Cotton manufacture
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 134 Collections and/or Records:
Thora M. Plitt Hardy Collection of Textile Industry Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 6916 P
Tilton Textile Corporation Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 6918 P
Abstract
Interior views of the Lone Star Cotton Mills and its predecessor, the El Paso Cotton Mills, in El Paso, Texas.
Dates:
1939-1945
Tilton Textile Corporation Records
Collection
Identifier: 6918
Abstract
The Tilton Textile Corporation Records includes correspondence and invoices, sales documents, purchase orders, contracts, reports, and court documents.
Dates:
undated
Tremont & Suffolk Mills Records
Collection
Identifier: 6921
Abstract
Collection includes a notice to stockholders of the Tremont & Suffolk Mills, Lowell, Mass. 1920. From Frederick Fanning Ayer, president; and Cost Outline, November-December 1924. Summary of costs by style, instructions for determining costs, details of calculations and base data used to determine costs indirectly. Lists machinery, production, natural costs, labor costs, overhead, pay rates, etc.
Dates:
1920, 1924
U. P. Hedrick collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 23m
Scope and content
"A Journal of Tours" (1819-1864, 160 pp.), a record of journeys taken by Rev. Benjamin Dorr primarily in his capacity of Episcopal minister, through New England, New York, and the mid-Atlantic, southern, and mid-western states; includes descriptions of communities, the countryside, cotton production, the life of Southern aristocrats, and other topics. Also, "The National Bank of Geneva" (1817-1942, 29 pp.) written by Norman Kent; and "General Joseph Swift, Nantucketer, First Graduate of...
Dates:
1819-[ca. 1942]
Ware Manufacturing Company Records
Collection
Identifier: 6935
Scope and Contents
This collection is largely incoming correspondence reflecting not only the day to day problems of this one mill, but more importantly, business conditions for textile manufacturing of the period. A large block of correspondence is from the company treasurers in Boston, especially Lewis Tappan and James Dunne, to the agents at Ware. It covers a range of subjects from the details of purchasing, production, and sales to company policy regarding manufacturing and financing. Then remainder of...
Dates:
1821 - 1837