Olympia Cotton Mill, Columbia, South Carolina, 1909 – Historic Photograph Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Olympia Cotton Mill, Columbia, South Carolina, 1909, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Olympia Cotton Mill, Columbia, S.C.
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Olympia Cotton Mill, Columbia, South Carolina, 1909
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Olympia Cotton Mill in Columbia, South Carolina, was photographed in 1909, when the state capital's economy leaned heavily on textile manufacturing. Cotton mills had spread across the Carolina Piedmont and Midlands since the 1880s, drawing farm families from the countryside into company-owned villages where they worked long shifts for wages and cheap rent. The Olympia works, on the western side of the city near the Congaree River, was one of Columbia's major employers and anchored a mill village of workers' houses. Railroads converging on Columbia carried finished cloth to outside markets, and each new mill added to the city's growing working population. For residents, the mill whistle and the rhythm of the village shaped daily life nearly as much as the government offices downtown.
| Created / published | 1909 |
|---|---|
| Creator | haines photo co. (conneaut, ohio) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--South Carolina |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,716 px · prints to 18 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Olympia Cotton Mill, Columbia, S.C. |
| Reference | SC 1909 Olympia Cotton Mill, Columbia |
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