Cyril Johnson Woolen Company Graphics
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Scope and Contents
Artwork of millworkers by K. Stephens. Also, loose newspaper clippings of advertisements and scrapbooks containing newspaper and periodical advertisements, mostly menswear, for the company's cloth and products made from it, 1927-1954; cloth samples (swatches) appear in many ads.
Dates
- 1927-1954
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 was founded in 1879 and was located in Stafford Springs, Connecticut, with selling offices on Madison Avenue in New York. It manufactured fine wool suitings and overcoatings. The company was sold in 1963 to the Stevens Companies. During the period covered in this collection, it operated 10 sets of cards, 100 looms, and 4,000 spindles. In 2014, The American Woolen Company bought the Cyril Johnson and Warren Mills in Stafford Springs, CT to produce their American made textiles.
Extent
2.67 cubic feet
Abstract
Artwork of millworkers by K. Stephens. Also, loose newspaper clippings of advertisements and scrapbooks containing newspaper and periodical advertisements, mostly menswear.; cloth samples (swatches) appear in many ads.
Custodial History
American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of the Cyril Johnson Woolen Company.
Quantity:
2.7 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Paintings (Visual works), watercolors (paintings), graphics.
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, February 15, 2018
- EAD encoding:
- Marcie Farwell, October 09, 2019
- Title
- Johnson, Cyril Woolen Company Graphics
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by R. Miles
- 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