Bleaching industry
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Birch Brothers Correspondence
Collection of incoming correspondence from various textile manufacturers concerning orders for company's products.
Irwin Laverne Powers Papers
Chemistry notebooks with cloth samples, from Powers' work at Silver Spring Bleaching & Dyeing Company, Providence, Rhode Island. Also notes concerning linen bleaching & dyes and dyestuffs. Also essay on history of dyes and dyestuffs written by Powers' daughter, Dorothy Powers, while she was a student at Thayer Academy, Braintree, Massachusetts. She mentions her father's role in synthetic dye manufacture.
Leonard A. Yerkes Letter
Letter to R.B. Clogston, Superintendent of Farwell Bleachery, Lawrence, Massachusetts. Yerkes, writing on letterhead of Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co., manufacturers, bleachers, dyers & finishers, writes to Clogston concerning a job.
Nathaniel F. Ayer Letter
Letter from Ayers to Clogston to offer him the job of superintendent at the bleachery.
R. Wolfendon & Sons Records
Collection includes correspondence and memoranda concerning woolen and worsted yarn dyeing and bleaching; war production; a strike in 1942; plant operation and machinery costs. Also patent licenses for rubber dye and zephyr process and a copper printing plate showing an undated view of the factory.