Herbert J. Ball Papers

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Identifier: 6757/003

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Scope and Contents

Collection contains teaching materials related to textile testing as well as subject files, files on fiber types, textile machinery, instruments and textile testing.

Dates

1862-1969

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 Access

Student material originally in Box 1, Folder 11 has been moved to the accession folder until the restricted is lifted.

Conditions Governing Use

This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.

Biographical / Historical

Professor Herbert J. Ball of the Lowell Textile School graduated from MIT in 1906. He began his teaching career soon after as instructor of mechanical drawing at Lowell. By 1945 he had risen to Professor of Textile Engineering and department head. On his retirement he was named professor emeritus. He was also a Fellow of the British Textile Institute.

In 1929 and 1930 he did advanced study at MIT in textile analysis. A large portion of this collection deals with machinery and instruments for textile testing.

Upon Professor Ball's retirement his successor Edward L. Golec inherited his files to which he added a few items.

Extent

2.3 cubic feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Arrangement

This collection has kept the original order as created by Ball with the exception of the Subject files which were put in proper alphabetical order but the original order can be found using the processing notes.

Custodial History

American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of John A. Goodwin.

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 0022.387. When the materials had been processed by the ATHM, we attempted to keep the records in the original order but sometimes the box and folders numbers will change. The old numbers appear in the processing note, the box and folder are the numbers that immediately follow the accession number. For instance, the number 0022.387.1.3, would indicate that the material was formerly in Box 1, Folder 3.