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Frances A. Olawski Collection of Boott Mills Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 6642 P

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

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 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

Contact:
227 Ives Hall
Ithaca NY 14853