Otis Company Records

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Identifier: 6822

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Scope and Contents

Includes a typescript of a speech, 1915, by George E. Tucker, agent at Ware, about the history of the Otis Co. and the town of Ware, Massachusetts; and a typescript of a speech by R.C. Newell, agent at the Palmer Mill (Palmer Manufacturing Co.), about the history of that mill. Also includes correspondence, 1922-1927; clippings, 1924-1940, about the history of the textile industry; payrolls, 1882, 1883, 1889, 1892-1893, from the Boston Manufacturing Co.; a production cost memo for 1843-1922 of the Nashua Manufacturing Co., Nashua, New Hampshire, etc. Also contains material from the Appleton Co., Anderson, South Carolina, including a pamphlet describing employee health and life insurance benefits, a broadside, 1952, entitled: Why I will vote against the C.I.O.; and a copy of a speech by S.M. Beattie at the annual meeting, 1937, of the Cotton Manufacturers' Association of South Carolina.

Dates

1889-1952

Creator

Otis Company (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 company, located in Boston, was a cotton manufacturer formed in 1839. It acquired various other companies including the Columbian Manufacturing Company, the Ware Manufacturing Company, and the Boston Duck Company.

Extent

0 cubic feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Include papers concerning Palmer Company and Ware Company, including mill histories, strike of 1922, etc.; also payroll for Boston Manufacturing Company; Bliss Fabyan price list; Nashua Manufacturing Company production costs.

Custodial History

American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of Charles B. Nichols.

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 0022.412.3.

Order as created by ATHM was kept. Folder number 7 seemed to have been skipped so folders were renumbered upon processing at Kheel.