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Charles W. House & Company Crompton & Knowles Loom Orders

 Collection
Identifier: 6567

Scope and Contents

Collection of Crompton & Knowles Loom specifications including parts list, orders, and catalogs.

Dates

  • 1919-1936; 1963-1967

Creator

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

Charles W. House & Sons, Inc. - Felt mills and cutting plant in Unionville, Connecticut that produced filter papers, filter aids, filter cloth, filter mesh, metal fabric media, pressed felts, pre sensitized imprintables, cotton imprintables, blended imprintables, batik waxes, batik accessories, batik fabric, art stumps, muslin, craft fur, cotton blends, canvas imprintables, continuous mining equipment, longwall shears, coal cutters, rock cutters, and cutting equipment

Extent

1 cubic feet

Language of Materials

English

Custodial History

American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of Joseph Michaud.

Processing Information

The ATHM # references the accession number given to collections by the American Textile History Museum (ATHM). These numbers have been kept and tracked for researchers looking for former citations. The ATHM accession number for this collection was 0022.298

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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