White Oak Cotton Mills, Greensboro, N.C.: Spinning room with 60,000 spindles – Historic 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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Step back in time with White Oak Cotton Mills, Greensboro, N.C.: Spinning room with 60,000 spindles, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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White Oak Cotton Mills, Greensboro, N.C.: Spinning room with 60,000 spindles
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The spinning room at the White Oak Cotton Mills in Greensboro, North Carolina, is captioned as holding 60,000 spindles, a figure that signals the scale of Piedmont textile production in the early twentieth century.
| Created / published | c1907. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | Stereo by H.C. White Co. No. 13812. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,421 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-122269 |
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