American Textile History Museum
Found in 689 Collections and/or Records:
Irving W. Winn Papers
Irwin Laverne Powers Papers
Chemistry notebooks with cloth samples, from Powers' work at Silver Spring Bleaching & Dyeing Company, Providence, Rhode Island. Also notes concerning linen bleaching & dyes and dyestuffs. Also essay on history of dyes and dyestuffs written by Powers' daughter, Dorothy Powers, while she was a student at Thayer Academy, Braintree, Massachusetts. She mentions her father's role in synthetic dye manufacture.
J. C. Hilliard Mill Insurance Files
Collection of research notes and mill diagrams created and used on Hilliard's visits to textile mills in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont.
J. Craig Huff, Jr. Papers
Collection contains reports of mill visits, 1948-1965, made by Huff as a sales representative for Draper Company, textile machinery manufacturers, Hopedale, Massachusetts. Arranged chronologically, with a list of mills included at beginning of each report. Also includes Draper Company related records from the 1940s to the 1960s, correspondence, a speech given by Huff to the Textile Society of Canada, 1952, "Fixing high speed looms to standard," and notes on machinery and other matters.
J. Wallace Smith Papers
Includes notes on finishing and dyeing and styles at Wood and Washington Mills, a scrapbook of printed articles about woolens, dyeing, and notes on other textiles. Also includes a brief note on Smith's work history.
Jacob Spangler Record Book
Record of a dyeing and fulling mill in Reamstown, Pennsylvania; includes amount dyed, color and charges.
James A. Gallup Papers
Notebook, ca. 1840, includes information on sorting and scouring of wool, oiling, carding, sizing, weaving, etc. Also included in collection is Gallup's personal account book, 1841-1844, in which he lists cash he received for work, social events attended, etc. He also notes two people who left for Lowell, Massachusetts.
James Broadley Worsted Spinning Notebook
Worsted spinning notebook.
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- Subject
- Textile industry 444
- Textile workers 168
- Woolen and worsted manufacture 149
- Textile machinery 141
- Cotton manufacture 130
- Textile factories 94
- Dyes and dyeing 72
- Weaving. 62
- Industrial relations 54
- Textile machinery industry 53
- Textile manufacturers 52
- Manufacturers' agents 47
- Looms. 45
- Wool industry 44
- Lawrence (Mass.) 43
- Wages. 39
- Textile fabrics 36
- Women textile workers 33
- Spinning machinery 32
- Wool 28
- Yarn 28
- Carding-machines 26
- Payrolls. 25
- Industries 24
- Carding 23
- Spinning 23
- Lowell (Mass.) 22
- Silk industry 20
- Textile finishing 20
- Swatches (Dry-goods) 19
- Woolen and worsted machinery 19
- Cotton machinery 18
- Knitting machines 18
- Labor 18
- Male employees 17
- Textile schools 17
- Cotton 16
- Advertising 15
- Child labor. 15
- Flannel 15
- Textile printing 15
- Water-power. 15
- Textile research 14
- Weavers 14
- Knit goods industry 13
- Patents. 13
- Clothing and dress 12
- Cotton trade 12
- Merrimack River (N.H. and Mass.) 12
- Women employees 12
- Business records 11
- Hosiery industry 11
- Labor unions 11
- Linen industry 11
- Strikes and lockouts 11
- Textile Workers' Strike, Lawrence, Mass., 1912 11
- Winding machines 11
- Business enterprises 10
- Flax industry 10
- Sheep. 10
- Textile chemistry 10
- Textile design 10
- Andover (Mass.) 9
- Cotton fabrics 9
- Dams. 9
- Dye industry 9
- Inventors. 9
- Machine shops 9
- North Andover (Mass.) 9
- Rug and carpet industry 9
- Taunton (Mass.) 9
- Trade associations 9
- Wool scouring 9
- Woolen and worsted finishing 9
- Woolen and worsted spinning 9
- Worcester (Mass.) 9
- World War, 1914-1918 9
- Coverlets 8
- Fashion. 8
- Women's clothing 8
- Wool-carding 8
- Worsted 8
- Bleaching industry 7
- Combing machines 7
- Cotton textiles 7
- Dry-goods. 7
- Employee rules 7
- Machinists 7
- Manchester (N.H.) 7
- Mill agents 7
- Pickers (Weaving) 7
- Real property 7
- Textile fibers 7
- World War, 1939-1945 7
- Belts and belting 6
- Blankets 6
- Boston (Mass.) 6
- Cloth labels 6
- Clothing trade 6
- Cotton spinning 6 + ∧ less