Alden Knitting Mills, Paducah

Identifier

http://dp.la/api/items/2f1061a296799ac5ca210ce27a0ec54a

Title

Alden Knitting Mills, Paducah

Creator

Riley & Cook (photographer)

Date

1900

Description

A two-story brick building with white-clad girls and women sitting in or leaning from a few of its open windows. The building, at which hosiery is produced, emits dark smoke from its chimney. Two white ducks stand at the edge of the dirt sidewalk in front of the building, and one duck walks nearby along the edge of the dirt road, blurred in motion.
7 1/4 x 9 1/2 in. b&w photographic print. Item no. 1977.01.250 in the Arthur Younger Ford photograph album collection, University of Louisville Photographic Archives.

Subject

Mills
Textile industry
Textile mill workers
Buildings
Industrial facilities
Women
Girls

Source

Digital Library of Georgia

Relation

http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/lru/ford/do-th:214

Type

image

References

http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ford/id/214

Citation

Riley & Cook (photographer), “Alden Knitting Mills, Paducah,” Center for Knit and Crochet Digital Repository, accessed July 7, 2026, https://digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/items/show/5672.

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