Historic Alabama: Stitched into time

An early look at Baker Cotton Mills in Mobile

This photo from the Library of Congress shows what the caption calls a typical worker in Barker Cotton Mills in Mobile. Though undated, other photos from the mill are dated 1914. The mill opened in 1900 in a portion of Mobile that is now Prichard. The mill, then called Cotton Mills Products Co., burned in 1943.

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