North Carolina's Textile Industry
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Title |
North Carolina's Textile Industry |
Caption |
NORTH CAROLINA'S TEXTILE INDUSTRY. North Carolina is the country's leading textile producing state with over 400 modern mills employing 220,000 people -- about 60 per cent of all the industrial workers in the state. Textile payrolls amount to over 430 million dollars a year. This picture shows rolls of partially processed cotton (known as laps) being checked for weight before going on to the next process. A "Colourpicture" Publication, Boston 15, Mass., U.S.A. B1666 |
Publisher |
Colourpicture, Boston, Mass. |
Description |
View of a man in a textile mill lifting rolls of partially processed cotton onto a scale. A calendar on the wall at right reads "April 1947." |
Creation Date |
1947 |
Date |
ca. 1947 |
Subject (tgm) |
Textile industry Cotton Mills Cotton industry Scales |
Subject Topical |
Postcards--North Carolina. |
Subject Geographic |
North Carolina |
DCMI Type |
Image |
Form General |
Postcards |
Language |
English |
Physical Description of Original |
88 mm x 138 mm |
Medium of Original |
Paper |
Collection in Repository |
Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards (P077); collection guide available online at http://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/P0077/ |
Local Identifier |
P077;4-189 |
Citation |
"North Carolina's Textile Industry" Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards (P077), North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, Wilson Library, UNC-Chapel Hill. |
Digital Collection |
North Carolina Postcards |
Repository |
North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Host |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Copyright |
Public Domain |
filename |
P077-4-189.tif |
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