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American Textile History Museum

 Organization

Found in 681 Collections and/or Records:

Dover Manufacturing Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: 6611
Scope and Contents Yarn bean volume gives number and weight of beam, number of yarn and thread, and names of workers. Collection also includes a printed pay forms from D.M.C. Upper Store for labor at Factory No. 1; receipts and printed checks; a letter, May 15, 1828, from John K. Pickering, Portsmouth, N.H., to William Shimmin, treasurer of the Dover Manufacturing Co., about financial problems relating to the failure of the company; and a letter, May 7, 1828, from William Fettyplace with a bill for work...
Dates: 1822-1898

Draper Corporation Graphics

 Collection
Identifier: 6612 G
Abstract

Collection of graphics created by and relating to the Draper Corporations machinery.

Dates: undated

Duck Company Construction Drawings

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6978 G

Dudley Shuttle Company Graphics

 Collection
Identifier: 6613 G
Abstract

Collection of floor plans of the Dudley Shuttle Company.

Dates: undated

Dudley Shuttle Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: 6613
Scope and Contents

The Dudley Shuttle Company Records contains records of Dudley Shuttles, Inc., a shuttle manufacturer in Wilkinsonville, a locality of Sutton, MA.

The collection also contains various records of the Watson-Williams Manufacturing Co., makers of shuttles, heddle frames, heddles, hand cards, and stripper cards. These records are here presumably because of Howard Pellatt's employment at Watson-Williams before he purchased D.T. Dudley & Son.

Dates: undated

Durfee Mill Account Book

 Collection
Identifier: 6614
Abstract

Contains "invoiced" accounts of number of cases of woolen goods consigned to various agents to the account to George M. Durfee. Also, record of warps woven by individually named weavers; record kept by boss weaver, Anthony Dixon for R.G. Rodman (son?) at the Durfee Mill. Warps received from Gray Stone Manufacturing Co., N. Providence and Vaughan & Green, Wakefield, R.I.; also milk accounts, possibly kept by Albro Family in Rocky Brook store

Dates: 1873-1879

E. Davis Records

 Collection
Identifier: 6616
Abstract

Collection of a consignment book listing types of goods, number of yards of fabric, and to whom they were assigned. Also a time book listing workers' names and the amount of hours they worked.

Dates: undated

Additional filters:

Subject
Textile industry 445
Textile workers 168
Woolen and worsted manufacture 147
Textile machinery 141
Cotton manufacture 129
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Textile factories 93
Dyes and dyeing 73
Weaving. 62
Industrial relations 54
Textile machinery industry 54
Textile manufacturers 52
Manufacturers' agents 47
Looms. 45
Wool industry 43
Lawrence (Mass.) 41
Wages. 39
Textile fabrics. 34
Women textile workers 33
Spinning machinery 32
Wool 28
Yarn 28
Carding-machines 26
Payrolls. 25
Industries 24
Carding 23
Spinning 23
Lowell (Mass.) 22
Silk industry 20
Swatches (Dry-goods) 20
Textile finishing 20
Woolen and worsted machinery 19
Cotton machinery 18
Knitting machines 18
Labor 18
Textile schools 17
Cotton 16
Male employees 16
Advertising 15
Child labor. 15
Flannel 15
Textile printing 15
Water-power. 15
Textile research 14
Weavers 14
Knit goods industry 13
Patents. 13
Cotton trade 12
Merrimack River (N.H. and Mass.) 12
Women employees 12
Business records 11
Clothing and dress. 11
Hosiery industry 11
Labor unions 11
Linen industry 11
Strikes and lockouts 11
Textile Workers' Strike, Lawrence, Mass., 1912 11
Textile chemistry 11
Winding machines 11
Business enterprises 10
Flax industry 10
Sheep. 10
Cotton fabrics 9
Dams. 9
Dye industry 9
Inventors. 9
Machine shops 9
North Andover (Mass.) 9
Taunton (Mass.) 9
Textile design 9
Trade associations 9
Wool scouring 9
Woolen and worsted finishing 9
Woolen and worsted spinning 9
Worcester (Mass.) 9
World War, 1914-1918 9
Andover (Mass.) 8
Coverlets 8
Fashion. 8
Rug and carpet industry 8
Women's clothing 8
Wool-carding 8
Worsted 8
Bleaching industry 7
Boston (Mass.) 7
Combing machines 7
Cotton textiles 7
Dry-goods. 7
Employee rules 7
Machinists 7
Manchester (N.H.) 7
Mill agents 7
Pickers (Weaving) 7
Real property. 7
Textile fibers 7
World War, 1939-1945 7
Belts and belting 6
Blankets 6
Cloth labels 6
Cotton spinning 6
Drawing. 6
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