Cotton manufacture
Found in 135 Collections and/or Records:
Pacific Mills Cotton Mill Records
Palmer Manufacturing Company Records
Pemberton Mill Relief Committee Records
Collection includes meeting minutes, survey of relief needs, city canvasser's report, detailed ward inspectors' and physicians' reports and correspondence. Financial records include account books listing amount spent per employee, cash received, check registers, vouchers and index to cash vouchers. Also copy of Robert H. Tewksbury's "Historical Sketch: The Fall of the Pemberton Mill," published in 1900.
Phoenix Manufacturing Company Records
Collection of ledgers of financial records from Phoenix Manufacturing Co. and Union Manufacturing Co.
Pocasset Worsted Company Records
This collection includes the papers that Frederick C. Fletcher removed when he sold the mill. They included extensive correspondence and purchasing records for both companies.
Also included is correspondence between William Halliwell agent for the Lawton Spinning Company and Caitlin & Company.
Quinebaug Company Records
Includes receipts and invoices for items purchased for the factory or for re-sale at the factory store. Receipts are from wholesale grocers, sellers of fancy goods, dry goods, fruit, etc. Also contains invoices for equipment for the mill, including bolts, nuts, spools and bobbins, loom harnesses, etc.
Ralph C. Perkins Papers
Collection of journals and notebooks Perkins kept while a student at the Lowell Textile School and include his office files as an executive officer and director at several New England textile corporations as well as company records kept by other departments and managers.
Raymond B. Clogston Papers
Papers include diary, 1924, containing notes on dyes, dye house rates and the cost of coal and coke; diary, 1937, listing rates of pay and changes in rates for various people indicated by initials only; and notebook, from Prof. Edward Golec (Lowell Technical Institute), containing diary, 1950, includes sheets of notes, many on letterhead of the Merrimack Manufacturing Co.,(Lowell, Mass.) laid in.
Reginald Andrews Papers
Collection of picking notebooks, notes on wool shrinkages, machinery, and tests, and notes on trips Andrews took to other mills. Also includes Andrews's business card with notes, a price list and correspondence with cloth samples.