In the quality control department of the Burlington Mill, yarn is tested for its strength. The yarn is subjected to various tests including abrasion test, tensile strength test and others tests. Close up of the Burlington Mill logo on a fabric roll.
Rural life in the Southern Mountains of Tennessee and Kentucky in the United States. A water stream. Trees and rocks on either side of the stream. Children fetch water in buckets from the stream. View of wooden houses. Children stand in a barnyard. Two women and several children, dressed in their best, stand outside a house, with an old man who feeds grain to a hen and baby chicks. View of wooden house, with wood shingle roof and central stone chimney.
Depicts industry and modernization coming into rural Appalchia in the early 1900s. A steam locomotive pulling a long line of train cars moves along the mountain side, leaving a trail of smoke in the Appalachian Mountain, near Smyth County Virginia. Man, woman and children wave at the coming train. Cow grazes in field. A steam shovel excavating a site. Vehicles drive past on a dirt road newly carved into a mountain side. Two men sawing a tree with a two-person saw. The tree falls. Horse carries wooden logs from the forest area. Logs being milled into lumber pieces at a saw mill. Giant saw blade spinning and cutting the wood. Factories with smoke spewing from chimneys. Rural coal mine buildings, some up high on stilts. A man operating an electrically powered, belt-driven lathe to turn lumber into round handles for tools. A rural preacher with a bible at an outdoor site, preaching in front of a corn field. Slates indicate that he is preaching against worldly education, and in favor of biblical learning only. reaches to people. A stone on a building with the words, "Marion Junior College. 1873." The preacher waving the bible in his hand. A teenage boy seated in a rocking chair on a porch reading a book.
Rocky mountains in the United States. Riders and pack horses move on steep trail. Train passes through topographic model of Royal Gorge and surrounding mountains. Animation map depicts the places like Royal Gorge of Arkansas river Leadville,Pikes Peak,Garden of the Gods,Foothills,Denver,Colorado Springs and Canyon City. Track suspended from canyon sides. Train moves under a tunnel. Smoke comes from a chimney. View of huge rocks. Mountains in the background.
Educational inequalities between schools for whites and African Americans. Friendship Baptist College, Rock Hill, supported by African American Baptists. The buildings, quarters, compound and playground of the college. Students of the college doing the daily tasks like cleaning, laundry all by themselves. The poor conditions of the school buildings, classrooms and quarters, with broken glasses and doors. Man walking down rickety, shaking stairs. Students assembled in outside yard.
Plant biologists working on an experimental peanut farm at the North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina. Scientists seek improved strains of peanuts resulting from irradiation of seed. Large sized peanuts are shown resulting from such experimentation. A boy is shown buying such peanuts from a street vendor. The boy opens his eyes wide at the large sized nuts.
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