[Bedroom and living room in company-owned home of workers at Highland Cotton Mills, High Point, North Carolina]

Durham, North Carolina. Farmers listening to sales talk of patent medicine vendor in warehouse during tobacco auctions.

[Worker applying machine-sewn edge to chair, Tomlinson Chair Manufacturing Company, High Point, North Carolina]

[Worker using automatic stroke (HGS) sander, Tomlinson Chair Manufacturing Company, High Point, North Carolina]

[Workers grinding knives on top ground-heads moulder, Tomlinson Chair Manufacturing Company, High Point, North Carolina]

The Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan stands with other Klan members during a KKK gathering in the mountains of North Carolina

[Worker using pickers tender, first process after cotton came in mill, Pickett Yarn Mill, High Point, North Carolina]

[Semi-skilled card operative piecing up ends, showing man and machine in action, Pickett Yarn Mill, High Point, North Carolina]