Irving W. Winn Papers

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Identifier: 6757/004

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Scope and Contents

Records include student notes, 1948-1954, with illustrations and samples (swatches) from a dye laboratory, a machine tool laboratory, and reports of experiments for courses on cotton manufacture, textile engineering physics, and textile testing. Also includes examinations, reports, and notes from courses on cotton finishing, cotton manufacture, color, chemistry, mill engineering, and time study. A report of a tour in 1950 of them Pequot Mills, a cotton manufacturer in Salem, Massachusetts is also included. There are also a few items from Winn's time with the Army, and letters, 1963, concerning Winn's search for employment at Deering, Milliken Research Corp., Whitin Machine Works, Curtis and Marble Machine Company, and the American Cyanamind Company.

Dates

1948-1952

Creator

Winn, Irving W. (creator, Person)

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

Winn was a student from 1948 to 1952 at the Lowell Textile Institute, Lowell, Massachusetts. He earned a B.S. in Textile Engineering, joined the U.S. Army, ca. 1953-1954, and worked at the Army Chemical Center in Maryland. He appears to have worked at the Continental Mills, Lewiston, Maine, and was employed in the 1960s by the Development Department of Deering, Milliken Research Corp. in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Extent

1 cubic feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Custodial History

American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of Irving Winn.

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 0022.437. When the materials had been processed by the ATHM, we kept the records in the original order but sometimes the box and folders numbers will change. The old numbers appear in the processing note, the box and folder are the numbers that immediately follow the accession number. For instance, the number 0022.437.1.3, would indicate that the material was formerly in Box 1, Folder 3.