A visit to White Oak Cotton Mills, Greensboro, N.C.
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- Card 01: Partial View of White Oak Cotton Mills
- A view from across the mill pond with White Oak Cotton Mill in the background and the mill village in the foreground.
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- Card 02: Opening Machines, White Oak Cotton Mills
- Men at White Oak Mills in Greensboro load cotton into opening machines which loosens the fibres and removes larger impurities.
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- Card 03: Lapper Machines, White Oak Cotton Mills
- Men at White Oak Cotton Mill work at the lapper machines which remove impurities from the cotton.
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- Card 04: Card Room, White Oak Cotton Mills
- Men work in the card room to comb out the fibres into rope called card silver.
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- Card 05: Drawing Frames, White Oak Cotton Mills
- Men at White Oak Cotton Mill work at the drawing frames where the spun yarn doubled and drawn out multiple times in order to produce a uniform weight.
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- Card 06: Slubbers, White Oak Cotton Mills
- Two men at White Oak Cotton Mill stand behind the slubber machines which drawns out the fibres into a finer stand of cotton and gives it a twist.
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- Card 07: Speeders, White Oak Cotton Mills
- The speeders at White Oak Cotton mill unwind the fibres from the from the slubbers and drawn them out multiple times until a finer strand of cotton is formed.
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- Card 08: Spinning Frames, White Oak Cotton Mills
- Women at White Oak Cotton Mill work at the spinning frames which twist the fibres firmly together for yarn ready to be dyed.
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- Card 09: Spoolers. White Oak Cotton Mills
- Spooling consists of unwinding the yard from the small bobbin on which it is spun and rewinding it on large spools.
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- Card 10: Warpers, White Oak Cotton Mills
- Warpers at White Oak Cotton Mill to gather threads into bunches and then wound into a cylindrical ball.
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- Card 11: Dye House, White Oak Cotton Mills
- Workers in the Dye House at White Oak Cotton Mill supervise the dyeing of the warpers, or yarn, in indigo vats.
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- Card 12: Beaming Frames, White Oak Cotton Mills
- Men at White Oak Cotton Mill work at the beaming frames to the warps are spread out and the threads separated.
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- Card 13: Slashers, White Oak Cotton Mills
- Men work at the slasher machines at White Oak Cotton Mill to size and stiffen the warps.
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- Card 14: Weave Room
- Women at White Oak Cotton Mill work in the weave room where threads are wound into a roll of cloth.
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- Card 15: Inspecting Tables, White Oak Cotton Mills
- Men work at the inspecting tables at White Oak Cotton Mill to insure only quality fabric passes inspection.
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- Card 16: Boiler House, White Oak Cotton Mills
- Men work in the boiler house at White Oak Cotton Mill shoveling coal to feed the furnaces that pipe steam to the mill.
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- Card 17: Engine Room, White Oak Cotton Mills
- The engine room at White Oak Cotton Mill is equipped with four large steam engines.
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- Card 18: White Oak Cotton Mill School
- Rows of children stand in front of the White Oak Cotton Mill School in Greensboro.
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- Card 19: Kindergarten Maintained by the Proximity Manufacturing Company
- In addition to the primary schools, Proximity Manufacturing Company maintains a kindergarten for the children not yet of school age.
