs for viewing the depicted image in three dimensions with a stereograph viewer. Looking over and across many rows of Slubbers, each of which is covered in light-colored cotton strands, creating a vertical stripe pattern echoed by the large, light columns that mark the end of each row of Slubbers. The enormous scale of the room is suggested by the perspectival convergence of dozens of machines, columns, and ceiling joists in the far-right center of the frame. Several light skinned workmen can be seen, all looking directly into the camera. The one closest the center of the frame is a light skinned man wearing a brimmed black hat, and a dark vest. The other visible workers are in the middle distance on the left side of the frame.
Notes:
No. 6 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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