Frances A. Olawski Collection of Boott Mills Photographs
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Scope and Contents
Personal snapshots, mostly featuring Ruth (Monroe) Budd,; Olive (Dunn) Cairney, and Veronica (Murphy) Tasca, three deaf or hearing-impaired women working at Boott Mills.
Dates
- 1942-1944
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 Boott Mills in Lowell, Massachusetts were a part of an extensive group of cotton mills, built in 1835 alongside a power canal system in this important cotton town. Their founder was Kirk Boott, one of the early mill leaders in Lowell.
Extent
1 folders
Abstract
Includes photographs, personal snapshots, of both male and female workers at the Boott Mills (Lowell, Mass.).
Quantity:
1 file folder
Forms of Material:
Gelatin silver prints, photographs.
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, October 12, 2017
- EAD encoding:
- Randall Miles, November 15, 2017
- Title
- Frances A. Olawski Collection of Boott Mills Photographs
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by R. Miles
- Date
- November 15, 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