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George's River Mills Order Books

 Collection
Identifier: 6660

Scope and Contents

5 order books arranged by customer name with samples (swatches) of cloth ordered by each customer pasted in.

Dates

  • 1883-1887

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference archivist for access to these materials.

Conditions Governing Use

This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.

Biographical / Historical

George's River Mills a woolen manufacturer in Warren, Maine, controlled by Allen-Lane Company, Boston. Allen-Lane was a firm of wholesale wool commission merchants which also controlled several mills.

Extent

1.3 cubic feet

Language of Materials

English

Custodial History

American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of the Baker Library.

Processing Information

The ATHM # references the accession number given to collections by the American Textile History Museum (ATHM). These numbers have been kept and tracked for researchers looking for former citations. The ATHM accession number for this collection was 0022.128.

Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository

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