Farnsworth Manufacturing Records
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Scope and Contents
Includes weekly time books, 1931-1932, 1935-1938, and 1941-1961, from the machinery repair shop; and a diary of a shop foreman, 1954, which lists repair work done each day by each employee. Also includes a report entitled, Lubrication survey for Farnsworth Mill, Deering-Milliken Service, Lisbon Center, Maine, done by Gulf Oil Corporation, Portland, Me., ca. 1950. Report outlines the type of lubricants recommended for various machines
Dates
- 1931-1961
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
Farnsworth Manufacturing Co., Lisbon, Maine. Woolen mill & division of Cotwool Manufacturing Co. Also known as Farnsworth Mill.
Extent
1 cubic feet
Abstract
14 time books (weekly) from machinery repair shop (1931-1961); diary, 1954, of shop foreman listing repair work done each day by each employee; typescript lubrication survey for Farnsworth Mill done by Gulf Oil Corp., Portland, Me., ca 1950.
Custodial History
American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of Deering, Milliken and Company and Samuel T. Freeman & Company.
Quantity:
0.5 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Records (documents), reports, time books .
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:
- M. Clark, September 06, 2019
- EAD encoding:
- Marcie Farwell, October 09, 2019
- Title
- Farnsworth Manufacturing Records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by M. Clark
- 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