Business records

Records include payroll (From Ellis, Converse & Co.), outgoing correspondence, notebook of orders, weaving drafts & counts, including price lists and costs, and 2 folders of miscellaneous drafts. Correspondents include H. & W.H. Lewis, Laidlaw Co., & Lynx Corp., all of New York City. Includes Navy contracts & government bids, 1917-1934.

Records, correspondence and daybooks of the Appleton mills in Lowell, MA.

Incoming correspondence re business and family, 1869-1873

Photographs of textile machinery, textile workers, and carpet samples.

Photographs of Draper Company machinery, company events, company owned buildings, and surroundings.

Business records, 1932-1956, most from the Boston office & centering on information about ramie. Includes correspondence, all concerning ramie; some letters discuss decortication & degumming of the fibers. Also a file of information about ramie, and folders of samples of ramie twine, some of which was made in Switzerland & tested by the Plymouth Cordage Co.

Photographs of water turbines, canal construction and repair, storm damage, as well as other subjects. Most of the photographs were taken in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

14 time books (weekly) from machinery repair shop (1931-1961); diary, 1954, of shop foreman listing repair work done each day by each employee; typescript lubrication survey for Farnsworth Mill done by Gulf Oil Corp., Portland, Me., ca 1950.

Includes records of incorporation & minutes of stockholders' meetings, 1859-1884; minutes of Directors' meetings, 1877-1903; ledger, indexed, with cash and credit information, 1859-1867; records of dividends paid, 1882-1912; correspondence about dividends, 1905-1906, & notes on company history, n.d., 1954.

Letter books of outgoing correspondence, 1867-1869, 1875-1876, including invoices; also incoming postcards to Groveland Mills, 1883-1884; and a group of cancelled checks, 1872-1873.