Scope and Contents
Mohawk River Mills, Cohoes, NY. Business records, 1854-1885 (ca. 250 items). Includes certificate of incorporation, contract to construct a factory, minutes of meetings of stockholders & trustees, and correspondence of Truman G. Younglove, company president. Also accounts with Cohoes Iron Foundry and Machine Shop; water rent accounts for Mohawk and for Flax Cotton Mills building; bills and receipts, production and payroll records; inventories of stock on hand, including those for Watervliet Mills, Halcyon Mills and Atlantic Mills; and sales records and financial statements. Also a few records of Flax Cotton Mills and Harmony Mills.
Dates
- 1850-1885
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Conditions Governing Access
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Conditions Governing Use
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Biographical / Historical
The company, located in Cohoes, N.Y., was founded in 1854 to manufacture "woven goods of various kinds." It carried inventories of both cotton and wool machinery. The Cohoes Co., organized in 1826, was formed to build a dam and power canal system on the Mohawk River at Cohoes. Most textile mills in the area purchased water-power and rented land from the Cohoes Co.
Extent
0.75 cubic feet
Custodial History
American Textile History Museum Collection.
Quantity:
0.8 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
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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. Farwell, March 21, 2019
- EAD encoding:
- Kheel Staff, March 21, 2019
- Title
- Mohawk River Mills Records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by M. Farwell
- Date
- March 21, 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