Text on reverse: "At both the White Oak and the Proximity Villages, cooking classes are organized for the school girls, the older women and the girls who work in the mill. The Company maintains regularly organized welfare departments in charge of secretaries who are graduates in domestic science. Various clubs and classes are organized, parties and entertainments given, the sick visited, etc. On the Fourth of July, the entire population of both mill villages, numbering over 5,000 is given an annual picnic."
A pair of nearly identical photographs for viewing the depicted image in three dimensions with a stereograph viewer. Interior of a kitchen full of adolescent girls cooking. In the foreground on the right is a table holding mixing bowls and plates, attended two by two girls. In the center of the image, against the back wall of the room is a low stove and tall exhaust pipe, A young woman to the right of the stove hold a kettle as though to pour into a frying pan held by a young woman to the left of the stove. All the girls wear aprons and little white hats, none of them acknowledge the camera. A teacher stands in partial shadow near a door on the left side of the frame, looking into the camera. The room itself is heavy on wood slats: horizontal and painted on the walls, and at a perpendicular angle on the floor and ceiling, giving the impression of vertical lines, then horizontal, then vertical again as one scans the image from top to bottom.
Notes:
No. 20 in a set of 25 stereocards. The Proximity Manufacturing Company operated the Proximity and White Oak Cotton Mills, both of which 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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