Text on reverse: "The Engine Room of the White Oak Cotton Mills is the largest and best equipped individual power station in the South. It contains four enormous Steam Engines, each of 2,500 horse power capacity, giving the station an aggregate capacity of 10,000 horse power. Connected with each engine is a large electric generator. The four generators are connected at the switchboard, where the power is distributed to electric motors in the various departments of the Mill."
A pair of nearly identical photographs for viewing the depicted image in three dimensions with a stereograph viewer. Looking down a row of large steam engines, each has an enormous flywheel and a large steam chamber, with cuts emerging to the left of the image. The room itself has a steel spans across the ceiling and bright windows on all visible walls. The room advances from the lower right to the upper left of the frame.
Notes:
No. 17 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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