View from across the mill pond with White Oak Cotton Mill in the background and the mill village in the foreground.

Men load cotton into opening machines that loosen the fibers, work out lumps, and remove larger impurities.

Men work at the lapper machines, which remove impurities from the cotton and wind it into rolls of cotton batting.

Men work in the card room to comb out the fibers which are then gathered together to form a rope called card sliver.

Men work at the drawing frames where the spun yarn is doubled and drawn out multiple times in order to produce a uniform weight.

Two men stand behind the slubber machines which draw out the fibers into a finer strand of cotton and gives it a twist.

The speeders unwind the fibers from the slubbers and draw them out multiple times until a finer strand of cotton is formed.

Women work at spinning frames that twist the fibers firmly together to make yarn that is ready to be dyed.