Cotton mill, commercial features : a text-book for the use of textile schools and investors
A technical handbook on cotton mill construction and management, written and published by Southern industrialist Daniel Augustus Tompkins in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1899 for textile school students and mill investors. Halftone photographs and line drawings show mill villages, operatives' cottages, company stores, churches, brick factory blocks with rows of windows, plus machinery diagrams and site plans useful for industrial and vernacular architecture reference.






































































