Scope and Contents
Contains one production volume of an inventory of stock and finished goods, two daybooks, and a one volume copybook addition to Superintendent George Motley's correspondence, minutes of meetings of stockholders, and petitions submitted. Also contains deeds; patent assignments; insurance agreements; mill construction records; property, machinery, and power plant files; information files concerning New England mills; papers concerning the Proprietors of Locks & Canals; incoming correspondence to treasurer; incoming correspondence to Nathan Appleton. Also lists of goods purchased, contracts, employee information files, wages and payrolls, overseers' records, statements of cloth manufactured, spinning records, and weaving records.
Dates
- 1815-1925
Creator
- Appleton Company (creator, Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Conditions Governing Access
Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference archivist for access to these materials.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.
Biographical / Historical
Incorporated in 1828 by members of the Proprietors of Locks and Canals, among whom William and Nathan Appleton, John Lowell, Jr., William Sturgis and Thomas Perkins served as officers, the Appleton Company occupied two mills on the Hamilton Canal in Lowell. In 1832, the mill employed 480 operatives and had 400 looms and 11,776 spindles producing 520,000 yards of sheeting, shirtings and drillings annually. By 1874 there were 764 looms and 27,568 spindles. Operations ceased at the Lowell site in the early 1920s. J. P. Stevens Company purchased the surviving South Carolina division in 1925.
Extent
3 cubic feet
Abstract
Records, correspondence and daybooks of the Appleton mills in Lowell, MA.
Arrangement
Series I. ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION
Sub-Series A. BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND STOCKHOLDERS RECORDS Sub-Series B. LEGAL AND PROPERTY
Series II. EXECUTIVE
Series III. FINANCIAL
Series IV. PURCHASING
Series V. SALES
Series VI. LABOR
Series VII. PRODUCTION
Quantity:
2.7 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Account books, correspondence, daybooks, records (documents), minutes.
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:
- Kheel Staff, October 11, 2017
- EAD encoding:
- Randall Miles, October 13, 2017
Processing Information
Collection consists of two ATHM acquisitions, MSS 206 and MSS 314, which had been merged by the Museum. The Museum's intellectual order has been maintained, however the materials have been re-boxed for more efficient access and storage. Three folders which contained photocopies of documents contained in other folders in the collections were de-accessioned and the photocopies added to the folders with the originals.
- Boardinghouses
- Business records
- Cotton manufacture
- Cotton technology, General
- Drills (cloth)
- Hours of labor
- Industries
- J.P. Stevens & Co.
- Labor records
- Manufacturers' agents
- Mill agents
- Mill superintendents
- Minutes.
- Overseers
- Payrolls
- Personnel records
- Petitions
- Proprietors of the Locks and Canals on Merrimack River
- Sheeting (Textile fabric)
- Shirting (Textile fabric)
- Strikes and lockouts
- Suffolk Manufacturing Company (Lowell, Mass.)
- Ten hour movement
- Textile industry
- Textile workers
- Wages
- Title
- Appleton Company Records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Kheel Staff
- Date
- October 13, 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