Dates
- 1860-1938
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
The Lawrence Machine shop was built by the Essex Land and Water Company which owned it until April 1, 1852, when the original company was reorganized as the Lawrence Machine Shop Company. Due to legal formalities, the new company did not take possession of the property until June, 1853. In July, 1859, the machine shop and foundry were sold to a Mr. Dana, identified as the Mayor of Charlston, MA. Within a year, a new firm, the Everett Mills, acquired the building and converted it into a cotton textile mill which began operation on January 1, 1861, It remained under this ownership until 1929 when, through liquidation proceedings, the building was sold to a New York based corporation, Everett Mill Properties.
Extent
0.83 cubic feet
Language of Materials
English
Custodial History
American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of Everett Mills Properties.
- Company stores
- Electric generators.
- Electric switchgear
- Electric transformers
- Elevators
- General Electric Company.
- General Electric Company.
- Hydroelectric generators
- Lawrence (Mass.)
- Locomotives
- Looms.
- Railroad yards
- Spinning machinery
- Textile factories
- Textile industry.
- Textile machinery
- Textile workers.
- Turbines.
- Water-wheels.
- Winding machines
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository
227 Ives Hall
Ithaca NY 14853