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American Textile History Museum

 Organization

Found in 680 Collections and/or Records:

Essex Company Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6633
Scope and Contents The Essex Company Records document the engineering, city planning, and corporate management that created the industrial city of Lawrence. Series of correspondence and memoranda indicate the degree to which these earlier models of developments at Lowell, Manchester, and other New England textile corporation towns, were followed for planning, construction, and operation of the water power system, factories, and housing. Records of the Lawrence Machine Shop illustrate the pattern of machine...
Dates: undated

Everett Mills Photographs

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6634 P

Everett Mills Records

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 6634
Abstract

Collection of the memorandum book of Charles J. Ford and notes on machinery and setup in the department.

Dates: 1897-1927

F. Chase & Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: 6635
Scope and Contents

Sales and purchasing correspondence. Records include only suppliers and customers whose names begin with the letters E, F, G, R, and S. The general business records include letters seeking employment at Chase, matters relating to the Chase firm's space in the Eaton Building (owned by the estate of Sarah B. Eaton), and one letter regarding insurance.

Dates: 1899-1905

Farr Alpaca Company Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6637
Abstract

Collection of business records of the Farr Alpaca Company including financial, payroll, correspondence, sales, and production records.

Dates: undated

Faulkner Mills Records

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 6638
Abstract

Collection includes the agreement to form a corporation, finacial records; a stock certificate, for company shares owned by John A. Faulkner; and a document giving Luther Faulkner's attorney power to vote for him at a stockholders' meeting,. Also includes a sample of wool and a cloth sample (swatch). Contains legal papers relating to water power.

Dates: 1897-1899

Faxon, Elms and Company Records

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 6639
Abstract

Letterbook of outgoing correspondence concerning selling goods of several smaller New England mills through offices and warehouses in Providence, New York, etc., to U.S. and British "clothing and trimming houses." Volume is indexed by name of correspondent.

Dates: 1870-1871

Additional filters:

Subject
Textile industry 446
Textile workers 168
Woolen and worsted manufacture 147
Textile machinery 142
Cotton manufacture 128
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Textile factories 93
Dyes and dyeing 73
Weaving. 62
Industrial relations 54
Textile machinery industry 54
Textile manufacturers 52
Manufacturers' agents 47
Looms. 46
Wool industry 43
Lawrence (Mass.) 41
Wages. 39
Textile fabrics. 35
Women textile workers 33
Spinning machinery 32
Wool 28
Yarn 28
Carding-machines 26
Payrolls. 25
Industries 24
Carding 23
Spinning 23
Lowell (Mass.) 22
Silk industry 20
Swatches (Dry-goods) 20
Textile finishing 20
Woolen and worsted machinery 19
Cotton machinery 18
Knitting machines 18
Labor 18
Textile schools 17
Advertising. 16
Cotton 16
Male employees 16
Child labor. 15
Flannel 15
Textile printing 15
Water-power. 15
Textile research 14
Weavers 14
Knit goods industry 13
Patents. 13
Cotton trade 12
Merrimack River (N.H. and Mass.) 12
Women employees 12
Business records 11
Clothing and dress. 11
Hosiery industry 11
Labor unions 11
Linen industry 11
Strikes and lockouts 11
Textile Workers' Strike, Lawrence, Mass., 1912 11
Textile chemistry 11
Winding machines 11
Business enterprises 10
Cotton fabrics 10
Flax industry 10
Sheep. 10
Dams. 9
Dye industry 9
Inventors. 9
Machine shops 9
North Andover (Mass.) 9
Taunton (Mass.) 9
Textile design 9
Trade associations 9
Wool scouring 9
Woolen and worsted finishing 9
Woolen and worsted spinning 9
Worcester (Mass.) 9
World War, 1914-1918 9
Andover (Mass.) 8
Coverlets 8
Fashion. 8
Rug and carpet industry 8
Women's clothing 8
Wool-carding 8
Worsted 8
Bleaching industry 7
Boston (Mass.) 7
Combing machines 7
Cotton textiles 7
Dry-goods. 7
Employee rules 7
Machinists 7
Manchester (N.H.) 7
Mill agents 7
Pickers (Weaving) 7
Real property. 7
Textile fibers 7
World War, 1939-1945 7
Belts and belting 6
Blankets 6
Cloth labels 6
Cotton spinning 6
Drawing. 6
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