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Aerial view of Huntsville Manufacturing Company
Factories--Alabama--Huntsville Manufacturing Company; Textile factories--Alabama--Huntsville;
Huntsville Manufacturing Company, located in West Huntsville. Originally known as the Merrimack Mill, the factory was constructed in 1899 and the surrounding mill village grew with 279 houses, a hospital,...
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Huntsville Manufacturing Company
Huntsville Manufacturing Company (Ala.); Textile factories--Alabama--Huntsville; Merrimack Mill (Huntsville, Ala.);
In 1946, after 45 years in operation, the Merrimack Mill was purchased by the Huntsville Manufacturing Company. Here, a group of executives are given a tour of the new "Huntsville Manufacturing Company."...
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Huntsville Manufacturing Company
Factories--Alabama--Huntsville Manufacturing Company;
Huntsville Manufacturing Company, located in west Huntsville. Originally known as the Merrimack Mill, the factory was constructed in 1899 and the surrounding mill village grew with 279 houses, a hospital,...
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Mill village
Employees' buildings and facilities--Alabama--Merrimack Manufacturing Company (Huntsville, Ala.);
Part of a mill village in west Huntsville. The field in this photo used to contain playground equipment provided by the Merrimack Manufacturing Company. Mill villages were generally self-contained entities...
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Huntsville Manufacturing Company Union Strike
Strikes and lockouts--Textile Industry--Alabama--Huntsville; Huntsville Manufacturing Company (Ala.);
Huntsville Manufacturing Company Union Strike on Thursday, May 3, 1951, between 1:30 and 2:00 p.m. On the fourth day of operation after a 30-day strike, 310 workers reported to work. Only one case of strike...
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Huntsville Manufacturing Company
Huntsville Manufacturing Company (Ala.); Textile factories--Alabama--Huntsville;
Aerial view of Huntsville Manufacturing Company, located in West Huntsville.
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Workers on strike
Factories--Alabama--Huntsville Manufacturing Company; Strikes and lockouts--Huntsville Manufacturing Company;
Workers on strike at the Huntsville Manufacturing Company. This photo was shot on April 30, 1951 between 5:30 a.m. and 6:00 a.m.
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Merrimack Mill No. 2
Merrimack Mill--Huntsville (Ala.); Huntsville Manufacturing Company (Ala.); Textile factories--Alabama--Huntsville;
Huntsville Manufacturing Company, located in west Huntsville. Originally known as the Merrimack Mill, the factory was constructed in 1899 and the surrounding mill village grew with 279 houses, a hospital,...
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Huntsville Manufacturing Company Weaving Room
Huntsville Manufacturing Company (Ala.); Textile factories--Alabama--Huntsville;
These textile mill employees are working in the "Weaving Room". Weaving transforms yarn into cloth. It interlaces two sets of threads in the machine, which is called a loom. The set of yarn which run the...
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Huntsville Manufacturing Company Card Room
Huntsville Manufacturing Company (Ala.); Textile factories--Alabama--Huntsville;
The picker laps are fed into carding machines where they are reduced to a thin layer of cotton. Fine wire teeth comb the cotton, coming out in the form of a one-inch rope called roving.
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Union Strikers at the main gate of Huntsville Manufacturing Company
Strikes and lockouts--Textile Industry--Alabama--Huntsville; Huntsville Manufacturing Company (Ala.);
Monday, April 30, 1951. No trouble was encountered as 20 employees other from the supervisory force, entered the main gate in response to the company's back to work request.
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Huntsville Manufacturing Company Roving Room
Huntsville Manufacturing Company (Ala.); Textile factories--Alabama--Huntsville;
These ladies are working the "roving machines". "Roving" is a smaller strand of cotton that has been further reduced by rollers and bobbin speed. To resist breaking, the roving is given many twists as...
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Dallas Mill
Dallas Mill (Huntsville, Ala.); Factories--Alabama--Huntsville--Dallas Mill;
Dallas Manufacturing Company began operation in East Huntsville in 1892. They started with 25,000 spindles and 750 broad looms. The mill ran on steam power and produced cotton sheeting.
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Joe Bradley School, Huntsville, Ala.
Schools-Alabama-Huntsville; Merrimack Mill (Huntsville, Ala.); Joseph J. Bradley School (Huntsville, Ala.);
Joe Bradley School, located on Triana Boulevard, was owned by the Merrimack Manufacturing Company. It was named for Joseph J. Bradley, Sr., Merrimack's managing agent from 1905 to 1922. The elementary...
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Steam railroad excursion to Three Forks of the Flint River in 1928
Railroads--Travel--Alabama; Flint River (Ala.);
The employees of the Huntsville Manufacturing Company, located in West Huntsville, ride the train to the Three Forks of the Flint River for an annual picnic in 1928.
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Spanish American war troops in Huntsville, Alabama
Spanish-American War, 1898--Huntsville (Ala.); Military camps--Spanish American War, 1898--Alabama;
Twenty thousand soldiers from the Spanish-American War were sent to Huntsville, Alabama after the war in 1899. This camp is located in front of the Dallas Manufacturing Company near Oakwood and Dallas...
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