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.

Spooling consists of unwinding the yard from the small bobbin on which it is spun and re-winding it on large spools.

Warpers gather threads into bunches and then wind them into a cylindrical ball.

Workers in the dye house supervise the dyeing of the warps, or yarn, in indigo vats.

Men work at the beaming frames where the warps are spread out and the threads separated and wound onto huge iron spools.

Men work at the slasher machines to size and stiffen the warps.

Women work in the weave room where threads are wound into a roll of cloth.

Men work at the inspecting tables to ensure only quality fabric passes inspection.

Men work in the boiler house, shoveling coal to feed the furnaces that pipe steam to the mill.

The engine room is equipped with four large steam engines.

Lines of children stand in front of the White Oak Cotton Mill School.

In addition to the primary schools, Proximity Manufacturing Company maintains a kindergarten for the children not yet of school age.

Schoolgirls take cooking classes in Proximity and White Oak Villages.

Young ladies participate in sewing classes organized by Proximity and White Oak Cotton Mills.

The welfare club for boys at White Oak Cotton Mills provides boys and young men a place to assemble and play games, use the library, use the gymnasium and hold debates.

White Oak Cotton Mills had its own brass band comprised of operatives in the mills.

Members of the White Oak baseball team all worked at the White Oak Cotton Mills.