New England Southern Mills and International Cotton Mills Records

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Identifier: 6700

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Scope and Contents

The collection consists of the records of the cost department of the Boston office from 1913 to 1926. The mills were required to file numerous reports on costs, production, and man-hours which were analyzed by the cost department. The record is most complete for the year 1926. There is also a single volume of Directors and Stockholders records for the Stark Mill in Manchester, New Hampshire. These papers were a gift of the Northern Textile Association in 1967.

Dates

1838-1927

Creator

Northern Textile Association (creator, Organization)

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

The International Cotton Mills grew out of a reorganization of the Consolidated Cotton Duck Company. It was incorporated in 1910 with a capital of twenty million dollars and a large percentage of the duck industry under its control. In 1923 it became the New England Southern Mills. The individual mills represented in this collection are the Stark Mills in Manchester, New Hampshire and Hogansville, Georgia; mills in the towns of Touraine, Addison, LaGrange, Lancaster, and Hogansville, Georgia; and a mill in Lisbon, Maine.

Extent

3.3 cubic feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Custodial History

American Textile History Museum Collection, 1967 gift of the Northern Textile Association.

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 0022.421.1. When the materials had been processed by the ATHM, we kept the records in the original order but sometimes the box and folders numbers will change. The old numbers appear in the processing note, the box and folder are the numbers that immediately follow the accession number. For instance, the number 1989.97.1.4.3, would indicate that the material was formerly in Box 4, Folder 3.