Cotton Mill Collection

New Lanark Mills, Scotland, c1815. Robert Owens (1771-1858) model community of cotton mills and housing. Educational facilities were provided, as well as the worlds first day nursery

Mississippi cotton gin at Dahomey, 1899. Creator: Unknown
Mississippi cotton gin at Dahomey, 1899. Photograph shows African American workers pressing cotton into bales as an overseer watches

Sibley Cotton Mills, Augusta, Ga. c1903. Creator: Unknown
Sibley Cotton Mills, Augusta, Ga. c1903

Sorting cotton, between 1900 and 1910. Creator: Unknown
Sorting cotton, between 1900 and 1910

Cotton Mill, Greensboro, South Carolina, 1911. Creator: Unknown
Cotton Mill, Greensboro, South Carolina, 1911

Cotton-Mills, Rideles Bank, 1872. Creator: Granville Perkins
Cotton-Mills, Rideles Bank, 1872. Industrial buildings for milling cotton on the Brandywine Creek, Delaware, USA. From " Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In

Addie Card, 12 years old. Spinner in cotton mill, North Pownal, Vermont, 1910

Mills on Blackstone River, 1872. Creator: William Hamilton Gibson
Mills on Blackstone River, 1872. Industrial buildings in Rhode Island, USA. The first successful water-powered cotton mill in America was opened at Pawtucket Falls in 1790

Mill on Joness Falls, 1874. Creator: John Filmer
Mill on Joness Falls, 1874. Mount Vernon cotton mills on Jones Falls, a river in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. From " Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In

Interior of Cotton Mill, 1910. From The British Isles in Pictures, by H. Clive Barnard, M.A. D.Lit. [A. & C. Black, Limited, London, 1910]

Cotton mill Krasnaya Talka in Iwanowo, . Private Collection

Cotton, 3. - Spinning Machine, Lancashire, 1928. From Players Cigarettes - Products of the World: A Series of 50 [John Player & Sons, London, 1928]

Cotton, 2. - Breaking up Bales in Mixing Room, England, 1928. From Players Cigarettes - Products of the World: A Series of 50 [John Player & Sons, London, 1928]

Cotton manufacture, c1845. An adult hand with a boy assistant, forming cotton into laps so that it could be put into the carding machine in a uniform amounts

Slave labour on a cotton plantation in the southern states of America, 1860. Putting cotton bolls through a whipping press before putting the cotton through a saw gin

General view of a large printing room in a cotton mill, Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA, 20th century. Stereoscopic card. Detail

Men carrying baskets of cotton at an Indore cotton mill, India, 1900s. Stereoscopic card. Detail

A cotton plantation, c1880. Slavery was officially abolished in the United States in 1865. A print from Great Industries of Great Britain, Volume I, published by Cassell Petter and Galpin, (London)

Carding, drawing and roving cotton, c1830. A carding engine (left) delivers cotton in a single sliver. The factory is operated by shafts and belting, which could be powered by water or steam

The first cotton mill at Cromford, Derbyshire, and Richard Arkwrights house, 1836. Arkwright (1732-1792) was the inventor of textile manufacturing machinery which included the first practical means

Cotton manufacture: mule spinning, c1830. A self-acting mule of the type devised by Richard Roberts in 1825. Roberts spinning mule produced better yarn than any other machine

Spinning cotton with self-acting mules of the type devised by Richard Roberts in 1825 (c1835). These could be powered by water wheel or steam engine

Sectional view of Strutts model cotton mills, Belper, Derbyshire, England, 1820. Artist: William Lowry
Sectional view of Strutts model cotton mills, Belper, Derbyshire, England, 1820. Power was generated by the water wheel and distributed via a shaft and belting

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