Scope and Contents
Includes photogrpahs of textile machinery manufactured by the New England Butt Company of Providence, R.I. Depicted are a 36-strand harness braider, two other braiders, and two circular knitters. Also includes a view of the New England Butt Company building in Providence, R.I. Building is one story, behind chain-link fence topped with barbed wire. There is also a photograph of original etching by Boris Artzybasheff (1899-1965), copyright Wickwire Spencer Steel Co. [1940-1949]. Cartoon shows braiding machinery depicted with human-like faces and muscled arms with hands coming out to guide braided material onto flywheels.
Dates
- 1940-1952
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
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Biographical / Historical
The New England Butt Company is a historic factory building at 304 Pearl Street in Providence, Rhode Island. It is a 3-1/2 story brick structure with a monitor roof, built in 1865 to designs by Spencer P. Read. The New England Butt Company originally manufactured cast iron butt hinges, but later changed to producing machinery for braiding and stranding wire. Many of the machines are still used today by wire companies throughout the world.
The New England Butt Company factory building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1] The drawings for all of the stranding machinery were sold to Watson Machinery International in Paterson, New Jersey in the mid 1980s. The drawings for all of the braiding machines were sold to Wardwell Braiding Company in Central Falls, Rhode Island, at the same time.
Watson went out of business in 2001 and the drawings were purchased by Kinrei of America, LLC. Today, information about the older stranding machines is available through Kinrei of America, LLC, in Wayne, New Jersey.
Extent
1.11 cubic feet
Abstract
Images depict braiding machines and circular knitters.
Quantity:
0.1 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 12, 2017
- EAD encoding:
- Randall Miles, December 04, 2017
- Title
- New England Butt Photographs
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by R. Miles
- Date
- December 04, 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