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Amelia Olenio Collection of American Woolen Company Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 6502 P

Scope and Contents

Photographs of American Woolen Mills overseers' outings, which include men and women playing games.

The company executive photographs include president Francis W. White, vice-president William Muir, purchasing agent Percy Wardwell, general sales manager Charles H. Silver, manager of costs Rory Veitch, treasurer F. S. Connett, vice-president and comptroller George E. McClellan, and public relations executive Jack Barry.

Photographers include Alton Anderson and George Valentine Enell.

Dates

  • 1910-1955

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Conditions Governing Access

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Conditions Governing Use

This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.

Biographical / Historical

The American Woolen Company was founded in 1899 under the direction of William M. Wood and Frederick Ayer. In the 1920s the company owned and operated 60 woolen mills, at which time it controlled 20% of the U.S. woolen production. Despite several changes in ownership, the American Woolen Company is still in operation and is a designer, manufacturer and distributor of men's and women's worsted and woolen fabrics. Based in Stafford Springs, Connecticut, the company operates from the 160-year-old Warren Mills, which it acquired from Loro Piana SpA in June 2014.

Extent

0.33 cubic feet

Abstract

Photographs of overseers' outings, company executives, the March 1936 Lawrence, Massachusetts, flood, and other subjects.

Related Materials

Related Collections: 6502 PUBS: Amelia Olenio Collection of American Woolen Company Publications 5129: Maxwell Copelof Arbitration Briefs, Exhibits, Transcripts and Decisions 5131: Sidney A. Wolff Arbitration Files 5583/4: Archives Organization File (AOF) Part 4. Corporate and Organizational Publications 6046: Archives Union File (AUF) 6510: American Woolen Company Collection 6510 PUBS: American Woolen Company Publications 6510/001: American Woolen Company Records

Quantity:

0.3 linear ft.

Forms of Material:

Gelatin silver print, photographs.

General

Contact Information:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives Martin P. Catherwood Library 227 Ives Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183> kheel_center@cornell.edu http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/kheel-center
Compiled by:
R. Miles, October 03, 2017
EAD encoding:
Randall Miles, November 08, 2017
Title
Amelia Olenio Collection of American Woolen Company Photographs
Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by R. Miles
Date
November 08, 2017
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Revision Statements

  • 02/23/2024: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)

Repository Details

Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository

Contact:
227 Ives Hall
Ithaca NY 14853