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North Star Woolen Mill Records

 Collection
Identifier: 6812

Scope and Contents

Records include stockholders' ledger, 1941-1959; annual financial statements, 1950-1954; articles of incorporation, as amended by typescript, 1945, 1949, 1951, 1953 (gift of W.G. Northrup, Portsmouth, NH, June 1963); minutes, 1953-1958, of directors' & stockholders' meetings; and correspondence.

Dates

  • 1941-1959

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

North Star Woolen Mill, Minneapolis; Lima, Ohio; Sanford, ME. Woolen mill founded in 1864. Minneapolis operation closed in 1950 and business centered in Lima. In 1956, moved from Lima to Sanford. It merged with Maine Spinning Co. in 1959.

Extent

0.25 cubic feet

Abstract

Records include stockholders' ledger, 1941-1959; annual financial statements, 1950-1954; articles of incorporation, as amended by typescript, 1945, 1949, 1951, 1953 (gift of W.G. Northrup, Portsmouth, NH, June 1963); minutes, 1953-1958, of directors' & stockholders' meetings; and correspondence.

Custodial History

American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of Ames Stevens.

Quantity:

0.2 linear ft.

Forms of Material:

Correspondence, records (documents).

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. Clark, August 30, 2019
EAD encoding:
Marcie Farwell, October 09, 2019
Title
North Star Woolen Mill Records
Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by M. Clark
Date
October 09, 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

Contact:
227 Ives Hall
Ithaca NY 14853