Text on reverse: "This school was built by the White Oak Cotton Mills at a cost of $25,000.00, and is maintained by them as a graded school, for the exclusive benefit of children of the operatives, who are given a free education. The present faculty numbers nine teachers. Special teachers are employed for instruction in manual training, singing, cooking and sewing. The Company also maintains a separate school at its Proximity plant."
A pair of nearly identical photographs for viewing the depicted image in three dimensions with a stereograph viewer. A large, 2-story brick school building is centered in the frame, with elementary-aged pupils and their teachers arranged in lines on the lawn in front. The school has large Tuscan columns in a recessed entry, and a cupola atop the building hold a flagpole and American flag.
Notes:
No. 18 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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