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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.