Robert C. Gray Papers

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Identifier: 6859

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Scope and Contents

Records from Gray's work at the Yantic Woolen Company, Yantic Connecticut; the American Woolen Comapny, Lawrence, Massachusetts, and the Pacific Mills, Lawrence, Massachusetts. Includes forms and test reports from the Pacific Mills, Yantic Woolen Co., and other unidentified mills; inventory and price lists, 1931-1934, from American Woolen Co.; manufacturing reports, 1934, from Arlington Mills; and a fabric record, 1936, from Wood Worsted Mills. Also includes "piece dye" notebooks, 1909-1934, from an unidentified mill; a notebook from La Porte Woolen Mills, La Porte, Ind.; various weaving drafts; fabric sheets; cloth samples (swatches); and correspondence and job offers, 1917.

Dates

1909-1950

Conditions Governing Access

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Conditions Governing Use

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

Biographical / Historical

Robert C. Gray was born the son of the late Sarah (Wrigley) and Robert C. Gray Sr. on October 9, 1926, in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He was educated in North Andover and graduated from Johnson High School in North Andover, class of 1945. Robert went on in his education later in life and attended the Lowell Textile Institute. He worked at Troy Mills for 10 years as a textile chemist before retiring in 1995. Prior, he was employed at the West Swanzey Woolen Mill and Franklin Chemical in a similar role.

Extent

1.3 cubic feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Custodial History

American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of Mary A. and Leonard Windle.

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 0022.450. When these numbers appear in the processing note, the box and folder are the numbers that immediately follow the accession number. For instance, the number 0022.450.1.3, would indicate that the material was formerly in Box 1, Folder 3.