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Looms.

 Subject
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Found in 46 Collections and/or Records:

Raymond B. Clogston Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 6849
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1924-1950

Reynolds family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1924
Scope and content Correspondence, patents, drawings, accounts, affidavits, bonds, and other legal documents mainly concerning the invention, manufacture, and sale of an artillery device consisting of a revolving battery for projecting balls, and the Empire loom and related textile improvements, but also referring to hay forks, rotary pumps, weather vanes, and other inventions of Rensselaer Reynolds and his son Robert. Also, related papers of Rensselaer Reynolds's brothers and business associates, James and...
Dates: 1835-1908.

Thomas R. Anderton Collection of Textile Related Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 6914 P
Abstract

Image depicts Washington Anderton (b. 1854), who was an expert colorist and superintendent of the print works at Cocheco Manufacturing Co. in Dover from about 1879 to 1895. Anderton is a young man here, seen from the shoulders up, wearing an overcoat and tie, with mutton chop whiskers and a mustache. Foss, Dover, N.H. [photographer?]. Image shows three women at a finishing machine (note that the women are barefoot). On reverse is information about Duncan Stewart & Co.

Dates: undated

Uxbridge Cotton Mills Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6927