Lowell Textile School Graphics
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Scope and Contents
The Lowell Textile School Graphics includes diagrams and blue prints of textile machinery from the Lowell Textile School.
Dates
- undated
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 Lowell Textile School opened on October 4, 1897 and was modeled on the success of the Polytechnical School at Philadelphia. The school originally opened in three rented rooms on Middle Street in downtown Lowell. The college offered three year diplomas in cotton or wool manufacture, design, or textile chemistry and dyeing.
In 1929, with an expanded textile cirrculum and additional faculty, the name was changed to the Lowell Textile Institute.
In 1953, with the decline of the textile industry in Massachusetts, new areas of plastics, leather, paper, and electronics technology were added and the name was changed to the Lowell Technical Institute. The textile program was closed entirely in 1971.
In 1975, it was merged with Lowell State College to form the University of Lowell. It changed its name in 1991 to the University of Massachusetts Lowell and today is known as the North Campus of UMass Lowell.
Extent
0.33 cubic feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Collection of diagrams and blue prints showing the textile machinery from the Lowell Textile School.
Custodial History
American Textile History Museum Collection.
Source
- American Textile History Museum (Organization)
- 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