Joan Rollenhagen Collection of Textile Industry Photographs
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Scope and Contents
Includes photographs of mill workers and executives at Slater Mills in Webster, Massachusetts and mill interiors of the Blackstone Mill of the Lonsdale Co., Blackstone, Massachusetts, and unknown mill interiors. Also includes a photograph of Joseph Dancewicz and a portrait of a woman with three children.
Dates
- 1925-1950
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
Joseph A. Dancewicz was born in Monastzysko, Poland on March 10, 1906 and came to the U. S. in 1921. As a young man he worked as a loom fixer in Slater Mills, superintendent of the Blackstone Mill, Lonsdale Company, Blackstone, Massachusetts; manager of the Soule Mill, New Bedford; president of Sagamore Manufacturing Co., Fall River. By 1959 he was the President and Treasurer of the Hunt-Spiller Manufacturing Company in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Joseph Dancewicz married Christine Brown in 1946.
Mr. Dancewicz died n May 23, 1978 in New Bedford.
Extent
0.33 cubic feet
Abstract
Mostly photographs of mill workers and mill interiors.
Quantity:
0.3 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Gelatin silver print, 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 17, 2017
- EAD encoding:
- Randall Miles, November 30, 2017
- Blackstone (Mass.)
- Clerks
- Combing machines
- Cotton manufacture
- Diesel motor
- Executives
- Glass fiber industry
- Immigrants
- Industrial relations
- Industries
- Looms
- Male employees
- Metal castings
- Polish Americans
- Spinning machinery
- Superintendents
- Textile factories
- Textile industry
- Textile industry -- Management
- Textile machinery
- Textile workers
- Weaving
- Webster (Mass.)
- Women employees
- Woonsocket (R.I.)
- Worcester (Mass.)
- Yarn -- Examinations, questions, etc
- Title
- Joan Rollenhagen Collection of Textile Industry Photographs
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by R. Miles
- Date
- November 30, 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