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	Search results for Cotton    Refine your search Try advanced search results 1-20 of 28 item(s)  page 1 of 2 : ( <<  1  2  >> ) :: previous : next select all : clear all : add to favorites   Image: Title: Subject: Description: 1. Dallas Mill Factories--Alabama--Dallas Mill (Huntsville, Ala.); Dallas Mill, before the addition. Chartered by Trevanion B. Dallas of Nashville, Dallas Mills began operation in 1892 as Alabama's largest cotton mill and mainly produced cotton sheeting through dying... 2. Chopping cotton Cotton growing--Alabama--Madison County; Workers are chopping or hoeing cotton on a Madison County farm. 3. Dallas Mills Cotton Festival Float, 1901 Streets--Alabama--Huntsville-Holmes Avenue; Dallas Mill (Huntsville, Ala.); Festivals--Alabama--Huntsville; Dallas Float for Cotton Festival, 1901 - This was the Dallas Mills float for the Cotton Festival Parade in 1901. The scene is on West Holmes Street, looking west from where Fowler's is now located. The... 4. Merrimack Mill Village, "A Model Cotton Mill and Village" Textile mills--Alabama--Huntsville; Merrimack Mills (Huntsville, Ala.); Aerial view of Mill Village in 1927, with rows of identical houses. Merrimack Mill, like other mills of the day, created an entire community, which included convenient housing, a school, hospital, and... 5. Cotton picking Cotton picking--Alabama--Huntsville; Workers picking cotton in Madison County, AL 6. Merrimack Mill Textile factories--Alabama--Huntsville; Merrimack Mill (Huntsville, Ala.); Cotton bales were delivered to the mill on wagons or drays pulled by mules. Here, in the holding room, bales of tightly compressed cotton are opened and fed into machines which "draw" the fibers apart,... 7. 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. 8. Bell Factory Bell Factory --History--Alabama; Alabama's first spinning and weaving cotton textile plant. Located about ten miles northeast of Huntsville on the Flint River, a short distance South of the Three Forks of the Flint River Bridge. Power... 9. West Side Square (Cotton Row) Hearn, Glenn, 1914-1978; Mayors--Election--Huntsville, Alabama--1964; Cities and towns--Alabama--Huntsville; West Side Square (Cotton Row) in the summer of 1964 before being razed. Glenn Hearn won the election and was mayor from 1964-1968. The bank still looks the same today. 10. North Side Square (Randolph St.) Cotton trade--Alabama--Huntsville; Courthouses--Alabama--Huntsville; Cities and towns--Alabama--Huntsville; Streets--City traffic--Randolph Street (Huntsville, Ala.); Street railroads--Trolley cars--Alabama--Huntsville; The north side of the Square, looking eastward down Randolph Street in 1889. For many years, as late as the 1920s, wagonloads of cotton were brought to the Square for sale. Notice the two trolley cars... 11. Merrimack Mill 1905 Card Room Merrimack Mill (Huntsville, Ala.); Textile factories--Alabama--Huntsville; These gentlemen are employed in the Card Room. It was their job to loosen or straighten the cotton fibers (smooth the cotton out). This room contained 400 small cards, known as "railroad" cards. Weights... 12. Merrimack Mill Workers 13. Merrimack Mill Workers Merrimack Mill workers sit for group photograph. Note the African American child who most likely worked as a sweeper. 14. Jefferson Street Bank buildings--Alabama--First National Bank, Huntsville (Ala.); Cities and towns--Alabama--Huntsville--Jefferson Street; First National Bank and old "Cotton Row" looking north on Jefferson St. 15. Dallas Mill (Rear View) Textile factories--Alabama--Huntsville; Dallas Mill (Huntsville, Ala.); Bales of cotton are waiting to be weighed and graded before being sent into the mill. The Weight and Grade Building is on the left in the photograph, located at the rear of Dallas Mill. 16. 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. 17. 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... 18. William H. Echols Echols, William H., 1834-1909; William H. Echols was born in Huntsville, Alabama and graduated from West Point in 1854. He was an engineer in the U.S. Army. In 1861 he entered the Engineering Corps of the Confederate States Army with... 19. Isaac Schiffman Schiffman, Isaac, 1856-1910; Isaac Schiffman immigrated to America in 1875 from Hoppstadten, Germany. He came to Huntsville, Alabama to join his uncles, Solomon and Daniel Schiffman in the mercantile business. In 1905 Schiffman became... 20. Memphis and Charleston Railroad Roundhouse and Shops Railroad companies--Memphis & Charleston Railroad; Military railroads--United States--History--19th Century; Roundhouses (Railroads)--United States--Alabama--Huntsville; This photograph was made during the Federal occupation of Huntsville in 1864, and appears to have been taken from the second floor of the Huntsville Depot, looking north across the tracks to the present... select all : clear all : add to favorites results 1-20 of 28 item(s)  page 1 of 2 : ( <<  1  2  >> ) :: previous : next
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