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Textile industry

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 478 Collections and/or Records:

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

Everett Mills Records

 Collection
Identifier: 6634
Abstract

Collection of the memorandum book of Charles J. Ford and notes on machinery and setup in the department.

Dates: 1897-1927

F. Chase & Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: 6635
Scope and Contents

Sales and purchasing correspondence. Records include only suppliers and customers whose names begin with the letters E, F, G, R, and S. The general business records include letters seeking employment at Chase, matters relating to the Chase firm's space in the Eaton Building (owned by the estate of Sarah B. Eaton), and one letter regarding insurance.

Dates: 1899-1905

Farnsworth Manufacturing Records

 Collection
Identifier: 6636
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1931-1961

Farr Alpaca Company Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6637
Abstract

Collection of business records of the Farr Alpaca Company including financial, payroll, correspondence, sales, and production records.

Dates: undated

Faulkner Mills Records

 Collection
Identifier: 6638
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1897-1899

Faxon, Elms and Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: 6639
Abstract

Letterbook of outgoing correspondence concerning selling goods of several smaller New England mills through offices and warehouses in Providence, New York, etc., to U.S. and British "clothing and trimming houses." Volume is indexed by name of correspondent.

Dates: 1870-1871

Fisher A. Buell, Jr., Collection of Textile Related Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 6641 P
Abstract

Portraits, photographs of the Johnson home, and photographs of the Johnson yachts.

Dates: 1850-1900