Peter M. Strang Collection of Textile Industry Photographs, 1927
Collection Number: 6833 P

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Peter M. Strang Collection of Textile Industry Photographs, 1927
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
6833 P
Abstract:
Photographs of textile factory interiors.
Creator:
Peter M. Strang
Quanitities:
1 folders
Language:
Collection material in English
Photographs included depict : picker rooms, a modern one-process picker, finish pickers in an old picker room, overhead cleaners and duct humidification, modern spinning rooms with individual motors, spinning room with 4- frame motor drive, typical spinning room shaft alley (belt alley).
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Preferred Citation

Peter M. Strang Collection of Textile Industry Photographs #6833 P. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Kitson Machine Shop.
Passaic Cotton Mills (Passaic, N.J.)
Pettee Machine Works (Newton Upper Falls, Mass.)
Whitin Machine Works (Whitinsville, Mass.)
Subjects:
Belts and belting
Cotton mills
Male employees
Spinning machinery
Textile factories
CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Box 1 Folder 1
Textile Factory Interiors
Box 1 Folder 1
Item 1: Finisher Pickers in Picker Room
 1927
Format: black and white photograph
Scope and Contents
Interior view - Kitson Machine Co., Decatur, AL, mill
Box 1 Folder 1
Item 2: Picker Room
Format: black and white photograph
Scope and Contents
Interior view, Passaic Cotton Mills, Passaic, NJ
Box 1 Folder 1
Item 3: Whitin picker machine
Format: black and white photograph
Scope and Contents
Interior view of one-process Whitin picker machine.
Box 1 Folder 1
Item 4: Shaft alley (belt alley) in spinning room, unidentified mill
Format: black and white photograph
Scope and Contents
Gelatin silver print, [?; original 1920-25]. Probably a copy print. Image depicts the interior of a spinning room in an unidentified mill, showing the shaft or belt alley where the belts run from each spinning frame up to the ceiling. Spinning frames made by Pettee Machine Works. Written on reverse: "Typical Spinning Room Shaft Alley (belt alley) in the Early 1920s." 20.5 x 25.5 cm.
Box 1 Folder 1
Item 5: Spinning room with 4-frame motor drive, unidentified mill
Format: black and white photograph
Scope and Contents
Gelatin silver print, [?; original 1920-25]. Probably a copy print. Image depicts the Interior of a spinning room in an unidentified mill, showing cotton spinning frames made by Whitin Machine Works. Room is very large. Written on reverse: "Spinning Room with 4-Frame Motor Drive." 25.5 x 20.75 cm.
Box 1 Folder 1
Item 6: Modern spinning room, unidentified mill
Format: black and white photograph
Scope and Contents
Coxe Studio, High Grade Photography, Greenville, S.C., photographer. Gelatin silver print, [?; original 194-?]. Probably a copy print. Image depicts the interior of a spinning room in an unidentified mill, showing cotton spinning frames made by Whitin Machine Works. Written on reverse: "Modern Spinning Room with Individual Motors, Overhead Cleaners, and Duct Humidification." 25.5 x 20.5 cm.