Draper Corporation Glass Plate Negatives
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Scope and Contents
This collection consists of two series: Series A, 5 inch by 7 inch glass plate negatives, approximately 1,500; and Series B, 8 inch by 10 inch glass plate negatives, approximately 2,000.
Many of the photographs in Series A depict company outings, or "Field Days." These events were most likely organized by the Draper Company and may have consisted entirely of Draper Company employees. Founders of the Draper Company, brothers George and Ebenezer Draper were responsible for creating an integrated, planned community with innovative employee housing and recreational spaces, in addition to employment.
Series B consists largely of machinery built by the Draper Company. Also included are photographs of the company plant, employee housing, recreational facilities, and the surrounding area.
All negatives in this collection have been printed, please see collection 6612 P: Draper Corporation Photographs. Of the roughly 3,500 negatives 513 have been described at the individual level. Those descriptions are available in the container lists for both this collection and collection 6612 P.
Dates
- 1865-1927
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
The Draper Corporation was once the largest maker of power looms for the textile industry in the United States. It operated in Hopedale, Massachusetts for more than 130 years.
Extent
54.25 cubic feet
Abstract
Photographs of Draper Company machinery, company events, company owned buildings, and surroundings.
Quantity:
54.2 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Records (documents).
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, December 19, 2017
- EAD encoding:
- Randall Miles, December 22, 2017
Processing Information
The container list for this collection is not complete. Only those negatives that had descriptions from the American Textile History Museum are included as "Folders." The negative number has been used as the "folder number" in order to allow for descriptions for the currently undescribed negatives to be added with any re-numbering.
- Business records
- Carding
- Cloth bindings (Bookbinding)
- Cotton fabrics
- Cotton manufacture -- Rhode Island -- Fiskeville
- Cotton manufacture -- Rhode Island -- West Warwick
- Cotton technology, General
- Duxbury (Mass.) -- History -- 19th century
- Financial records
- Industries -- Rhode Island -- Fiskeville
- Industries -- Rhode Island -- Richmond
- Industries -- Rhode Island -- West Warwick
- Local elections
- Manufacturers' agents
- Massachusetts -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950
- Stores, Retail -- Rhode Island -- Richmond
- Textile industry -- Rhode Island -- Richmond
- Weaving -- Rhode Island -- Richmond
- Wool industry -- Technological innovations
- Woolen and worsted manufacture -- Rhode Island -- Richmond
- Title
- Draper Corporation Glass Plate Negatives
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by R. Miles
- Date
- December 22, 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
227 Ives Hall
Ithaca NY 14853