Weaving.
Found in 64 Collections and/or Records:
David Briant Papers
Account book of weaver David Briant, or possibly Bryant, of Worcester, MA, listing names of individuals, their debts and credits for weaving, spinning, purchases of pork, butter, tobacco, calf skins, etc. Credit is given for days of work, sheep skins, calf skins, bushels of flax seed, and use of oxen.
Dora Erway photographs
Draper Corporation Graphics
Collection of graphics created by and relating to the Draper Corporations machinery.
Durfee Mill Records
Contains "invoiced" accounts of number of cases of woolen goods consigned to various agents to the account to George M. Durfee. Also, record of warps woven by individually named weavers; record kept by boss weaver, Anthony Dixon for R.G. Rodman (son?) at the Durfee Mill. Warps received from Gray Stone Manufacturing Co., N. Providence and Vaughan & Green, Wakefield, R.I.; also milk accounts, possibly kept by Albro Family in Rocky Brook store
Elinor C. Larson Papers
Collection of information gathered by Larson about various textile fabrics and companies. Also contains a letter from the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union, answering Larson's inquiry about a cotton fabric in the Mount Vernon collection which was reprinted for the U.S. Centennial in 1876; and a letter from Diane Fagan Affleck, Merrimack Valley Textile Museum, North Andover, MA, giving information about fabrics in the Museum's collection.
Ernest A. Bragg Papers
Notebook on cotton/weaving compiled by Ernest A. Bragg.
Ernest D. Chapman Papers
Collection was assembled by Ernest D. Chapman of Clark's Falls, CT and of South Berwick, ME containing correspondence to Ernest D. Chapman from Harmon Goodwin (a fellow weaver) of South Berwick, ME along with weaving drafts and samples created by and/or collected by Mr. Chapman; and sixty photographs of coverlets and their patterns documented by Mr. Chapman.