Box 1

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Includes photographs of mill workers and executives at Slater Mills in Webster, Massachusetts and mill interiors of the Blackstone Mill of the Lonsdale Co., Blackstone, Massachusetts, and unknown mill interiors. Also includes a photograph of Joseph Dancewicz and a portrait of a woman with three children.

Scope and Contents

Gelatin silver print, [194-?]. Image depicts cotton weave room of unknown mill, with one male and one female worker visible. Probably Draper looms. May be the Blackstone Mill of the Lonsdale Co. in Blackstone, Mass. 21.5 x 16.5 cm.

Format: black and white photograph.

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Gelatin silver print, [194-?]. Image depicts large cotton weave room of unknown mill, with a few workers visible. Probably Draper looms. May be the Blackstone Mill of the Lonsdale Co. in Blackstone, Mass. 21.5 x 16.5 cm.

Format: black and white photograph.

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Gelatin silver print. Image depicts four men in suits in office of unknown mill, possibly the Blackstone Mill of the Lonsdale Co., Blackstone, Mass. Man seated on left is Carl Johnson, superintendent (1936-40) and general superintendent (1940-46) of the Blackstone Mill. The man seated on the right is Joseph Dancewicz (1906-78), who worked at the Blackstone Mill from 1936 to 1952. 9 x 12.5 cm.

Format: black and white photograph.

Scope and Contents Gelatin silver print, [1939?]. Image depicts three men at Crompton & Knowles: man on left is H.P. Derrickson, an executive at the Blackstone Mill of the Lonsdale Co., Blackstone, Mass.; man in middle is Carl Johnson, superintendent (1936-40) and general superintendent (1940-46) of Blackstone; man on right is Joseph A. Dancewicz (1906-78), who was overseer of weaving and slashing for the Blackstone Mill from 1936 to 1942. 13.5 x 9 cm. (w/out mount); 14.5 x 11 cm. (w/mount)....

Scope and Contents Gelatin silver print. Image depicts five men at Crompton & Knowles Loom Works [Worcester, Mass.]: man second from left is Carl Johnson, superintendent (1936-40) and general superintendent (1940-46) of the Blackstone Mill of the Lonsdale Co., Blackstone, Mass.; man second from right is H.P. Derrickson, an executive at the Blackstone Mill; man at far right is Joseph A. Dancewicz (1906-78), who was the overseer of weaving and slashing for the Blackstone Mill from 1936 to 1942. 14 x 8.5 cm....

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Gelatin silver print. Image depicts two men; man on left is Joseph A. Dancewicz (1906-78) who was overseer of weaving and slashing at the Blackstone Mill of the Lonsdale Co. in Blackstone, Mass., from 1936 until 1942; the man on the right is H.P. Derrckson who was an executive at the Blackstone Mill. 9.5 x 7.5 cm.

Format: black and white photograph.

Scope and Contents

Gelatin silver print. Image of Joseph A. Dancewicz (1906-78), who worked at the Slater Mills in Webster, Mass. from 1922 until 1936, then in the Blackstone Mill of the Lonsdale Co. in Blackstone, Mass. from 1936 until 1952. Photograph taken outside; picket fence in background. 8 x 14 cm.

Format: black and white photograph.

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Gelatin silver print. Studio portrait of a woman with two children, most probably members of the Dancewicz family. Joseph A. Dancewicz (1906-78) is most likely the boy on the right; the other two may be his mother and sister. Note the wristwatch on the girl's right arm. This print appears to be a copy made from an earlier photograph that had tears and cracks through it. 12.5 x 17.5 cm.

Format: black and white photograph.

Scope and Contents

Gelatin silver print. Image shows posed group of male mill workers with supervisors or overseers in the Slater Mills in Webster, Mass. The group supposedly includes Joseph Dancewicz, but he does not appear to be here. See 1990.20.23 for another image taken in this room. 21.5 x 16.5 cm.

Format: black and white photograph.