American Textile History Museum
Found in 680 Collections and/or Records:
Idaho Wool Growers Association Records
History of the Association, its officers, and locations of its annual meetings, 1894-1904.
Interlaken Mills Records
Collection includes correspondence, ca. 1884-ca. 1945; agreements with sales agents; financial records; cotton purchase records and regulations; advertising and sample books; lists of new help. Contains constitution and bylaws of Bookcloth Salesmen's Association, 1918.
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.
J. C. Hilliard Mill Insurance Files
Collection of research notes and mill diagrams created and used on Hilliard's visits to textile mills in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont.
J. Craig Huff, Jr. Records
Collection contains reports of mill visits, 1948-1965, made by Huff as a sales representative for Draper Company, textile machinery manufacturers, Hopedale, Massachusetts. Arranged chronologically, with a list of mills included at beginning of each report. Also includes Draper Company related records from the 1940s to the 1960s, correspondence, a speech given by Huff to the Textile Society of Canada, 1952, "Fixing high speed looms to standard," and notes on machinery and other matters.
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- Subject
- Textile industry 446
- Textile workers 168
- Woolen and worsted manufacture 147
- Textile machinery 142
- Cotton manufacture 128
- 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 + ∧ less