Text on reverse: "Separately organized welfare work is maintained for the boys at the White Oak Cotton Mills, in charge of a young man employed for this purpose. A club house has been fitted up, and every night the boys and young men assemble. There are no dues, everything in all the clubs and classes being entirely free. There are reading and game rooms, a library and a gymnasium. A debating club has been organized and meets each week. Once a month a mock trial is held. Sometimes a minstrel show is gotten up by the boys. The club rooms are well-heated and well lighted, and are open every night."
A pair of nearly identical photographs for viewing the depicted image in three dimensions with a stereograph viewer. Interior of Club House, approx. 30 light skinned boys and young men, seated in the front of the image, standing in the back, completely filling the room. The boys at the center of the image look toward the camera, those on the edges look in different directions; all are wearing jackets but not hats. The room itself is close and wood paneled; the lines of the ceiling boards come toward the viewer - perpendicular to the top of the image - and there is a brick chimney in the back left corner. A few streamers span the width of the room above the young men's heads. In the foreground on the right is a square tabletop game board resembling a carrom board.
Notes:
No. 22 in a set of 25 stereocards. The White Oak Cotton Mills made denim.
Cite As:
ATHM Textile Industry Stereographs. 6524/006 P. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University.
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