Wool technology -- General

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Records include payroll (From Ellis, Converse & Co.), outgoing correspondence, notebook of orders, weaving drafts & counts, including price lists and costs, and 2 folders of miscellaneous drafts. Correspondents include H. & W.H. Lewis, Laidlaw Co., & Lynx Corp., all of New York City. Includes Navy contracts & government bids, 1917-1934.

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Collection contains incoming correspondence, 1930-1963, reports on cloth production for the armed forces, 1941-1945, and other war-related materials; papers concerning the mill closing, 1962-1963; and information files including clippings, pamphlets, notes and articles on wages and hours, company history, fashions, mill closings, and imports.

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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.

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Letter books of outgoing correspondence, 1867-1869, 1875-1876, including invoices; also incoming postcards to Groveland Mills, 1883-1884; and a group of cancelled checks, 1872-1873.

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Records include certificate of incorporation, amendments and bylaws, 1903-1924; minutes of directors' meetings, 1916-1933; minutes of stockholders' meetings, 1924-1932; correspondence, 1915-1930; record of stock purchases and transfers, 1906-1932; and stock certificates and stubs, 1903-1932.

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,...

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...