Scope and Contents
Includes images of the Maine Woolen Manufacturer's Club, Bates Manufacturing Company, and Knowles Loom Works and Harrison Yarn and Dying Company.
Dates
- 1885-1930
Creator
- Amos Abbott Company (creator, Organization)
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Conditions Governing Use
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Biographical / Historical
A woolen manufacturer in Dexter, Maine, was a family-owned business from its beginnings in the 1820's until its closing in 1975. It was first a carding and fulling operation and was known successively as Abbott, Eaton & Co.; Abbott, Cutler & Co.; and Abbott, Sawyer & Co. In 1831, it became Amos Abbott Co.; it was incorporated in 1899.
Extent
0.6 cubic feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Includes images of the Maine Woolen Manufacturer's Club, Bates Manufacturing Company, and Knowles Loom Works and Harrison Yarn and Dying Company.
Custodial History
American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of the Amos Abbott Company and Jere Abbott.
- Amos Abbott Company
- Bates Manufacturing Company
- Child labor.
- Cotton manufacture -- United States
- Dexter (Me.)
- Dyes and dyeing
- Harrison Yarn and Dyeing Co. (Pawtucket, R.I.)
- Knowles Loom Works
- Looms.
- Maine Woolen Manufacturers' Club
- Male employees
- Moosehead Lake (Me.)
- Textile industry
- Textile machinery
- Textile manufacturers
- Women employees
- Woolen mills
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