Cyril Johnson Woolen Company Records
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Scope and Contents
Collection contains incoming correspondence, 1930-1963, on topics such as machinery, advertising, fashion, business conditions, imports and mill closings. It also contains cloth test results compared with Japanese cloth for tensile strength and shrinkage, including consulting report from Barnes Textile Associates; survey of carding machinery with recommendations from Davis & Furber Machine Co.; reports on cloth production for the armed forces, 1941-1945, and other war- related materials; papers concerning the mill closing, 1962-1963; and information files including clippings, pamphlets, notes and articles on wages and hours, company history, fashions, mill closings, and imports.
Dates
- 1919-1963
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 company, started in 1879, was located in Stafford Springs, Conn., with selling offices on Madison Ave., New York. It manufactured fine wool suitings and overcoatings. The company was sold in 1963. During the period covered s collection, it operated 10 sets of cards, 100 looms, and 4,000 spindles.
Extent
1 cubic feet
Abstract
Collection contains incoming correspondence, 1930-1963, reports on cloth production for the armed forces, 1941-1945, and other war-related materials; papers concerning the mill closing, 1962-1963; and information files including clippings, pamphlets, notes and articles on wages and hours, company history, fashions, mill closings, and imports.
Custodial History
American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of the Cyril Johnson Woolen Company.
Quantity:
1 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, records (documents), scrapbooks .
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:
- J. Riggs, September 11, 2019
- EAD encoding:
- Marcie Farwell, October 09, 2019
- Title
- Johnson, Cyril Woolen Company Records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by J. Riggs
- Date
- October 09, 2019
- 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
227 Ives Hall
Ithaca NY 14853