Text on reverse: "Sewing classes are organized at both mills. In addition to the plain sewing, instruction is given in knitting, embroidery, drawn-work, crocheting and other forms of needle work. Many of the girls are enabled to make their own dresses. Classes are also organized in basketry and raffia work, stenciling and rug-making. Each spring, the company encourages the beautifying of the homes by offering cash prizes and distributing grass seeds, flowers and shrubs to competitors."
A pair of nearly identical photographs for viewing the depicted image in three dimensions with a stereograph viewer. Interior of a room full of approx. 20 light skinned girls sitting four to a table, mostly sewing or waiting. Image looks toward the far corner of the room, framed landscapes are hung on the walls; a table of baskets is along one wall, a table of plants along the other. Both electric and oil lights are hung from the ceiling. Two light skinned women, and an older light skinned man stand in front of the table of plants observing the girls, and several other teachers observe them more closely. Most of the children are looking down at their hands, but the girl in the center is looking at the camera and smirking, her face is blurred with motion.
Notes:
No. 21 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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