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Sawmill for production of bobbins. Purchased by the Draper Corporation in 1925. Draper at this time part of Rockwell.

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Image depicts a dobby power loom manufactured by the Draper Company of Hopedale, Mass., with a Northrop automatic bobbin-changer attached. Photograph possibly used as an advertisement.

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Campton, New Hampshire.

Scope and Contents American Woolen Company's 25th Anniversary Committee, 1924. [Joseph] Silverthorne, Lawrence, Mass., photographer. Gelatin silver print, August 9, 1924. Image depicts the 25th Anniversary Committee members, representing all 35,000 American Woolen Company employees, on the occasion of presenting a tablet to William Madison Wood (president of American Woolen Co.) on August 9, 1924. There are 16 male and six female employees in the picture (all named on the mount), plus Bryant Baker, the...

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Image shows aerial view of Shawsheen Village, a "model industrial village" begun in 1919 by the American Woolen Company. (American Woolen rebuilt the existing community of Frye Village as well as a brand-new million dollar mill). The mill buildings are visible in the left background; houses are visible along the streets to the right, behind the mill, and in the foreground.

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The Falk Studio, 14 and 16 W. 33rd St., N.Y., photographer. Gelatin silver print, [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. Wood has signed the mount "Yours truly Wm M Wood President."

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Albumen print, [ca. 1880]. Image depicts the large millyard of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company in Manchester, N.H., crowded with its labor force, including men, women, and children. Note the woman posing on the ladder on the right. Those ladders and the platforms they are attached to on every building seen on the right may have served as a form of fire escape.

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Albumen print, 1870. Image shows mill in background with scattered houses around it; horse and two-wheeled carriage on road.

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7 blueprints drawn by Russell V. Keune. Providence Road, Wilkinsonville, Worcester County, Massachusetts. Gift of the Smithsonian Institution.