Bleaching industry
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Birch Brothers Records
Collection of incoming correspondence from various textile manufacturers concerning orders for company's products.
Irwin Laverne Powers Papers
Chemistry notebooks with cloth samples, from Powers' work at Silver Spring Bleaching & Dyeing Company, Providence, Rhode Island. Also notes concerning linen bleaching & dyes and dyestuffs. Also essay on history of dyes and dyestuffs written by Powers' daughter, Dorothy Powers, while she was a student at Thayer Academy, Braintree, Massachusetts. She mentions her father's role in synthetic dye manufacture.
Leonard A. Yerkes Papers
Letter to R.B. Clogston, Superintendent of Farwell Bleachery, Lawrence, Massachusetts. Yerkes, writing on letterhead of Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co., manufacturers, bleachers, dyers & finishers, writes to Clogston concerning a job.
Nathaniel F. Ayer Papers
Letter from Ayers to Clogston to offer him the job of superintendent at the bleachery.