Box 1

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Comparisons of wages between foreign and American printeries. Includes a list of wage rates by job, particularly of printers and weavers. Companies mentioned include Cocheco Manufacturing Co., Dover, N.H., and Merrimack Print Works, Lowell, Mass., as well as four unnamed print works in Scotland.

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Letter indicates that Chandler's father was the first to build this type of loom in the area.

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Letter is addressed to Mr. Batchelder and discusses the price of wool

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Addressed to Mr.Crombie discussing sale and purchase of cotton and wool, 1862- 63 (includes comment on recruiting workers from Manchester, England).

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Document from an unidentified compiler in England describing loss of money from uncertainty of finding a purchaser for winding engines because of threats of throwsters to destroy engines. Also outlines advantages to throwsters and the poor in using and managing engines

Scope and Contents Bent, treasurer of Mason Machine Works, Taunton, Mass., writes to Chace at Bourne Mills in Fall River, Mass., about measurements of belts for cards and railway heads. Collection also includes a letter, dated Nov. 19, 1927, from H & B (Howard and Bullough) American Machine Company, Pawtucket, R.I., to Lawrence Anderson, Superintendent, Laurel Lake Mills, Fall River. H & B Co. was a builder of cotton machinery. Letter concerns a blueprint showing proposed arrangement of hopper bale...