Wood Worsted Mill Photographs
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Scope and Contents
Nine photographs, mostly dated October 8, 1905, showing the construction of the Wood Worsted Mill, of the American Woolen Company, in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Fifteen photographs showing the 1958 demolition of the Wood Worsted Mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
Dates
- 1905-1958
Creator
- Wood Worsted Mill (creator, Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
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Conditions Governing Use
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Biographical / Historical
The Wood Worsted Mill is located at South Union St. and Merrimack Street, on the south bank of the Merrimack River, in Lawrence, Massachusetts. The mill building was constructed between 1906 and 1909 for the American Woolen Company, and was dubbed by some locals as the "eighth wonder of the world" due to its size. It is a six story brick building that is 1,300 feet (400 m) long and 125 feet (38 m) high, and encompasses some 17 miles (27 km) of aisles. Its purpose when built was to perform the complete textile manufacturing cycle of worsted woolens, from raw material to finished fabric, under a single roof.
Extent
0.44 cubic feet
Abstract
Images depict the 1905 construction of Wood Mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and the demolition of that mill in 1958.
Quantity:
0.4 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Gelatin silver print, photographs.
General
- Contact Information:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives 227 Ives Hall Tower Road Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183 kheelref@cornell.edu https://catherwood.library.cornell.edu/kheel/
- Compiled by:
- R. Miles, October 03, 2017
- EAD encoding:
- Randall Miles, November 07, 2017
- American Woolen Company
- Andover (Mass.)
- Lawrence (Mass.)
- Lost architecture
- Male employees
- Shawsheen Station (Andover, Mass.)
- Shawsheen Village (Mass.)
- Textile factories
- Textile factories -- Design and construction
- Textile workers
- Wood Worsted Mill (Lawrence, Mass.)
- Wood Worsted Mills Overseers Association
- Wrecking
- Title
- Wood Worsted Mill Photographs
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by R. Miles
- Date
- November 07, 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