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Textile industry

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 475 Collections and/or Records:

Hollingworth Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 6694
Abstract

Correspondence mostly received by William Rawcliff, largley written by the Joseph Hollingworth, along with his father George and brother Jabez, John, and James.

Dates: 1812-1837

Idaho Wool Growers Association Records

 Collection
Identifier: 6697
Abstract

History of the Association, its officers, and locations of its annual meetings, 1894-1904.

Dates: 1904

Interlaken Mills Records

 Collection
Identifier: 6699
Scope and Contents

Collection includes correspondence, ca. 1884-ca. 1945; agreements with sales agents; financial records; cotton purchase records and regulations; advertising and sample books; lists of new help. Contains constitution and bylaws of Bookcloth Salesmen's Association, 1918.

Dates: 1884 - 1944

Irving W. Winn Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 6757/004
Scope and Contents Records include student notes, 1948-1954, with illustrations and samples (swatches) from a dye laboratory, a machine tool laboratory, and reports of experiments for courses on cotton manufacture, textile engineering physics, and textile testing. Also includes examinations, reports, and notes from courses on cotton finishing, cotton manufacture, color, chemistry, mill engineering, and time study. A report of a tour in 1950 of them Pequot Mills, a cotton manufacturer in Salem, Massachusetts is...
Dates: 1948-1952

Irwin Laverne Powers Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 6701
Abstract

Chemistry notebooks with cloth samples, from Powers' work at Silver Spring Bleaching & Dyeing Company, Providence, Rhode Island. Also notes concerning linen bleaching & dyes and dyestuffs. Also essay on history of dyes and dyestuffs written by Powers' daughter, Dorothy Powers, while she was a student at Thayer Academy, Braintree, Massachusetts. She mentions her father's role in synthetic dye manufacture.

Dates: 1902-1903; 1926

J. Wallace Smith Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 6705
Abstract

Includes notes on finishing and dyeing and styles at Wood and Washington Mills, a scrapbook of printed articles about woolens, dyeing, and notes on other textiles. Also includes a brief note on Smith's work history.

Dates: 1906-1954