Box 1
Contains 89 Results:
Item 1: Administration Building, Shawsheen Village, Andover, Mass., 1936
March 20, 1936. Image depicts flood of March 1936. The Adnministration Building housed the executive offices of the American Woolen Company. Note the rowboat with two figures in it in the center background, and the building almost entirely covered by floo
Format: Black and White photograph.
Item 2: Balmoral Spa, Shawsheen Village, Andover, Mass., 1936
March 20, 1936. Image depicts flood of March 1936. The Balmoral Spa, built by the American Woolen Company as part of the planned village of Shawsheen, housed a drug store, barber shop, hairdresser, offices and a dance hall. The flood waters of the Shawshe
Format: Black and White photograph.
Item 3: Den Rock Road, Shawsheen Village, Andover, Mass., 1936
March 20, 1936. Image depicts flood of March 1936. Photograph was taken at 3:00 p.m. Den Rock Road is the present-day Route 114 that runs through Lawrence and Andover, Mass. This is probably in the Shawsheen Village area, which was home to the American Wo
Format: Black and White photograph.
Item 4: Balmoral Spa, Shawsheen Village, Andover, Mass., 1936
March 20, 1936. Image depicts flood of March 1936. The Balmoral Spa, built by the American Woolen Company as part of the planned village of Shawsheen, housed a drug store, barber shop, hairdresser, offices and a dance hall. The flood waters of the Shawshe
Format: Black and White photograph.
Item 1: About 300,000 lbs. of wet top at Wood Mill, Lawrence, Mass., 1927
Image depicts pounds of wet top in Wood Mill yard, American Woolen Company, Lawrence, Mass. Typed on reverse: "Nov. 14 - 18 - 1927 About 300,000 lbs. of Wet Top." Top is a ball of wool or manufactured fiber (in this case wool) generally weighing 5 to 15 p
Format: Black and White photograph.
Item 2: About 300,000 lbs. of wet top at Wood Mill, Lawrence, Mass., 1927
Image depicts pounds of wet top in Wood Mill yard, American Woolen Company, Lawrence, Mass. Typed on reverse: "Nov. 14 - 18 - 1927 About 300,000 lbs. of Wet Top." Top is a ball of wool or manufactured fiber (in this case wool) generally weighing 5 to 15 p
Format: Black and White photograph.
Item 3: About 300,000 lbs. of wet top at Wood Mill, Lawrence, Mass., 1927
Image depicts pounds of wet top in Wood Mill yard, American Woolen Company, Lawrence, Mass. Typed on reverse: "Nov. 14 - 18 - 1927 About 300,000 lbs. of Wet Top." Top is a ball of wool or manufactured fiber (in this case wool) generally weighing 5 to 15 p
Format: Black and White photograph.
Item 4: About 300,000 lbs. of wet top at Wood Mill, Lawrence, Mass., 1927
Image depicts pounds of wet top in Wood Mill yard, American Woolen Company, Lawrence, Mass. Typed on reverse: "Nov. 14 - 18 - 1927 About 300,000 lbs. of Wet Top." Top is a ball of wool or manufactured fiber (in this case wool) generally weighing 5 to 15 p
Format: Black and White photograph.
Item 1: Duck Bridge, Lawrence, Mass., 1936
March 20, 1936. Image depicts flood of March 1936. Written on reverse of Copy B: "Duck Bridge, taken from Card Room (Wood Mill), Friday, [March] 20, 1936 (9:00 A.M.)." The Duck Bridge, whose formal name was the Union Street Bridge, ran between Union and S
Format: Black and White photograph.
Item 2: Wood Mill yard taken from the supply room, Lawrence, Mass., 1936
March 19, 1936. Image depicts the yard of the Wood Mill (owned by the American Woolen Co.) in Lawrence, Mass., taken from the supply room on Thursday, March 19, 1936 at 3 p.m. Notice the little wooden shed, which appears to shift slightly in the next phot
Format: Black and White photograph.