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Wool industry

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 51 Collections and/or Records:

ATHM Textile Industry Photographs

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6524/002 P

Boston Wool Trade Association Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6545
Scope and Contents The bulk of the collection consists of the annual files of the BWTA from 1951 to 1972. These include correspondence, bills, receipts, and information pamphlets. The minutes and printed circulars appear to be complete. Records from the Associated Wool Industries and the National Wool Trade Association are meeting minutes. Those of the National Wool Finance Corporation are correspondence and financial records. Except for a few files of correspondence, the records before 1950 are formal minutes...
Dates: 1911-1972

Cyril Johnson Woolen Company Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 6589 P
Abstract

Photographs of the Cyril Johnson Woolen Company's employees making wool fabric.

Dates: 1920-1962

Cyril Johnson Woolen Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: 6589
Abstract

Collection contains incoming correspondence, 1930-1963, reports on cloth production for the armed forces, 1941-1945, and other war-related materials; papers concerning the mill closing, 1962-1963; and information files including clippings, pamphlets, notes and articles on wages and hours, company history, fashions, mill closings, and imports.

Dates: 1919-1963

E. H. Tryon, Inc. Records

 Collection
Identifier: 6618
Abstract

Collection of copies of outgoing correspondence of the secretary-treasurer of the San Francisco Wool Trade Association.; and a document outlining the history and organization of the Association and of the sheep and wool business in California. Also includes an appraisal report, 1940, done by the American Appraisal Co. for E.H. Tryon, giving cost of reproduction less depreciation of buildings and machinery, with a detailed inventory.

Dates: 1926-1940

Ebenezer Cook papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064937547]
Identifier: 985
Scope and content Correspondence pertaining to his legal practice; letters from his brother John P. Cook concerning his venture into politics as a stump candidate, and his activities in the territorial legislature, and in the Whig and Loco-foco factions in Iowa City; references to Iowa lands, tax sales, and related matters. A letter from H. Powers of Lewiston, New York mentions numerous business failures among his acquaintances in Ithaca, New York, and comments on the need for tariff revision to protect wool...
Dates: 1842-1892.