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Cotton manufacture

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 135 Collections and/or Records:

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

Williams family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1148
Abstract

Papers of Josiah Butler Williams, banker, businessman, and New York State Senator, contain business, political, and personal papers, accounts, legal documents and correspondence, 1809-1883. Subjects include banking, canals, the lumber business, railroads, and real estate; also, Cornell University, Ovid Academy, the New York and Erie Telegraph Company, the Ithaca and Owego Railroad Company, the Ithaca Cotton Mills, the Merchants and Farmers' Bank, Ithaca, and the Sodus Canal.

Dates: 1778-1952.

Winnipesaugee Lake Cotton and Woolen Manufacturing Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: 6950
Abstract

Payroll for August, September, and October, 1870, listing workers' names and indicating that at least some worked making repairs and alterations to a dam at Wolfboro (probably Wolfeboro, New Hampshire) and also cleaning out the river (Winnipesaukee River, New Hampshire.)

Dates: 1870