Collection of correspondence, dye chemistry information and contract.

Includes chemistry lab notebook, swatches; notes and recipes for dyes and pastes; also correspondence from Rohm and Haas Co, Philadelphia and National Aniline and Chemical Co., New York.

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.

Collection includes a report by the Textile Workers' Union of America and two payroll ledgers from the Middlesex Company, Lowell, Massachusetts.

Papers include diary, 1924, containing notes on dyes, dye house rates and the cost of coal and coke; diary, 1937, listing rates of pay and changes in rates for various people indicated by initials only; and notebook, from Prof. Edward Golec (Lowell Technical Institute), containing diary, 1950, includes sheets of notes, many on letterhead of the Merrimack Manufacturing Co.,(Lowell, Mass.) laid in.