R. Wolfenden & Sons Photographs
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Scope and Contents
Images depict, step-by-step, the dyeing process in a 24 photograph series. The series was made circa 1950. Also includes one other photograph of an employee at a drying machine, which is not numbered, but appears to be part of the series.
Dates
- 1950
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
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Conditions Governing Use
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Biographical / Historical
In 1868 Robert Wolfenden founded the Attleborough Dye Works. Around 1878 he brought his two sons, John W. and Oscar, into the business as partners. It was not until Robert Wolfenden's death that the name of the company was changed to R. Wolfenden & Sons.
By 1930 the company had one of the largest, if not largest, plants in the world that does nothing but dye textiles. At that time they employed about 175 people and could dye 25 tons of fabric per day.
R. Wolfenden and Sons became a division of J.P. Stevens & Co. in 1949.
Extent
0.33 cubic feet
Abstract
A series of 24 photographs depicting the dyeing process from beginning to end.
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 10, 2017
- EAD encoding:
- Randall Miles, December 06, 2017
- Title
- R. Wolfenden & Sons Photographs
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by R. Miles
- Date
- December 06, 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