Water-power.

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Collection of records of the C,G. Chauncy & Sons, Chauncy Mills, James M. Sargent Co., Stony Brook Water Power Co., and personal papers of C.G. Sargent

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Collection of records from various cotton manufacturing companies (1905-1924). Includes items from or pertaining to E.J. Kitching & Co., Boston; Hill Manufacturing Co., Lewiston, Maine; a lawsuit between Otis Co. and Ludlow Manufacturing Co./Ludlow Cordage Co. regarding flooding from a dam; Tremont & Suffolk Mills, Lowell, MA; Whitin Machine Works, Whitinsville, MA regarding combing machinery for Lawrence Manufacturing Co., Lowell, MA.

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Collection of records including act of incorporation, bylaws & deeds, and directors' meetings; land records; water flowage complaints; financial ledgers. Also act of incorporation of Rochester Street Railroad Co.

Scope and Contents The Essex Company Records document the engineering, city planning, and corporate management that created the industrial city of Lawrence. Series of correspondence and memoranda indicate the degree to which these earlier models of developments at Lowell, Manchester, and other New England textile corporation towns, were followed for planning, construction, and operation of the water power system, factories, and housing. Records of the Lawrence Machine Shop illustrate the pattern of machine...

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Collection includes the agreement to form a corporation, finacial records; a stock certificate, for company shares owned by John A. Faulkner; and a document giving Luther Faulkner's attorney power to vote for him at a stockholders' meeting,. Also includes a sample of wool and a cloth sample (swatch). Contains legal papers relating to water power.

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Professional papers of Gerard Hendrik Matthes, a hydraulic engineer and member of the U.S. Geological Survey.