R. D. Nesmith Company Records
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Scope and Contents
Includes account book of Nesmith & Tatterson, 1845-1849, listing goods delivered, including raw materials and dyestuffs, as well as goods sent elsewhere for finishing. Also includes ledger, 1845-1851, of payroll and manufacturing accounts; a work and time book, 1845-1848; a weave room time book, 1851-1852, listing workers' names; and weaving records, 1849-1850, listing workers' names, number of pieces, weight, and number of yards.
Dates
- 1845-1851
Creator
- R. D. Nesmith and Company (creator, Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Conditions Governing Access
Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference archivist for access to these materials.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.
Biographical / Historical
R.D. Nesmith Company, was a woolen mill in South Berwick, Maine. Company originally known as Nesmith & Tatterson and was a partnership between R.D. Nesmith and John Tatterson.
Extent
0.25 cubic feet
Abstract
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.
Custodial History
American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of Edward Morrill & Son, Inc.
Quantity:
0.2 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, time books, records (documents) .
General
- Contact Information:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives 227 Ives Hall Tower Road Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183 kheelref@cornell.edu https://catherwood.library.cornell.edu/kheel/
- Compiled by:
- M. Clark, September 05, 2019
- EAD encoding:
- Marcie Farwell, October 09, 2019
Processing Information
The ATHM # references the accession number given to collections by the American Textile History Museum (ATHM). These numbers have been kept and tracked for researchers looking for former citations. The ATHM accession number for this collection was 0022.143.
- Business records
- Farrington, Isaac.
- Financial records
- Globe Steam Mills
- Great Works Manufacturing Company
- Industries
- Labor records
- Nesmith & Tatterson
- Nesmith, R. D.
- Payrolls
- R. D. Nesmith and Company
- South Berwick (Me.)
- Tatterson, John.
- Textile factories
- Textile industry
- Textile machinery
- Textile workers
- Wages
- Women employees
- Women textile workers
- Wool industry
- Woolen and worsted manufacture
- Title
- Nesmith, R. D. and Company Records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by M. Clark
- Date
- October 09, 2019
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Revision Statements
- 02/23/2024: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
Repository Details
Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository