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 saw-tooth construction. The vertical sides of the teeth all face due North and are formed of ribbed glass, which affords the most perfect light to every section of the room."
A pair of nearly identical photographs for viewing the depicted image in three dimensions with a stereograph viewer. Looking down a long aisle full of workers in the Weave Room. A dark mechanical loom, roughly waist height, is on either side of the aisle, with baskets of bobbins, threads, and tools between each loom. The workers in the foreground are young, light skinned women wearing long dresses and aprons, some male workers can be distinguished in the middle distance, and nothing can be distinguished of the workers further back in the room except that there are many. None of the looms have any visible motion blur. A diffuse white light is coming from above.
Notes:
No. 14 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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