Textile workers

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Payroll book belonging to Pettee, listing mainly female employees from Elliot Mills.

Abstract Records include correspondence and memoranda, 1854-1889, concerning contracts, construction and purchases; also letters from English operatives re the conditions of their employment at Pacific Mills, 1862-1866; orders for English machinery by William C. Chapin, Agt., 1862; tax bills & receipts; construction memorandum, 1873. Also includes one spinning time book, 1879-1881; name in flyleaf, "Mr. John Barker, W Spinning, Pacific Mills, Lawrence." Also assignment of patent rights, 1876,...

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Collection includes meeting minutes, survey of relief needs, city canvasser's report, detailed ward inspectors' and physicians' reports and correspondence. Financial records include account books listing amount spent per employee, cash received, check registers, vouchers and index to cash vouchers. Also copy of Robert H. Tewksbury's "Historical Sketch: The Fall of the Pemberton Mill," published in 1900.

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Notebook entitled, "Reeling account," ca. 1840; includes description of spinning flax.

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Records include account book of goods delivered, raw materials & dyestuffs; also goods sent elsewhere for finishing, 1845-1849; payroll & manufacturing accounts, few dye receipts, 1845- 1851; a work and time book, 1845-48; weave room time book, 1851-1852; weaving records, per employee, 1849-1850.

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A series of 24 photographs depicting the dyeing process from beginning to end.