Scope and Contents
The C. G. Sargent's Sons Records includes records of the company and personal papers of C.G. Sargent. Contains information on patents, 1840-1918; patent correspondence, 1868-1923; notebooks of Allen G. Sargent, 1875, 1879; an information file, 1860-1890, with brochures, catalogs, etc., from suppliers, competitors, and customers; incoming general correspondence, 1854-1914; and outgoing general correspondence, 1857-1900.
Financial records include annual inventories, 1857-1858, 1875-1880; trial balances, 1869-1912; journals, 1861-1921; ledgers, 1856-1921; daybooks, 1854-1878, 1904-1908; and cashbooks, 1856-1912. Also includes financial information of C.G. Sargent, 1850-1880. Contains bills and receipts, 1851-1884; order books, 1857-1908; payrolls, 1864-1884, 1895-1901; inventories, 1908-1917.
Collection contains records of Chauncy Mills, located in Graniteville and making worsted hosiery. Includes general business correspondence, 1877-1878; annual inventories, 1875-1878; a ledger, journal, daybook, and cashbook, 1878-1883.
Collection also contains records, 1900-1920, of James M. Sargent Co. of Graniteville, which manufactured parts for automobiles; records, 1866-1879, of the Stony Brook Water Power Co., of Westford, MA, incorporated in 1866 by C.G. Sargent and others to maintain reservoirs in Westford; and a journal, 1864-1870, of Barlow Combing Co., located in Graniteville.
Dates
- undated
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Biographical / Historical
C.G. Sargent's Sons was a textile machinery manufacturing corporation that operated from 1852 to 1990 in Granite, a neighborhood of Westford, MA. Just ten miles from Lowell, Westford was the perfect location for Sargent (a former employee of the Lowell Mills machine shop) to establish his own business.
Extent
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Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Collection of records of the C,G. Chauncy & Sons, Chauncy Mills, James M. Sargent Co., Stony Brook Water Power Co., and personal papers of C.G. Sargent
Custodial History
American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of Dana Fletcher and the C. G. Sargent's Sons Corporation.
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository
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