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Fulton, New York. Gelatin silver print. Image depicts a two-story mill building with a very tall tower in the right rear. Open ground in front of the building with a cement walk leading through the foreground to the left. A sticker on the back of the photograph reads: "1908 Agents' Meeting American Woolen Co. Fulton, N.Y. June 10."

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Fulton, New York. Gelatin silver print, ca. 1908. Image depicts two three-story mill buildings (possibly connected in the center) and a three-story gabled, mock-Tudor building on the far left. The Oswego River is in the foreground; a glimpse of an iron railing is in the lower left corner, presumably part of a bridge or walkway over the river. Some trees in front of the buildings and on an island in the river.

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Copy print of: Portrait of William Madison Wood. Gelatin silver print, [after 1862]; original photo, [ca. 1900?]. Image depicts William M. Wood (1858-1926), president of American Woolen Company, seated in a chair, leaning on his right elbow. Wood is dressed in a three-piece suit, shown from the knees up.

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Gelatin silver print, [1984? original photo probably 1910]. Image depicts the bell of the Ayer Mill in Lawrence, Mass., with four male employees grouped above it. The Ayer Mill was owned by the American Woolen Company. Copies A and B.

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Gelatin silver print, [1984? original photo probably 1910 or shortly after]. Image depicts a group of male employees posed in the Ayer Mill in Lawrence, Mass.; one holds a coil of wire in front of him. The Ayer Mill was owned by the American Woolen Company. Copies A and B.

Scope and Contents Gelatin silver print, [195-?]. Image depicts 17 members (all men) participating in a Barnes Textile Associates seminar in an office in Boston, Mass. Barnes Textile Associates, a division of Bruce Payne Associates, Boston, was formed in 1910 and provided clients with objective analyses of problems and data on which to make decisions that would result in competitive production. All are identified on the reverse of the photograph, including representatives from American Woolen, Goodall-Sanford,...

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Image depicts a large group of men who are overseers in the Wood Mill in Lawrence, Mass. There are 42 men in all, all but one dressed in suits, many in three-piece suits. The man on the far right in the back row has a vest on but no suit jacket. Their ages range from the 30s to several men who look well into their 60s or possibly 70s. The Wood Worsted Mill was owned and operated by the American Woolen Company.

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Gelatin silver print. Image depicts what may be the Bigelow Carpet Company complex in Clinton, Mass. Several two- and three-story buildings; railroad tracks fun in front of the complex in the foreground. Written on reverse of photograph: "W.H. Bigelow, 1850," but this photo dates much later than 1850.

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Gelatin silver print, [ca. 1900]. Image depicts male employees at work in the warping room of the Bigelow Carpet Mill.