Textile industry
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Essex Company Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 6633 P
Abstract
Photographs of water turbines, canal construction and repair, storm damage, as well as other subjects. Most of the photographs were taken in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
Dates:
1872-1967
Essex Company Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6633
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...
Dates:
undated
Pemberton Mill Relief Committee Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6831
Abstract
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.
Dates:
undated