Helena E. Wright Collection of Textile Industry Records
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Scope and Contents
Helena E. Wright Collection of Textile Industry Records is a collection of letters, invoices, and blank letterheads and forms related to early textile companies. The collection was created for the study of the graphics contained in the design of the letterheads, billheads, and invoices.
Dates
- 1854-1889
Creator
- Wright, Helena, 1946- (creator, Person)
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
Curator Helena E. Wright, formerly of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, researches the role of graphic media in expanding visual culture. She won a 2017 Secretary's Research Prize.
Extent
.3 cubic feet
Language of Materials
English
Custodial History
American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of Helena E. Wright.
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. This collection contained many ATHM accession numbers, all of which have been recorded in the processing note for each item or folder.
- Albany (N.Y.)
- Amos Abbott Company
- Ashton (R.I.)
- Bach Society of New Jersey
- Baltimore (Md.)
- Bangor (Me.)
- Berkeley Mill (Ashton, R.I.)
- Berliner Company
- Bocholt (Germany)
- Clothing trade
- Clothing workers
- Daniel Miller & Co.
- Durfee Mills (Fall River, Mass.)
- Essex Woolen Mills
- Flax industry
- Greene, M. E.
- Howarth's Mill (Oxford, Mass.)
- Invoices
- Joseph and Feiss Company (Cleveland, Ohio)
- Lockport Felt Company
- Lonsdale (R.I.)
- Lonsdale Company
- Manufacture nationale de tapisserie des Gobelins (France)
- Mount Vernon (Va.)
- New Bedford (Mass.)
- Oxford (Mass.)
- Soo Hardware Co.
- Textile industry
- Tiverton Print Works
- Wannalancit Mills (Lowell, Mass.)
- Westfälisches Industriemuseum
- Woolen and worsted manufacture
- Wright, Helena, 1946-
Source
- American Textile History Museum (Organization)
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository