Hydroelectric Machinery
Hydroelectric Power Unit
Stored Spools
Warping Room
Card Room, with Drawing Frames
Spooling or Winding Department
Opening Room Machinery
William Henry Summers Loading Cotton
Copper Wire
Conveyor in Mill
High Speed Cone Winders
Cone Creel for Chain Warper
Front of Battle House
Civil War Cannon
Roy Hopewell Operating Carding Machine
Mills Employees Celebrating Centennial
Card Room Photograph
Slubbers in Card Room
Section of Card Room
Section of Card Room Showing Roving Frames
Boiler Room, Rocky Mount Mills
Boiler Room
Looking at Building Plans
Beaming Warper
Ball Warping Machine
High Speed Ball Warpers
Employees Receiving Awards
Trash Rake, Operated by Worker
Assembly Line
Cooling System
Rocky Mount Mills, 1960
Archival Collection: Charles Killebrew Collection
Date: 1960
Category: Machinery, People
Two separate images of men looking over what appears to be twisting machines. In one images, one of the men seems to be showing the other how to replace a piece of equipment on the machine, and in the other, the second man is holding the same piece of machinery and looks to be ready to replace it, emulating the other man. One of the men is wearing a suit, while the other is in a patterned shirt. Images are very similar to propaganda photographs in some of the pamphlets about RMM
Rocky Mount Mills, 1959
Archival Collection: Charles Killebrew Collection
Date: 1959
Category: People
Image of four elderly men and one elderly woman standing in an interior room. One man appears to be putting a bracelet on the woman’s wrist while the other three look on. Individuals are unknown
Rocky Mount Mills/Collins Brothers Machine Company: Wedding, 1956
Archival Collection: Charles Killebrew Collection
Date: 1956
Category: Machinery
Machinery inside Rocky Mount Mills. All of the images are most likely taken of the Twisting Room. Each image contains a different perspective of the twisting machines
Rocky Mount Mills: Aerial, 1953
Archival Collection: Charles Killebrew Collection
Date: 1953
Category: Mill Exterior
Image of the mill and Tar River supposedly taken in 1953. The two shots are similar to ones that we already have in the archive but display a different shot that focuses on the mill and the falls. The unpacking building is especially prominent in these shots.
Rocky Mount Mills Ledger, 1952
Archival Collection: Charles Killebrew Collection
Date: 1952
Category: Administration, Documents
Image of a ledger page entitled “Rocky Mount Mills Payroll Authority Sheet.” Form is blank with no information written in. unknown date
Rocky Mount Mills, 1964: Scan 4
Archival Collection: Charles Killebrew Collection
Date: 1964
Category: Awards and Ceremonies
Group of employees who seem to have received some type of award
Rocky Mount Mills, 1964: Scan 3
Archival Collection: Charles Killebrew Collection
Date: 1964
Category: Awards and Ceremonies
Two employees standing with Thomas Battle after receiving some type of award
Rocky Mount Mills, 1964: Scan 2
Archival Collection: Charles Killebrew Collection
Date: 1964
Category: Awards and Ceremonies
Group of employees that seem to be receiving the 35-year award
Rocky Mount Mills, 1964: Scan 1
Archival Collection: Charles Killebrew Collection
Date: 1964
Category: Awards and Ceremonies
Group of employees that seem to be receiving the 35-year award since a clock is being presented to them
Fire: Rocky Mount Mills, 1951
Archival Collection: Charles Killebrew Collection
Date: 1951
Category: Administration
Group of female employees standing behind two men, one wearing a shirt and tie and the other is looking down at his wallet
Kim: Korean Boy Working at Rocky Mount Mills, 1950: Scan 1
Archival Collection: Charles Killebrew Collection
Date: 1950
Category: Work
Young Korean man smiling while operating a water fountain
Roving Frames
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Roving Frames in Card Room
Machinery in Twisting Department
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Machines in the twisting department
Roving Frames in Card Room
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Roving Frames in Card Room
Roving Frames, Rocky Mount Mills
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Roving Frames in Card Room
Inside Rocky Mount Mills
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Interior Room of Mill
Card Room, Rocky Mount Mills
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Card Room, with drawing frames and slubbers?
Machinery inside Rocky Mount Mills
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Mill’s interior, possibly the Opening Room
Lapper Room at Rocky Mount Mills
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Lapper Room, with cotton/yarn in the foreground
Stony Creek, Rocky Mount Mills, 15 May 1975
Archival Collection: Charles Killebrew Collection
Date: 5/15/1975
Category: People
Eight images from a 35 mm film reel of two men standing in front of a truck. The men, one in a suit and one in a fire rescue uniform, are together holding an envelope between them
Mills Baseball Team, 1968
Archival Collection: Charles Killebrew Collection
Date: 1968
Category: Mill Village, People
Three duplicate color images of the RMM baseball team. Photograph was taken outside, presumably at the ballpark. Sixteen players and two managers in the picture.
Rocky Mount Mills Baseball Team
Archival Collection: Charles Killebrew Collection
Date: 1968
Category: Mill Village, People
Three duplicate color images of the RMM baseball team. Photograph was taken outside, presumably at the ballpark. Sixteen players and two managers in the picture.
Rocky Mount Mills Baseball
Archival Collection: Charles Killebrew Collection
Date: 1968
Category: Mill Village, People
Three duplicate color images of the RMM baseball team. Photograph was taken outside, presumably at the ballpark. Sixteen players and two managers in the picture.
Rocky Mount Mills, 1964
Archival Collection: Charles Killebrew Collection
Date: 1964
Category: Documents
Image of an advertisement for Riverside Tobacco Twine. Reads” Riverside Tobacco Twine: Best by Test since 1818, 4 ply & 3 ply – Balls & Cones.” Graphic of a tobacco leaf hung with cotton twine and two spools of twine on the left side of the image
Rocky Mount Mills, 1963
Archival Collection: Charles Killebrew Collection
Date: 1963
Category: Administration, People
two men and one woman stand in the foreground holding trophy cups with members of the mill administration, including Thomas Battle, behind them.
Rocky Mount Mills, 1962
Archival Collection: Charles Killebrew Collection
Date: 1962
Category: Administration, People
a group of men stand behind the main desk in the Battle House. A plaque on the desk reads “H.L. Battle,” and there are what appear to be two silver punch bowls or trophy cups on the desk, as well.
Rocky Mount Mills, 1961
Archival Collection: Charles Killebrew Collection
Date: 1961
Category: People
Two similar images of six men and one woman in an interior room. Five men look on as one man puts a watch on a woman’s wrist. Unclear what type of event is depicted. Everyone is dressed in nice clothes
Rocky Mount Mills, 35 Years Awards
Archival Collection: Charles Killebrew Collection
Date: 1960
Category: People
Two copies of the same image. Group of thirteen men and women dressed in nice clothes posing for a photograph. Likely to be the recipients of the mill’s 35-year award in 1960
35 Years Award,1960
Archival Collection: Charles Killebrew Collection
Date: 1960
Category: People
Two copies of the same image. Group of thirteen men and women dressed in nice clothes posing for a photograph. Likely to be the recipients of the mill’s 35-year award in 1960
Rocky Mount Mills, 1960
Archival Collection: Charles Killebrew Collection
Date: 1960
Category: Administration, People
Two similar images of four men with two of them holding a plaque labeled “Certificate of Merit.” Print is small but looks to be an award given to RMM because of their lack of accidents over the course of 1,000,000 man hours.
1885 Photograph of Rocky Mount Mills
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Mill Exterior
Shot of entire mill in 1865, same picture in “Rocky Mount Mills: Established…” and on p. 22 of Rocky Mount Mills : carded cotton yarns, Rocky Mount, N.C
1870 Invoice Letterhead
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: 1870
Category: Documents
Blank Invoice with RMM letterhead; Lists James Battle as secretary and treasurer; very similar to 1870 Invoice.jpg
1870 Invoice
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: 1870
Category: Documents
Blank Invoice with RMM letterhead; Lists James Battle as secretary and treasurer
Lapper Room Machine and Scale
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Single machine from Lapper Room with scale beside it
Image of Machinery with Spools
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Room of machines with loose spools in foreground
Twisting Department Machinery
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
close up of machine from Twisting Department
Power Building
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Hydroelectric plant building similar to 1073-36
Office, Likely in Testing Department
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Administration
Some type of office, maybe a part of the testing department
Treasurer’s Office
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Administration
Treasurer’s Office, image on p. 34 of “Rocky Mount mills, a case history of industrial development, 1818-1943”
close up of Machinery
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
close up of machine with lots of pipes coming out of it
Machinery in Opening Room
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Machines maybe in the Opening Room with stacked bales of cotton on the floor and raw cotton in the machines
Non-Operational Machinery
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Row of machines not in operation
Card Room, Drawing Frames in Foreground
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Card Room with drawing frames in foreground and roving frames in background
Card Room
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Card Room, with drawing frames and slubbers?
Lapping Machine Working
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Machine with reel of raw cotton sheet, likely in lapper room
1724-40
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Wider shot of same machine as 1091-36.jpg
Stored Spools, Rocky Mount Mills
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Rows of stored spools, wider shot of same thing as 1070-36.jpg
Early Machinery, Rocky Mount Mills
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Machinery with raw cotton in bins, possibly the opening room
Interior of Mill, Unknown Machinery
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Piece of machinery with three tanks in the background and raw cotton piled in room’s corner
Exterior of Mill
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Mill Exterior
Corner of Mill with shed and chainlink fence
Machinery, Possibly in Carding Room
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Great shot of several different machines, maybe from the carding room
Roving Frames at Rocky Mount Mills
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Alternate angle of same machines as in 1293-38.jpg, possibly roving frames in carding room
Roving Frames in Carding Room
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Alternate angle of same machines as in 1293-38.jpg, possibly roving frames in carding room
Roving Frames
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Possibly Roving Frames in Carding Room
Twisting Department
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Twisting Department
Side View of Mill
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Mill Exterior
Row of Windows on side of mill, with small entrance at bottom of hill
Card Room, Possibly with Lapping Machinery
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Card Room but looks like a lapping machine in the foreground
Machinery, Winding Department
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Winding Department machinery
Machinery at Rocky Mount Mills
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Piece of cylindrical machinery involved in spooling or twisting
Packing Room
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Room in mill interior with machinery and packing boxes labeled “Riverside Cotton Twine”
Hydroelectric Machinery
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Interior of Hydroelectric plant building, power unit can be seen in background
Hydroelectric Power Unit
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Hydroelectric power unit
Stored Spools
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Really great shot of stored cotton spools, possibly from the Warping Room
Warping Room
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Warping Room
Card Room, with Drawing Frames
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Card Room, with drawing frames and slubbers?
Spooling or Winding Department
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Spooling or Winding Department
Opening Room Machinery
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Cotton sheets in Opener Room machines
William Henry Summers Loading Cotton
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Work
African American worker (William Henry Summers) lifting cotton bales outside the mill with a hand truck. water tower in background; Image on p. 2 of Rocky Mount Mills : carded cotton yarns, Rocky Mount, N.C
Copper Wire
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Close Up of copper wire
Conveyor in Mill
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Spooling or Winding Department; Same image as 1062-36.jpg
High Speed Cone Winders
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Label reads “Section of Winding Department Showing High Speed Cone Winders”; same image in “Rocky Mount Mills: Established 1818…”
Cone Creel for Chain Warper
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Label reads “Cone Creel for Large Capacity Chain Warper”; same image in “Rocky Mount Mills: Established 1818…”
Front of Battle House
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Mill Village
View of Battle House through bushes. Image on the cover of Rocky Mount Mills : carded cotton yarns, Rocky Mount, N.C;
Civil War Cannon
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Celebrations
Old picture of two men and a woman standing in front of a cannon and a stack of cannonballs
Roy Hopewell Operating Carding Machine
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery, Work
Worker (Roy Eugene Hopewell) operating a carding machine; image on p. 5 of Rocky Mount Mills : carded cotton yarns, Rocky Mount, N.C
Mills Employees Celebrating Centennial
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Celebrations
People dressed in antebellum garb in front of Battle House
Card Room Photograph
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
File labeled card room but seems to be a picture of twisting machines
Slubbers in Card Room
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Card Room with drawing frames and slubbers: label reads “Section of Card Room Showing Slubbers”
Section of Card Room
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Card Room with drawing frames and slubbers; label reads “Section of Card Room Showing Drawing Frames and Slubber”; same image in “Rocky Mount Mills: Established 1818…”
Section of Card Room Showing Roving Frames
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Roving Frames in Card Room; label reads: “Section of Card Room Showing Roving Frames
Boiler Room, Rocky Mount Mills
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Image of a tank that is likely a boiler
Boiler Room
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Boiler Plant, with label that reads: “Boiler Room”; same image in “Rocky Mount Mills: Established 1818…”
Looking at Building Plans
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Administration
Administrators standing behind H.L. Battle’s desk looking at blueprints; From left to right, the men are W.J. Laughridge, Hyman L. Battle, Wellford Price, and Ronald E. Stevens; picture on p. 1 of Rocky Mount Mills : carded cotton yarns, Rocky Mount, N.C
Beaming Warper
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Image of machinery with label that reads “Beaming Warper”
Ball Warping Machine
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Same image as ball warper room.jpg but with a label that reads: “High Speed Ball Warper Warping From Magazine Cone Creels
High Speed Ball Warpers
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Warping from magazine cone creels; label at bottom reads “High Speed Ball Warper”; same image in “Rocky Mount Mills: Established 1818…”
Employees Receiving Awards
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Awards and Ceremonies
Elderly woman receiving an award
Trash Rake, Operated by Worker
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Automatic trash rack designed to rid the mill turbines of debris; image in “Rocky Mount Mills: Established 1818…”; same image as trash rack.jpg
Assembly Line
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Spooling department
Cooling System
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Black and white shot of air ducts with machinery in the foreground
Air Ducts Inside Mill
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Air ducts inside the mill. color picture
Aerial View, Mill and Falls Road
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Mill Exterior
Aerial shot of the mill and mill pond in the foreground and the mill village in the background, looking down Falls Road toward Rocky Mount
Aerial View, Mill Only
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Mill Exterior
Aerial shot of only the mill itself with none of the surrounding area visible
Aerial View of Mill and Village
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Mill Exterior
Aerial shot, duplicate
Aerial Photograph, 1927
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: 1927
Category: Mill Exterior
Aerial shot of mill similar to aerial shot.jpg but with less development around the mill
Aerial Photograph, Mill and Falls
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Mill Exterior
Aerial shot of mill with great shot of the falls in the background
Aerial Photograph, Rocky Mount Mills
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Mill Exterior
Aerial shot of mill with mill pond in foreground
Accident Prevention Award
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Awards and Ceremonies
Group of men outside the mill with a banner that reads: “Accident Prevention”
Finisher Roving Frames
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Roving Frames in Card Room
Battle House at Rocky Mount Mills
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Administration
Image of Battle House where the mill offices were located
1937 Rocky Mount Mills Parade Float
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: 1937
Category: Celebrations
Parade float with three women; float reads: Rocky Mount Mills: Pioneers Since 1818″; picture labeled 1937
1936 Rocky Mount Mills Parade Float
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: 1936
Category: Celebrations
Image of a parade float (likely 1936) with one woman spinning cotton and four women standing.
Early Photograph, 1889 Mill
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Mill Exterior
Blurry shot of mill from across the mill pond. Caption on the image reads: “Mill #2 Erected in 1889”
Rocky Mount Mills First Building
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Mill Exterior
Mill in 1865, Shot of entire mill in 1865, same picture in “Rocky Mount Mills: Established…” and on p. 22 of Rocky Mount Mills : carded cotton yarns, Rocky Mount, N.C ; Same as 1885 photo.jpg
Photograph of First Mill Building
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Mill Exterior
Mill in 1865, Shot of entire mill in 1865, same picture in “Rocky Mount Mills: Established…” and on p. 22 of Rocky Mount Mills : carded cotton yarns, Rocky Mount, N.C ; Same as 1885 photo.jpg
View of Mill from Falls Road
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Mill Exterior
View of mill and water tower from Falls Road bridge
Exhaust Fan and Twisting Machine
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Exhaust fan and twisting machine
Battle House
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Administration, Mill Village
Battle House
Posed Employees
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Celebrations
Staged picture of mill supervisors, both men and women; image on p. 19 of Rocky Mount Mills : carded cotton yarns, Rocky Mount, N.C
Dunbar House
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Mill Village
Grainy image of a house, possibly the Dunbar House which served as the inspiration for the portico of the Battle House
Ducks Swimming in the Tar
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Mill Exterior
Four ducks swimming in a pound
Inside of Restaurant
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Mill Village
Interior of restaurant with bar and booths
Interior of Mill Canteen
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Mill Village
Store interior with candy display, maybe the mill canteen
Military Members and Managers Examine Machinery
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: 1940s
Category: Administration, Machinery
Men in suits looking at a machine, could be winding machine
Examining Machinery
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Administration, Machinery
Men in suits looking at a machine
Jacob Battle Avent Checking Shipment
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Work
Man in shirt and tie (shipping clerk Jacob Battle Avent) counting boxes for shipment; image on p. 15 of Rocky Mount Mills : carded cotton yarns, Rocky Mount, N.C
Five Cotton Trucks
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Work
Five loaded cotton trucks with five African American workers visible
Long Row of Machinery
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Rows of machines with cotton spools loaded on them
Row of Lapper Machines
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Row of lapper machines with cotton loaded on them
Cotton for Testing
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Work
Loose cotton on a table that looks to be in the testing room
Lapper Machines
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Lapper Machines
Cotton Manufacturing Process
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Same image as 1056-36 but with border cropped
Worker Loading Cotton into Barrels
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery, Work
Worker putting cotton roll in a machine in the card room
Cotton on Machinery Waiting for Manufacture
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery, Work
Lapper machines with cotton sheets in them
Rocky Mount Mills Cotton Yarns
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Warping from magazine cone creels
Trucks Loaded with Cotton
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Work
Trucks loaded with rolls of cotton with African American driver in front
Cotton Waiting for Processing
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Black and white picture of cotton sheets and machinery
Cotton Being Processed
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Color picture of stacks of cotton sheets
Cotton on Spindles
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Rolls of cotton in foreground with Lapper Machines in background
Reviewing Shipments
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Work
Man in shirt and tie reviewing shipments; Burlap sack reads “From Rocky Mount (NC) Mills”
Loading Cotton onto Machinery
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Rolls of cotton sheets on a machine
Cotton on Machinery
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Interior Room of Mill; same image as 1060-36
Cotton in the Opening Room
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Rolls of cotton sheets inside the mill
Picking Cotton for the Mill
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Work
African Americans picking cotton
Machinery in the Mill
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Lapper Machines
close up of Lapper Machine
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
close up of Lapper Machine
Cotton Loom
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Seem to be a picture of various types of mill equipment
Unidentified Machinery
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Machinery inside the mill
Rocky Mount Mills Sign and Logo
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Documents
Image of label that is the same text and format as the title of “Rocky Mount Mills : established 1818…”
Lewis Wood Operating a Warper
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery, Work
Man (Lewis Clifton Wood) operating a warper; Same image on p. 14 of Rocky Mount Mills : carded cotton yarns, Rocky Mount, N.C
Drawing Frames
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Drawing frames in the card room
Row of Roving Frames
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Shot looking down a row of roving frames
Row of Spinning Frames
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Shot looking down a row of spinning frames
Spinning Frame close up
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
close up of a spinning frame
Joe Talbott Operating Spinning Frame
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery, Work
Man (Joe Talbott) operating a spinning frame, Same image on p. 8 of Rocky Mount Mills : carded cotton yarns, Rocky Mount, N.C
Loading Area
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Open area in foreground with carding machines in the background
Rows of Frames in Mill
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Row of machines in either Card Room or Spinning Room
Section of Lapper Room
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Lapper Room; caption reads “Section of Lapper Room”; same image in “Rocky Mount Mills : established 1818…”
Working at Drawing Frame
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery, Work
Female worker operating what looks to be a drawing frame in card room
Operating a Roving Frame
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery, Work
Man operating a roving frame; looks to be Tommie Lee Thompson like on p. 7 of Rocky Mount Mills : carded cotton yarns, Rocky Mount, N.C
Working a Spinning Frame
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery, Work
Man in shirt and tie inspecting or using a spinning frame
Using Drawing Frame
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery, Work
Man using a drawing frame in the card room
Hydroelectric Power Units Working
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Two hydro-electric power units; label reads “Section of Hydro Electric Plant”; Same image in “Rocky Mount Mills : established 1818…”
Alternate View of Battle House
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Administration
Front view of Battle House through trees and bushes with most of house visible
house and bushes
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Administration
View of Battle House through bushes. Image on the cover of Rocky Mount Mills : carded cotton yarns, Rocky Mount, N.C; Same as colonial house.jpg
Touring the Mill Grounds
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Administration
Men in suits touring the mill grounds
Photograph of Battle House
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Administration
Battle House view from the corner
Bridge Over the Tar
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Mill Village
Image of the bridge over the Tar River; caption reads “Highway Bridge Over Tar River and Last Section of Dam”
heaters
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Working in the Testing Department
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Administration
Two men (Troy Lee Phelps and David H. Rackley) looking at cotton strips in the Testing Department; Same image on p. 16 of Rocky Mount Mills : carded cotton yarns, Rocky Mount, N.C
Men in Costume for Centennial
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Celebrations
Men in antebellum garb in front of Battle House; same men as in centennial shot.tif
Inspecting Machinery
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Administration
Men in suits inspecting a machine
Men on Steps of Battle House
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Administration
Men in suits standing in front of Battle House
At Mill Offices
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: People
Color picture of two men standing in front of a wall with framed pictures of ships on it
Woman in Mill Office, 1958
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: 11/1/1958
Category: Celebrations
Woman sitting on table, picture labeled Nov 1958
Woman with Yarn
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery, Work
Woman inspecting yarn with machine in the background
Group in Front of Battle House
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Administration
Group of men and women in front of Battle House
generator3
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Another different shot of a generator
generator2
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Machine inside mill, maybe a different generator than generator.jpg
generator
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Machine inside mill, maybe a generator
Women Dressed in Costume for Rocky Mount Centennial
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Celebrations
Women in antebellum garb in front of Battle House; same women as in centennial shot.tif
Spools on Machinery
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Roving frames in card room
Lapper Room of Mill
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Lapper Room, with cotton/yarn in the foreground; same as 1055-36
Sepia Photographs of Mill
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Mill Exterior
Two great pictures. The top was taken from below the falls in the riverbed looking toward the falls with mill in background. The bottom is of the mill’s railroad loading area with a railroad car visible
Mill from Bridge over the Tar
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Mill Exterior
Shot of mill taken from the center of bridge across part of the Tar River
Aerial Photograph, Mill and River
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Mill Exterior
Aerial shot of the mill with great shot of the falls, Tar River, and bridge
Falls Road Mill House
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Mill Village
One of the architecturally historic homes in the mill village
Walkway to Battle House
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Administration, Mill Village
Battle House with gravel sidewalk coming from the corner of the house
Office of Rocky Mount Mills
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Administration, Mill Village
Sepia photograph of Battle House with sign on the house that reads “Office of Rocky Mount Mills”
Mill Village House in Spring
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Mill Village
House in the mill village during Spring, spinning wheel on porch
Men on Porch of Battle House
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Administration, Mill Village
Sepia photograph of two men on the porch of Battle House
Table in Mill Testing Department
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
close up of table presumably in testing department with microscope on it
Laboratory and Testing Department
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
wide shot of entire laboratory/testing department
Mill Nurse Checking Blood Pressure
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Work
Nurse checking the blood pressure of a male pressure. Nurse is likely Mildred Lee from p. 20 of Rocky Mount Mills : carded cotton yarns, Rocky Mount, N.C
Mixing Room
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Same image as mixing room.jpg but label only reads “Mixing Room”;
Mixing and Aging Room
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Mixing and Ageing Room with open cotton bales along the sides of each wall; label reads “Mixing and Ageing Room”; Same picture in “Rocky Mount Mills : established 1818…”
Truck Shipping Cotton
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Work
Truck and trailer fully loaded with cotton. Men sitting in the bed of truck on the cotton and one man standing outside the passenger door. Same picture in “Rocky Mount Mills : established 1818…”
View of Mill Foundation
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Mill Exterior
Exterior shot of the mill’s foundation and buttresses
Mill Display Booth
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Celebrations, Displays, Exhibits, and Promotional Material
Booth of mill products and model machines
Aerial Drawing of Mill
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Documents, Mill Exterior
Architectural rendering of RMM from aerial view with Tar River and falls on foreground
Display of Mill Products
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Displays, Exhibits, and Promotional Material
Display of yarns sold produced by RMM
Postcard with Writing
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Documents
Postcard showing view of mill on background with mill pond and falls in foreground,. Transcription: “How are you getting albums?/Are going housekeeping the 1st of November/This is all falls/Come down and we can take a walk/B.R.
1926 Rocky Mount Mill Article
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Documents
Entire reproduced article by H.W. Kendall dated December 12, 1926, entitled “One Cotton Mill in the State Just One Hundred Years Ago” about NC textile industry in general and RMM specifically
1926 Article
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Documents
Top half of reproduced article by H.W. Kendall dated December 12, 1926, entitled “One Cotton Mill in the State Just One Hundred Years Ago” about NC textile industry in general and RMM specifically
Posed in Front of Battle House
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Administration
Group of men standing in front of Battle House
Men Examining Card Room Work
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Administration
Men in suits looking over slubbers in card room
Men in Suits Touring Mill Grounds
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Administration
Men in suits touring the mill grounds
Touring the Mill
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Administration, Machinery
Men in suits walking between two rows of spinning frames
Men Examining Drawing Frame
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Administration, Machinery
Men in suits looking over a drawing frame
Working in the Machine Shop
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery, Work
Man operating a machine in the machine shop, looks to be Alexandria Malpass from p. 17 of Rocky Mount Mills : carded cotton yarns, Rocky Mount, N.C
Inspecting Twisting Machine
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Administration, Machinery
Man in white collar inspecting a twisting machine
Man Examining Whitin Machinery
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Administration, Machinery
Man in suit looking at a machine
Observing Winding Department
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Administration, Machinery
Man in shirt and tie walking along rows of machines in the winding department
Worker Demonstrating Machinery
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Administration, Machinery, Work
Worker operating some type of machine for a man in a suit
Operating a Lathe
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery, Work
Man (Alexandria Malpass) operating a lathe in the machine shop; Same image on p. 17 in Rocky Mount Mills : carded cotton yarns, Rocky Mount, N.C
Row of Winders
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Row of Winders
William Battle
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Administration
Copy of a portrait of a seated man, likely William Battle
Slubber Frames
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Drawing frames and slubber in the card room
Spools, WInding Department
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Spools, possibly in the winding department
close up, Spooling Machinery
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
close up image of spools on spooling machines
Spooling Department Machinery
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Machines in the spooling department
Two Looms, Warping Department
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Two looms in the warping department with spool racks in background
Spool Rack
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery, Work
Man with a bin of spools and spool racks in the background
Eula Willis Blaylock Operating Drawing Frame
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery, Work
Woman (Eula Willis Blaylock) operating a drawing frame; Same image on p. 6 in Rocky Mount Mills : carded cotton yarns, Rocky Mount, N.C
Spooling Frames at Rocky Mount Mills
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Spooling frames; label reads “Section of Spooling Department;’ Same picture in “Rocky Mount Mills : established 1818…”
Later Generation Slubbers
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Card frames and slubbers but modern equipment
Two Rows of Slubbers
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Color image of two rows of slubbers in the card room
Slubber Machinery
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Color image of slubbers; very similar to spinning dept.jpg but image is not as dark
Spinning Machines
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Color image of slubbers
Spinning Department
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Sepia image of the spinning department with interior lights on
Yarn on Frames
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
close up of yarn on either roving frames in the card room or spinning frames
Spooling Machines
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Rows of spooling machines
Spindle Assembly
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Rows of drawing frames with cotton fibers in the card room
Rocky Mount Mills Departments
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Mill Exterior
Four pictures of various parts of the mill: labels read “Finishing Departments;” “Concrete Coal Shute;” “Water Tank for Sprinkler System;” and “Cotton Conveyor Pipe from Mixing Room to Opening Room”
Section of Twister Machines
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Rows of machines in the twisting department; label reads “Section of Twisting”
Section of Cards
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Machines in the card room; label reads “Section of Cards”; Same picture in “Rocky Mount Mills : established 1818…”
Drawing Frames and Slubbers
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Rows of drawing frames and slubbers in the card room; label reads “Section of Card Room”; Same picture in “Rocky Mount Mills : established 1818…”
Drawing Frame Rows
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Rows of drawing frames and slubbers in the card room; label reads “Section of Card Room”
Mill Schoolhouse
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Mill Village
Newspaper picture of a schoolhouse operated by Rocky Mount Mills with two boys sitting on the front steps
Rocky Mount Mills Product
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Displays, Exhibits, and Promotional Material
Room with two tables. One appears to contain yarns and the other is labeled “Products Made From Rocky Mount Mills Yarns”. Display of machine
Roy Hopewell Portrait
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Administration
Seated portrait of Roy Hopewell
Section of Roving Frames
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Rows of machines in the card room; Label reads “Section of Roving Frames in Card Room; Same picture in “Rocky Mount Mills : established 1818…”
Roller Covering Shop
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Room in mill interior with machinery, tables, and machine belts; Label reads “Roller Covering Shop”
Mill from Riverside Park
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Mill Exterior
View of Mill from across the Tar River with falls on right side of image; Label reads “Section of Mills, Dam and Tar River Taken From Riverside Park
Radio Station at the Mill
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Family and Community Life
Women with record player and microphone; maybe where announcements were made over the mill’s loudspeaker
Mill Photographs from 1969
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: 1969
Category: Machinery, Mill Village
Four pictures of the card room and one of a mill house; note reads “Taken in January 1969”
Raising Mill Flag
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Administration, Family and Community Life
Three men raising a flag, not USA or NC flag
Railroad Team
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Family and Community Life
Men in ties and bowties sitting on steps with two African American men on each side and two women and two men in suits standing on porch above them
Picnic Shelter
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Family and Community Life
Sepia image of a picnic shelter
Dunking Booth at Mill Picnic
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: 1993
Category: Celebrations
Color photograph of man in dunking booth
Parade Float 1938
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: 1938
Category: Celebrations
Parade float with three young women; reads “Over a Century of Progress: Rocky Mount Mills”
Parade Float 1947
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: 1947
Category: Celebrations
Parade float with four women on it, two dressed in antebellum garb and the other two dressed in modern clothes; likely from 1947
Packing Department
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Packing room; label reads “Packing Department”; Same picture in “Rocky Mount Mills : established 1818…”
Mills Origin
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Documents
Image with three pictures. One is same portrait as William Battle.jpg; one is faded aerial photograph of the mill; bottom is copy of picture of the mill in 1865
Opening Room with Cotton Being Distributed
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Opener room with cotton placed in the machinery; label reads “Opener Room Showing Cotton Being Distributed to Hoppers”; Same picture in “Rocky Mount Mills : established 1818…”
Mil Floor and Bathrooms
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Central part of the card room between the two sections that contains machines with view of restrooms
Old Rocky Mount Mill Under Construction
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Mill Exterior
Appears to be a very old picture of the mill taken as it was being constructed
Modern Winding Machines
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Color photograph of modern winding machines
Winches, Mill Interior
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Winches along an outside wall in the mill interior
Trash Rake and Mill Pond
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Mill Exterior
Dam’s trash rake with mill in the background and the mill pond in the foreground, taken from pond level
Rocky Mount Mills and Falls
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Mill Exterior
Sepia photograph of the Tar River falls in the foreground and the mill in the background on the opposite side of the river
Waste Mill Exterior
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Mill Exterior
Exterior shot of the waste mill; label reads “Waste Mill”; same image in “Rocky Mount Mills: Established 1818…”
Waste Mill Interior
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Machines in the waste mill; Label reads “Section of Waste Mill Interior”; same image in “Rocky Mount Mills: Established 1818…”
Warping Room in Operation
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Image of Warping Room with machine wheel with twine in the foreground and other machines in the background; similar to threading.tif
Section of Warping Department
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Loom in the warping department; label reads “Section of Warping Department”; same image in “Rocky Mount Mills: Established 1818…”
Walking Through the Mills
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Administration, Machinery
Men in suits walking between rows of machines
Falls of the Tar
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Mill Exterior
View of the falls on the Tar River and metal bridge
Vertical Openers
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Machinery in the opening room; label reads “Arrangement of Vertical Openers”
Jonathan Clee Edwards Unloading Cotton
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery, Work
Man (Jonathan Clee Edwards) feeding cotton into an opening machine; Same image on p. 3 in Rocky Mount Mills : carded cotton yarns, Rocky Mount, N.C
Section of Twisting Department, Rocky Mount Mills
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Rows of twisting machines; Label reads “Section of Twisting Department”; same image in “Rocky Mount Mills: Established 1818…”
Twine Conveyor
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Color photograph of what looks like a conveyor for slubbers
Working Turbines
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Hydroelectric power unit; same image as 1071-36.jpg
Automatic Trash Rake
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery, Work
Man operating automatic trash rack designed to rid the mill turbines of debris; same image in “Rocky Mount Mills: Established 1818…”; label reads “Trash Rack Showing Automatic Rake”; same image as auto trash rack.jpg
Thread Stands
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Winding machines
Rows of Spinners
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Spinning machines
Twisting Machinery, Rocky Mount Mills
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Twisting machines
Slubbing Machinery Working
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Slubbers in the card room with cotton pulled through
Slubbers With Cotton Pulled Through
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Slubbers in the card room with cotton pulled through
Machinery at Rocky Mount Mills
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Piece of cylindrical machinery involved in spooling or twisting; same as 1092-36.jpg
Warping Room and Loom
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Image of Warping Room with close up of loom in the foreground
Photograph of Warping Room
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Image of Warping Room with machine wheel with twine in the foreground and other machines in the background
Warping Machine With Thread and Racks
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Image of warping machines that show the thread that comes from the spools on racks
Drawing Frames and Slubber Frames
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Drawing frames and slubbers in the card room
Bins of Cotton Spools
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Twisting Department with bins of cotton spools in foreground and twisting machines in the background
Testing Room Equipment at the Mills
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
close up of table presumably in testing department with microscope on it; almost the exact same as office2.jpg and testing room2.jpg
Testing Room and Equipment
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
close up of table presumably in testing department with microscope on it; almost the exact same as office2.jpg
Testing Room Equipment
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Table in the testing department with microscope and windows in background; similar to office2.jpg
Testing Department at the Mills
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Testing department with various pieces of equipment; Same picture in “Rocky Mount Mills : established 1818…”
Rocky Mount Mills Supervisors
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Administration
Staged picture of mill supervisors, both men and women; image on p. 19 of Rocky Mount Mills : carded cotton yarns, Rocky Mount, N.C; Same age as employees.jpeg
Color Image, Carding Machines
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Color images of what seem to be modern carding machines; very similar to super carding machine.jpg
Modern Carding Machines
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Color images of what seem to be modern carding machines
Interior of Steam Plant
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Interior of the steam plant with close up of a machine in the foreground; Same picture in “Rocky Mount Mills : established 1818…”
Staff Meeting, Rocky Mount Mills
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Administration
Men sitting around a square table taking notes and smoking
Twisting Machines
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Twisting machines
Safety Award Meal 1989
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Awards, 1970s-1990s
Date: 10/18/1989
Category: Awards and Ceremonies
RMM treated its employees to a catered mill because of the safe hours award presented to the mill by Liberty Mutual Insurance on October 18, 1989
Safety Award 1989
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Awards, 1970s-1990s
Date: 10/18/1989
Category: Awards and Ceremonies
Award presented to RMM administrators by a representative of Liberty Mutual Insurance because of one million safe work hours at the mill on October 18, 1989
Safety Award 1986
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Awards, 1970s-1990s
Date: 10/9/1986
Category: Awards and Ceremonies
Award presented to RMM administrators by a representative of Liberty Mutual Insurance because of one million safe work hours at the mill on October 9, 1986
Safety Award 1985
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Awards, 1970s-1990s
Date: 2/11/1985
Category: Awards and Ceremonies
Award presented to RMM administrators by a representative of Liberty Mutual Insurance because of one million safe work hours at the mill on February 11,1985
Safe Work Hours Award
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Awards, 1970s-1990s
Date: 3/19/1992
Category: Awards and Ceremonies
Award presented to a group of RMM employees by a representative of NC’s department of labor because of one million safe work hours at the mill on March 19,1992
Oldest Worker Award
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Awards, 1970s-1990s
Date: 3/14/1991
Category: Awards and Ceremonies
City of Rocky Mount presents an award to Joseph A. Pope, an employee of Rocky Mount Mills, for being the city’s oldest worker on March 14, 1991. A penciled note states that he was 80 years old
Return of Normal Water Level After Hurricane Floyd
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Awards, 1970s-1990s
Date: 1999
Category: Mill Exterior
Normal water level of Tar River flowing over the mill dam as a way to compare to the high water mark of Hurricane Floyd
Merit Award 1983
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Awards, 1970s-1990s
Date: 4/25/1983
Category: Awards and Ceremonies
Award presented to RMM administration and one worker by Liberty Mutual Insurance Company because 632,000 hours without a lost time accident on April 25, 1983
Impact of Hurricane Floyd, Rocky Mount Mills
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Awards, 1970s-1990s
Date: 1999
Category: Mill Exterior
High water of the Tar River in the aftermath of Hurricane Floyd
Impact of Hurricane Floyd at the Mill
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Awards, 1970s-1990s
Date: 1999
Category: Mill Exterior
High water over Tar River falls in the aftermath of Hurricane Floyd with river flowing within a grove of trees
High Water at the Mill, Hurricane Floyd
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Awards, 1970s-1990s
Date: 1999
Category: Mill Exterior
High water over Tar River falls in the aftermath of Hurricane Floyd with tree branches caught in a fence along the river
High Water, Hurricane Floyd
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Awards, 1970s-1990s
Date: 1999
Category: Mill Exterior
High water over Tar River falls in the aftermath of Hurricane Floyd
40 Year Award 1989
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Awards, 1970s-1990s
Date: 12/22/1989
Category: Awards and Ceremonies
Mill president Thomas Battle presents a mill employee (Christine T. Edwards) with 35-year service award on December 22, 1989
35 Year Award 1993
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Awards, 1970s-1990s
Date: 12/16/1993
Category: Awards and Ceremonies
Mill president John M. Mebane, Jr., presents Benjamin F. Vick with an award for 35 years of service on December 16,1993
35 Year Award 1991
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Awards, 1970s-1990s
Date: 12/21/1991
Category: Awards and Ceremonies
Mill vice-president John M. Mebane, Jr. presents employees, including mill president Thomas Battle, with 35 and 40-year service awards; given on December 20, 1991
35 Year Award 1990
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Awards, 1970s-1990s
Date: 12/21/1990
Category: Awards and Ceremonies
Mill president Thomas Battle presents employees with awards for 35, 40, and 45 years of service; description lists their names; given on December 21, 1990
35 Year Award 1988
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Awards, 1970s-1990s
Date: 12/21/1988
Category: Awards and Ceremonies
Mill president Thomas Battle presents three employees with awards for 35 years of service; description lists their names; given on December 16, 1988
35 Year Award 1987
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Awards, 1970s-1990s
Date: 12/16/1987
Category: Awards and Ceremonies
Mill president Thomas Battle presents three employees with awards for 35 years of service; description lists their names; given on December 21, 1988
35 Year Award 1986
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Awards, 1970s-1990s
Date: 12/19/1986
Category: Awards and Ceremonies
Mill vice-president John M. Mebane, Jr. presents three employees, including mill president Thomas Battle, with 35-year service awards; given on December 18, 1986
35 Year Award 1985
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Awards, 1970s-1990s
Date: 12/19/1985
Category: Awards and Ceremonies
Mill president Thomas Battle presents two employees with awards for 35 years of service; description lists their names; given on December 19, 1985
35 Year Award 1984
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Awards, 1970s-1990s
Date: 12/20/1984
Category: Awards and Ceremonies
Mill president Thomas Battle presents two employees with awards for 35 years of service; description lists their names; given on December 20, 1984
35 Year Award 1983
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Awards, 1970s-1990s
Date: 12/21/1983
Category: Awards and Ceremonies
Mill president Thomas Battle presents a mill employee (Lena Braswell) with 35-year service award on December 21, 1983
35 Year Award 1982
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Awards, 1970s-1990s
Date: 12/23/1982
Category: Awards and Ceremonies
Mill president Thomas Battle presents a mill employee (Billy G. Vick) with 35-year service award on December 23, 1982
35 Year Award 1981
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Awards, 1970s-1990s
Date: 12/18/1981
Category: Awards and Ceremonies
Mill president Thomas Battle presents this group of employees with awards for 35 years of service; description lists their names; given on December 18, 1981
35 Year Award 1980
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Awards, 1970s-1990s
Date: 12/19/1980
Category: Awards and Ceremonies
Mill president Thomas Battle presents this group of employees with awards for 35 years of service; description lists their names; given on December 19, 1980
35 Year Award 1979
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Awards, 1970s-1990s
Date: 12/21/1979
Category: Awards and Ceremonies
Mill president Thomas Battle presents two employees with awards for 35 years of service; description lists their names; given on December 21, 1979
35 Year Award 1978
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Awards, 1970s-1990s
Date: 12/20/1978
Category: Awards and Ceremonies
Mill president Thomas Battle presents this group of employees with awards for 35 years of service; description lists their names; given on December 20, 1978
35 Year Award 1977
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Awards, 1970s-1990s
Date: 12/23/1977
Category: Awards and Ceremonies
Same image as 35 Year Award 1977 Copy.jpg but with a typed description that explains that mill president Thomas Battle presents this group of employees with awards 35 years of service; description lists their names; given on December 23, 1977
35 Year Award 1977 Copy
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Awards, 1970s-1990s
Date: 12/23/1977
Category: Awards and Ceremonies
Five men and one woman dressed up with two of the men together holding a clock, possibly some type of award
Loom and Racks of Spools
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Loom in the warping department with racks of spools in background; label reads “Rocky Mount Mills Cotton Yarns Rocky Mount, N.C.”
Riverside Twine Packed
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Room in mill interior with machinery and packing boxes labeled “Riverside Cotton Twine”; same as 1090-36.jpg
Yarn Spools and Bin
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Rack of yarn spools with a bin full of yarn in the foreground
Wooten School
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Mill Village
A schoolhouse in the RMM village; same image as schoolhouse photo.jpg
Women Sweeping
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Administration
Three women using hand brooms to jokingly sweep a man in a suit
Operating Drawing Frame
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery, Work
Woman (Eula Willis Blaylock) operating a drawing frame; Same image on p. 6 in Rocky Mount Mills : carded cotton yarns, Rocky Mount, N.C; same as spool loader.jpg
Operating Automatic Winder
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery, Work
Woman (Ruth Williams Howell) operating an automatic winder; Same image on p. 9 in Rocky Mount Mills : carded cotton yarns, Rocky Mount, N.C
Mary Louise Langston and and William David Howell Working
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery, Work
Man (William David Howell) and woman (Mary Louise Langston) operating machines in the winding room; Same image on p. 11 in Rocky Mount Mills : carded cotton yarns, Rocky Mount, N.C
Photograph of Winding Machines
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Photo Archive
Date: Unknown
Category: Machinery
Color photograph of modern winding machines; almost the same as winding machine.jpg
Letter to Rocky Mount Mayor, 3
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Records, 1804-2007
Date: 4/19/1996
Category: Administration, Documents
Draft of a letter to the Mayor regarding the closing of the plant, is the same letter sent to Scott Ralls.
Letter to Rocky Mount Mayor, 2
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Records, 1804-2007
Date: 4/19/1996
Category: Administration, Documents
Draft of a letter to the Mayor regarding the closing of the plant, is the same letter sent to Scott Ralls.
Letter to Rocky Mount Mayor, 1
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Records, 1804-2007
Date: 4/19/1996
Category: Administration, Documents
Draft of a letter to the Mayor regarding the closing of the plant, is the same letter sent to Scott Ralls.
Scot Ralls Letter, 3
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Records, 1804-2007
Date: 4/19/1996
Category: Administration, Documents
Draft of a letter to Scott Ralls required by the WARN act, contains information such as the number of people in each specific job that will be affected by the closing of the plant
Scot Ralls Letter, 2
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Records, 1804-2007
Date: 4/19/1996
Category: Administration, Documents
Draft of a letter to Scott Ralls required by the WARN act, contains information such as the number of people in each specific job that will be affected by the closing of the plant
Scot Ralls Letter, 1
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Records, 1804-2007
Date: 4/19/1996
Category: Administration, Documents
Draft of a letter to Scott Ralls required by the WARN act, contains information such as the number of people in each specific job that will be affected by the closing of the plant
Mill Closing Letter Draft
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Records, 1804-2007
Date: 4/22/1996
Category: Administration, Documents
Draft of a letter to employees regarding the closing of the mill
WARN Act Letter, Page 6
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Records, 1804-2007
Date: 4/19/1996
Category: Administration, Documents
Fax explains the company’s responsibilities to its employees. Particularly relevant is a draft of a letter informing employees of the mill closure, information concerning compliance with the Workers Adjustment and Retraining Act, a letter to the mayor of Rocky Mount about the closure, and a description of all the jobs that will be affected by the closure.
WARN Act Letter, Page 5
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Records, 1804-2007
Date: 4/19/1996
Category: Administration, Documents
Fax explains the company’s responsibilities to its employees. Particularly relevant is a draft of a letter informing employees of the mill closure, information concerning compliance with the Workers Adjustment and Retraining Act, a letter to the mayor of Rocky Mount about the closure, and a description of all the jobs that will be affected by the closure.
WARN Act Letter, Page 4
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Records, 1804-2007
Date: 4/19/1996
Category: Administration, Documents
Fax explains the company’s responsibilities to its employees. Particularly relevant is a draft of a letter informing employees of the mill closure, information concerning compliance with the Workers Adjustment and Retraining Act, a letter to the mayor of Rocky Mount about the closure, and a description of all the jobs that will be affected by the closure.
WARN Act Letter, Page 3
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Records, 1804-2007
Date: 4/19/1996
Category: Administration, Documents
Fax explains the company’s responsibilities to its employees. Particularly relevant is a draft of a letter informing employees of the mill closure, information concerning compliance with the Workers Adjustment and Retraining Act, a letter to the mayor of Rocky Mount about the closure, and a description of all the jobs that will be affected by the closure.
WARN Act Letter, Page 2
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Records, 1804-2007
Date: 4/19/1996
Category: Administration, Documents
Fax explains the company’s responsibilities to its employees. Particularly relevant is a draft of a letter informing employees of the mill closure, information concerning compliance with the Workers Adjustment and Retraining Act, a letter to the mayor of Rocky Mount about the closure, and a description of all the jobs that will be affected by the closure.
WARN Act Letter, Page 1
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Records, 1804-2007
Date: 4/19/1996
Category: Administration, Documents
Fax explains the company’s responsibilities to its employees. Particularly relevant is a draft of a letter informing employees of the mill closure, information concerning compliance with the Workers Adjustment and Retraining Act, a letter to the mayor of Rocky Mount about the closure, and a description of all the jobs that will be affected by the closure.
WARN Act Letter
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Records, 1804-2007
Date: 4/19/1996
Category: Administration, Documents
Letter from David Grogan to John Mebane regarding a letter addressing the WARN act and other various subjects, the letter is enclosed.
Draft, Letter to Shareholders (3)
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Records, 1804-2007
Date: 4/29/1996
Category: Administration, Documents
Explains that the mill will cease operation on June 22, 1996, and more general information on how the liquidation is proceeding, such as notifying employees, paying creditors, curtailing operation costs, etc.
Draft, Letter to Shareholders (2)
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Records, 1804-2007
Date: 4/29/1996
Category: Administration, Documents
Explains that the mill will cease operation on June 22, 1996, and more general information on how the liquidation is proceeding, such as notifying employees, paying creditors, curtailing operation costs, etc.
Draft, Letter to Shareholders (1)
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Records, 1804-2007
Date: 4/29/1996
Category: Administration, Documents
Explains that the mill will cease operation on June 22, 1996, and more general information on how the liquidation is proceeding, such as notifying employees, paying creditors, curtailing operation costs, etc.
Grogan Letter
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Records, 1804-2007
Date: 4/29/1996
Category: Administration, Documents
Letter from David Grogan to Johnny Gates regarding a draft of the liquidation plan for shareholders, the draft was enclosed.
Mebane Letter to Creditors
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Records, 1804-2007
Date: 5/18/1996
Category: Administration, Documents
Letter provides more information on why the mill decided to close. Mebane provides three specific reasons: 1) liquidating now will allow the company to pay off all its creditors 2) projected losses would threaten ability to pay off loans 3) mill would suffer further financial losses based on future market projections. The company has also selected a company willing to buy its machinery and has plans in place for future sales of assets. Also notes that the company will try to avoid bankruptcy
John Mebane Letter to Creditors
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Records, 1804-2007
Date: 5/18/1996
Category: Administration, Documents
Letter provides more information on why the mill decided to close. Mebane provides three specific reasons: 1) liquidating now will allow the company to pay off all its creditors 2) projected losses would threaten ability to pay off loans 3) mill would suffer further financial losses based on future market projections. The company has also selected a company willing to buy its machinery and has plans in place for future sales of assets. Also notes that the company will try to avoid bankruptcy
Liquidation Cash Forecast
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Records, 1804-2007
Date: 4/30/1996
Category: Administration, Documents
Contains information regarding forecasted cash requirements and sales
Staff Release Dates
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Records, 1804-2007
Date: 1996
Category: Administration, Documents
The release dates of 28 staff members and details about additional pay for them.
Supporting Schedules 5
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Records, 1804-2007
Date: 3/31/1996
Category: Administration, Documents
Supporting Schedules to liquidation analysis for Rocky Mount Mills March 31, 1996
Supporting Schedules 4
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Records, 1804-2007
Date: 3/31/1996
Category: Administration, Documents
Supporting Schedules to liquidation analysis for Rocky Mount Mills March 31, 1996
Supporting Schedules 3
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Records, 1804-2007
Date: 3/31/1996
Category: Administration, Documents
Supporting Schedules to liquidation analysis for Rocky Mount Mills March 31, 1996
Supporting Schedules 2
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Records, 1804-2007
Date: 3/31/1996
Category: Administration, Documents
Supporting Schedules to liquidation analysis for Rocky Mount Mills March 31, 1996
Supporting Schedules 1
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Records, 1804-2007
Date: 3/31/1996
Category: Administration, Documents
Supporting Schedules to liquidation analysis for Rocky Mount Mills March 31, 1996
Balance Sheet, March 1996 (2)
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Records, 1804-2007
Date: 3/31/1996
Category: Administration, Documents
Liquidation analysis balance Sheet for Rocky Mount Mills on March 31, 1996
Balance Sheet, March 1996 (1)
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Records, 1804-2007
Date: 3/31/1996
Category: Administration, Documents
Balance Sheet for Rocky Mount Mills on March 31, 1996
Closure Letter
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Records, 1804-2007
Date: 4/24/1996
Category: Administration, Documents
Mebane, current president of RMM is explaining the reasons for the mill closure, citing operating losses and inability to meet creditors’ demands in the long term. He also outlines how liquidation will proceed with the mill distributing funds to all creditors equally and selling its machinery and existing materials.
Safety Award Meal
Archival Collection: Rocky Mount Mills Awards, 1970s-1990s
Date: 2/11/1985
Category: Awards and Ceremonies
RMM treated its employees to a catered mill because of the safe hours award presented to the mill by Liberty Mutual Insurance on February 11, 1985
Kermit and Doris Paris and others on Carr St.
Archival Collection: Community Members
Date: 1940s
Category: Mill Village, People
Melody Bardowell’s grandparents and others on Carr St. c. 1940s
Newspaper Article on Kermit Paris for 52 Years of Mill Service
Archival Collection: Community Members
Date: 13-Jan-97
Category: People
Rocky Mount Telegram article from January 13, 1997 on Kermit Paris for his 52 years of service to Rocky Mount Mills
Report Card from Rocky Mount Mills School
Archival Collection: Community Members
Date: 1946
Category: Family and Community Life, Mill Village
Geraldine Blackman’s (nee Hall) report card from the last year of Rocky Mount Mills School
Report Card from Rocky Mount Mills School, 1936-1940
Archival Collection: Community Members
Date: 1937
Category: Family and Community Life, Mill Village
Barbara Coley Kea’s report cards from Rocky Mount Mills School from 1936-1940
Barbara Coley Kea Walking to the Mill
Archival Collection: Community Members
Date: 1940
Category: People, Work
Barbara Coley Kea is walking to work at the mill
Women in a Boat Behind Mill
Archival Collection: Community Members
Date: 1940
Category: Family and Community Life, People
Barbara Coley Kea, Cleo O’Connell, and Pauline (last name?) in boat behind mill
Truett Alton Kea Sr. Photos Around Rocky Mount and the Mill
Archival Collection: Community Members
Date: 1947
Category: People
Truett Alton Kea Sr. in a series of photographs around Rocky Mount and the mill
Truett and Barbara Coley Kea Photographs Around the Mill
Archival Collection: Community Members
Date: 1940
Category: Family and Community Life, People
Truett and Barbara Coley Kea pose for photographs along the riverbank, in back of a mill house, and in front of the Confederate monument in Battle Park
Barbara Coley Kea Photographs Around the Mill
Archival Collection: Community Members
Date: 1940
Category: Mill Exterior, Mill Village, People
Barbara Coley Kea on bridge, dam by the mill, and at mill house
Barbara Coley Kea Photographs at 14 River Dr. and at the Mill
Archival Collection: Community Members
Date: 1947
Category: Mill Exterior, Mill Village, People
Barbara Coley Kea poses for photographs at 14 River Dr, at the dam, and by the mill
Samantha Coley and Children
Archival Collection: Community Members
Date: 1920s; 1940s
Category: Mill Village, People
Samantha Coley poses with her children and by herself around the mill village
Barbara Coley Kea and Cleo O’Connell at The Falls
Archival Collection: Community Members
Date: 1940s
Category: Mill Exterior, People
Barbara Coley Kea (R) and Cleo O’Connell (L) pose for a photograph on the riverbank with the mill in the background
Barbara Coley Kea and Cleo O’Connell at 14 River Dr.
Archival Collection: Community Members
Date: 1940s
Category: Mill Village, People
Barbara Coley Kea (L) and Cleo O’Connell (R) sit in front of 14 River Dr. in the mill village
Photograph of Downtown Rocky Mount
Archival Collection: Community Members
Date: 1964
Category: Family and Community Life
Photograph of downtown Rocky Mount, courtesy of Lewis Musser
Postcard of Downtown Rocky Mount
Archival Collection: Community Members
Date: 1940s
Category: Displays, Exhibits, and Promotional Material
Postcard of downtown Rocky Mount
Lincoln Park Historic District Recognition and Marker Unveiling Ceremony Program Cover
Archival Collection: Community Members
Date: 7-Jun-12
Category: Family and Community Life
Cover for the ceremony program for Lincoln Park Historic District’s recognition and marker unveiling event
Exterior Photographs of 10 W. Elm. St., c. 1980s
Archival Collection: Community Members
Date: 1980s
Category: Mill Village
Exterior photographs from multiple angles of 10 W. Elm St., a mill house in the mill village
Christmas Festivities at the Mill
Archival Collection: Community Members
Date: 1990s
Category: Celebrations, People, Work
Mill employees get together to eat and chat around Christmastime
Coley Family, c. 1920-50s
Archival Collection: Community Members
Date: 1920s - 1950s
Category: Family and Community Life, Mill Village, People
A group of 4 photographs, ranging from 1920s-1950s. Top Left, Samantha Coley, Mill Village school in background. Outside of house at 14 River Drive. Top Right, 1959, Great Grandma Moore (Mother of Samantha). Bottom Left, Samantha Coley, her children Ernest (L) and James, Mabel (Mother of donor Miriam) just out of frame on R. Bottom Right, Samantha Coley (b. 1900) and Percy Coley (b. 1889), both worked at mill. Married in 1914.
Barbara Coley Kea, c. 1948
Archival Collection: Community Members
Date: 1948
Category: People
Head shot of Rocky Mount Mills employee Barbara Coley Kea
Percy, James, Mabel, and Ernest Coley
Archival Collection: Community Members
Date: 1940s
Category: Mill Village, People
Percy, James, Mabel, and Ernest Coley stand shoulder-to-shoulder with each other in what appears to by the mill village.
Barbara Coley Kea, c. 1945
Archival Collection: Community Members
Date: 1945
Category: People
Portrait photograph of former mill employee Barbara Coley Kea from 1945.
Percy and Samantha Coley, c. 1920s
Archival Collection: Community Members
Date: 1920s
Category: People
Three photographs that show Percy and Samantha Coley, mill employees, at different stages of life in different locations.
Mabel Coley Sykes, c. 1938
Archival Collection: Community Members
Date: 1938
Category: People
Mabel Coley Sykes. Daughter of Percy and Samantha Coley. Worked at Rocky Mount Mills in the 1940s.
Samantha Coley at her flower shop
Archival Collection: Community Members
Date: 1967
Category: Mill Village, People
Samantha Coley, during Centennial of Rocky Mount, 1967. At 14 River Drive, in her florist shop. Samantha also sold fishing worms.
Rocky Mount Mills Panorama
Archival Collection: Community Members
Date: 1904-1905
Category: Mill Exterior
Image of the mill and the bridge. Courtesy of John Mebane
Falls of the Tar River and Steel Bridge c. 1905
Archival Collection: Community Members
Date: 1905
Category: Mill Exterior
Exterior image of the Falls and the bridge. Courtesy of John Mebane
Rocky Mount Mills c. 1904 from Battle Park
Archival Collection: Community Members
Date: 1904
Category: Mill Exterior
Image of the mill from across the river from Battle Park. Courtesy of John Mebane
Barbara and Cleta Coley by Mill House (14 River Drive)
Archival Collection: Community Members
Date: 1930s
Category: Mill Village, People
A young Barbara Coley Kea and Cleta Coley Barkley take a photo at the corner of house 14 River Drive in the mill village.
Barbara and Cleta Coley outside of Mill House (14 River Drive)
Archival Collection: Community Members
Date: 1930s
Category: People
A very young Barbara Coley Kea holds her sister Cleta in front of 14 River Drive.
