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Woolen and worsted manufacture

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 158 Collections and/or Records:

R. D. Nesmith Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: 6844
Abstract

Records include account book of goods delivered, raw materials & dyestuffs; also goods sent elsewhere for finishing, 1845-1849; payroll & manufacturing accounts, few dye receipts, 1845- 1851; a work and time book, 1845-48; weave room time book, 1851-1852; weaving records, per employee, 1849-1850.

Dates: 1845-1851

Ralph Edson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 6847
Abstract

Includes mill reports, supervisor's notes, policy manuals, job evaluation training manual, job descriptions with qualifications for various jobs including language/nationality best suited to each job, and Blue Cross materials; also weaving specifications. Mills represented include American Woolen Company, Andover (Shawsheen), Mass.; Arlington Mills, Lawrence, Mass.; and Holden Leonard Co., Bennington, VT.

Dates: 1930-1947

Raymond G. Beaven Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 6851
Abstract

Collection of Beaven's notes on operations at the Wood Mill, including some from the Planning Department. Also includes a booklet entitled: Retirement Income Plan for Salaried Employees, issues of Fibre and Fabric.

Dates: 1942-1950

Reginald Andrews Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 6852
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1930

Richmond Worsted Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: 6896/011
Abstract

Collection of newspaper excerpts tracing the history of the Richmond Worsted Co. and its predecessors in Richmond, ME.

Dates: undated

Robert C. Gray Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 6859
Scope and Contents Records from Gray's work at the Yantic Woolen Company, Yantic Connecticut; the American Woolen Comapny, Lawrence, Massachusetts, and the Pacific Mills, Lawrence, Massachusetts. Includes forms and test reports from the Pacific Mills, Yantic Woolen Co., and other unidentified mills; inventory and price lists, 1931-1934, from American Woolen Co.; manufacturing reports, 1934, from Arlington Mills; and a fabric record, 1936, from Wood Worsted Mills. Also includes "piece dye" notebooks, 1909-1934,...
Dates: 1909-1950

Robert Douglas & Company, Royal Worsted Mill Reports

 Collection
Identifier: 6860
Scope and Contents

Yearly audit reports for accounts of the Royal Worsted Mill

Dates: 1931-1941

Robert M. Vogel Collection of Textile Industry Records

 Collection
Identifier: 6864
Abstract Collection of materials related to the textile industry including Amoskeag Co. blank forms. Comparisons of wages between foreign and American printeries. Correspondence to H. Saltonstall, Treasurer, Pacific Mills, Boston. Letter from Jess Chandler of Methuen, Mass. to his niece. Document from an unidentified compiler in England describing loss of money from uncertainty of finding a purchaser for winding engines because of threats of throwsters to destroy engines. Letter from Bent, treasurer...
Dates: 1720-1937