Text on reverse: "Left to right: seated; Bernard M. Cone, Secretary and Treasurer, Julius W. Cone, Vice President, Ceasar Cone, President, Robert G. Campbell, General Superintendent. Standing: John G. Campbell, Superintendent of White Oak plant, James A. Bangle, Superintendent of Proximity plant. The Proximity Manufacturing Company was organized in 1895 by Messrs. Moses H. and Ceasar Cone. It started operations in 1896 with an equipment of 240 looms and 7,500 spindles. These have been gradually increased to 3,500 looms and 110,000 spindles."
A pair of nearly identical photographs for viewing the depicted image in three dimensions with a stereograph viewer. Six unsmiling light skinned men in three-piece suits, 5 with large mustaches, arrayed behind a paper-laden desk. The men are in front of two large, partly shaded windows providing bright natural light, though there is also a hanging electric light near the top of the frame. A calendar, a framed picture of the mill, and a small family portrait hang between the windows, and another indistinguishable, small, framed image is hung directly on the window casing.
Notes:
No. 25 in a set of 25 stereocards. The White Oak Cotton Mills and Proximity Mill 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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