Griffin & Taylor Company Records

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Identifier: 6674

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Scope and Contents

Includes business records, 1864-1871, including payroll records, daily spinning room production records, invoice books, bales assigned to Faulkner, Kimball & Co., supply ledger for dye house, property & departmental inventories. Also payrolls, time books for day hands, scouring receipts, spinning room production records and payroll. 1870 inventory lists in detail tools and machinery owned by the mill.

Dates

1865-1871

Creator

Griffin & Taylor Company (creator, Organization)
J.P. Stevens & Co. (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

Griffin & Taylor; Taylor & Company, Franklin, New Hampshire. Woolen manufacturing company that started in 1864 as Griffin and Taylor. In 1865, It became Taylor & Company, employing an average of fifty workers producing dress goods, fancy shirting, and blankets. Faulkner, Kimball & Company of Boston acted as selling agents. It was acquired by M.T. Stevens & Sons, 1871 and it became their Franklin Mill.

Extent

3 cubic feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Includes payroll records, daily spinning room production records, invoice books, bales assigned to Faulkner, Kimball & Co., supply ledger for dye house, property & departmental inventories including inventory lists in detail tools and machinery owned by the mill.

Custodial History

American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of J.P. Stevens & Co.

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 0022.119 (which incorporated 0022.254 and 0022.267). 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 0022.119.1.3, would indicate that the material was formerly in Box 1, Folder 3.

The over all arrangemt given by ATHM was kept, with a few exceptions. ATHM had previously moved the contents of folder 1 listed as "Correspondence from Davis & Furber regarding card clothing prices" into the Davis & Fuber records and the physical folder left empty. Upon processing at the Kheel Center this empty folder was removed and folders were renumbered accordingly.