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Woolen and worsted manufacture

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 158 Collections and/or Records:

Glendale Woolen Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: 6668
Scope and Contents The Glendale Woolen Company Records includes company stock certificates issued to John Z. Goodrich, 1860 and 1861, as well as articles of agreement, 1867, of Charles Goodrich, Joseph R. French and John T. Fenn, all of Stockbridge, to become partners for five years for the purpose of manufacturing cotton and woolen goods at the mill of the Glendale Woolen Co. The company was to be called Goodrich, Fenn & Co. Also includes an indenture, 1871, between Glendale and Charles Goodrich, leasing...
Dates: 1860-1885

Gonic Manufacturing Records

 Collection
Identifier: 6669
Abstract

Includes records of incorporation & minutes of stockholders' meetings, 1859-1884; minutes of Directors' meetings, 1877-1903; ledger, indexed, with cash and credit information, 1859-1867; records of dividends paid, 1882-1912; correspondence about dividends, 1905-1906, & notes on company history, n.d., 1954.

Dates: 1859-1954

Griffin & Taylor Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: 6674
Abstract

Includes payroll records, daily spinning room production records, invoice books, bales assigned to Faulkner, Kimball & Co., supply ledger for dye house, property & departmental inventories including inventory lists in detail tools and machinery owned by the mill.

Dates: 1865-1871

Groveland Mills Records

 Collection
Identifier: 6676
Abstract

Letter books of outgoing correspondence, 1867-1869, 1875-1876, including invoices; also incoming postcards to Groveland Mills, 1883-1884; and a group of cancelled checks, 1872-1873.

Dates: 1869-1884

H. A. Little Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: 6678
Abstract

Includes two account books, one with Faulkner, Kimball & Co.; miscellaneous bills, receipts, notes, tax statements, etc. Also correspondence, boarders' accounts with names of workers. Also E.D. Haskell, Calais, VT, mill & store inventory and a wool bill, Alvin Braley to John White, Northfield, VT. Includes documents relating to estate of Walter Little, father of Hazen A. Little.

Dates: 1856-1877

Harold Rogers Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 6599
Abstract

Notes on wool manufacturing processes including woolen and worsted spinning, sorting, dusting, carding, combing, etc.

Dates: 1922

Helena E. Wright Collection of Textile Industry Records

 Collection
Identifier: 6690
Scope and Contents

Helena E. Wright Collection of Textile Industry Records is a collection of letters, invoices, and blank letterheads and forms related to early textile companies. The collection was created for the study of the graphics contained in the design of the letterheads, billheads, and invoices.

Dates: 1854-1889

Hilaire J. D'Auteuil Weaving Notebook

 Collection
Identifier: 6693
Abstract

Contains notes on warp calculations, weights and counts; worsted yarns; silk and rayon twist weaves; coloration and dyes. Also contains miscellaneous notes mainly pertaining to weaving.

Dates: 1942

Hollingworth Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 6694
Abstract

Correspondence mostly received by William Rawcliff, largley written by the Joseph Hollingworth, along with his father George and brother Jabez, John, and James.

Dates: 1812-1837