Pacific Mills Cotton Mill Records
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Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence and memoranda concerning contracts, construction and purchases, 1854-1889; bills and receipts for supplies, personnel, etc., many with the name of William C. Chapin, who served as mill agent; expense account of Joseph Walworth, 1863; and assignment of patent rights, March 27, 1876, from Samuel Barlow of Lawrence for an invention for improvement in the art of manufacturing ornamental textile fabrics. Also includes a spinning time book, 1879-1881, with the name, John Barker, in flyleaf; correspondence from English operatives stating conditions of their agreement to work as weavers, a color maker, a bleacher, etc., 1862-1866; and orders for English machinery, 1862.
Dates
- 1854-1889
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
The Pacific Mills, located in Lawrence, Mass., were textile printers, dyers and bleachers and manufactured cotton and worsted goods.
Extent
0.25 cubic feet
Abstract
Records include correspondence and memoranda, 1854-1889, concerning contracts, construction and purchases; also letters from English operatives re the conditions of their employment at Pacific Mills, 1862-1866; orders for English machinery by William C. Chapin, Agt., 1862; tax bills & receipts; construction memorandum, 1873. Also includes one spinning time book, 1879-1881; name in flyleaf, "Mr. John Barker, W Spinning, Pacific Mills, Lawrence." Also assignment of patent rights, 1876, from Samuel Barlow for an invention for improvement in manufacturing ornamental textile fabrics, and expense account of Joseph Walworth, 1863.
Custodial History
American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of Ray Hooper and the Lawrence Public Library.
Quantity:
0.2 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, notes, receipts (acknowledgments), time books, 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, September 06, 2019
- EAD encoding:
- Marcie Farwell, October 09, 2019
- Business records
- Costs
- Cotton
- Cotton manufacture
- Cotton technology -- General
- Dover (N.H.)
- England
- Immigrants
- Industrial relations
- Industries
- Labor records
- Lawrence (Mass.)
- Lowell (Mass.)
- Mill agents
- Mill treasurers
- Patents
- Payrolls
- Scotland
- Textile fibers
- Textile industry
- Textile printing
- Textile workers
- Wages
- Weaving
- Wool industry
- Woolen and worsted manufacture
- Yarn
- Title
- Pacific Mills Cotton 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
227 Ives Hall
Ithaca NY 14853