Woolen and worsted manufacture

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Photographs of Merrimack Woolen Mills construction and completed mill.

Scope and Contents Mohawk River Mills, Cohoes, NY. Business records, 1854-1885 (ca. 250 items). Includes certificate of incorporation, contract to construct a factory, minutes of meetings of stockholders & trustees, and correspondence of Truman G. Younglove, company president. Also accounts with Cohoes Iron Foundry and Machine Shop; water rent accounts for Mohawk and for Flax Cotton Mills building; bills and receipts, production and payroll records; inventories of stock on hand, including those for...

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Mostly photographs of cyclone and flood damage in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

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Records include stockholders' ledger, 1941-1959; annual financial statements, 1950-1954; articles of incorporation, as amended by typescript, 1945, 1949, 1951, 1953 (gift of W.G. Northrup, Portsmouth, NH, June 1963); minutes, 1953-1958, of directors' & stockholders' meetings; and correspondence.

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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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.

Abstract Collection of materials related to the textile industry including Amoskeag Co. blank forms. Comparisons of wages between foreign and American printeries. Correspondence to H. Saltonstall, Treasurer, Pacific Mills, Boston. Letter from Jess Chandler of Methuen, Mass. to his niece. Document from an unidentified compiler in England describing loss of money from uncertainty of finding a purchaser for winding engines because of threats of throwsters to destroy engines. Letter from Bent, treasurer...