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Stevens Linen Works. [Business records].

Title: [Business records]. 1790-1959.

Includes treasurers' papers and correspondence, 1868-1908, and executive correspondence of company presidents and agents, 1834-1912. Financial records include cash books, 1849-1927, and accounts payable and receivable, 1843-1868; purchasing records contain bills paid, 1844-1906, order books, 1846-1855, and vouchers, 1879-1895. Contains sales orders, 1839-1884; freight bills, 1847-1915; labor records, with rent rolls, 1873-1882; wage rates, 1943-1950; payrolls and reports, 1851-1900 and later; time books, 1840-1922; and various production records. Contains cash books, 1898-1929, of the Nevins Co.; some financial and sales records of the Pemberton Co., a cotton manufacturer in Lawrence, Mass., and part of the Nevins Co.; cash books, 1893-1900, of the Methuen Co., Methuen, Mass., manufacturers of cotton duck, ticking and awnings, and also part of the Nevins Co.; sales journals, 1866-1887, and annual returns, 1885-1888, of the Webster Gas & Light Co., Webster, Mass.; miscellaneous Crawford family papers; and some records of the town of Dudley, Mass.

ArchivalResource: 83 ft.

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Hoffman, Ed. (Edward). Lawrence, Mass., lithograph, 1854?.

Title: Lawrence, Mass., lithograph, 1854?.

Lithograph showing an idealized image of Lawrence as a planned city: grand stone mill buildings, including the Pemberton Mill, the brick city hall and Mechanics Block, and the Lawrence Common with spires of several early churches edging it. The view is taken from Prospect Hill and a bucolic scene of dense vegetation and a grazing cow compliment the growing city.

ArchivalResource: 1 item ; 27 x 39.75 in.

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Essex Company (Lawrence, Mass.). Records, 1845-1987 (bulk 1845-1965).

Title: Records, 1845-1987 (bulk 1845-1965).

Materials documenting the company's principal activity from 1745-1897: to supply and manage the delivery of waterpower to the major manufacturers along the banks of the canals and rivers in Lawrence, Mass.; together with materials relating to the development of the city of Lawrence, as the directors of Essex Company were responsible for its early planning.

ArchivalResource: 552 linear ft.

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Pemberton Mill Relief Committee. [Records].

Title: [Records]. 1860-1861, 1900.

Records include meeting minutes, 1860; survey of relief needs, arranged alphabetically by victim's name; city canvasser's report, indicating condition of victim, address, nationality, amount of relief or wages due; ward inspectors' and physicians' reports; correspondence, both incoming and outgoing; treasurer's reports and other financial information, 1860-1861; and vouchers and cancelled checks, 1860-1861. Includes copy of Robert H. Tewksbury's "Historical Sketch: The Fall of the Pemberton Mill," published in 1900.

ArchivalResource: 9 boxes + 1 ledger.

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Marble, Arthur DeMerrick. Pemberton Mill disaster collection, 1860-1901.

Title: Pemberton Mill disaster collection, 1860-1901.

Volume entitled History of the Lawrence Calamity, with bookplate of Arthur D. Marble, city engineer, concerning the original collapse and subsequent fire of Pemberton Mill (Pemberton Manufacturing Company) in Lawrence, Mass., on Jan. 10, 1860 during which many people died and a later fire at the rebuilt mill on Apr. 10, 1886.

ArchivalResource: .2 linear ft.

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Moulton, Oliver H. [Papers].

Title: [Papers]. 1856-1939.

Contains two travel diaries of Alice Moulton Bartlett from a trip to England and Europe in 1890. The diaries were gifts to her parents and to her husband and contain many of her watercolor illustrations. Also contains travel correspondence from England and Europe, 1890 and 1895, mainly from Oliver Moulton to his family, especially to son-in-law Austin Chadwick. General correspondence, 1856-1939, of Oliver Moulton and other family members contains comments about cotton manufacturing, mills in Lawrence and Lowell, the finances of the Pemberton Mill, Moulton's career at Hamilton Manufacturing, and various personal business ventures. Also contains family photographs, newspaper clippings, including obituaries and testimonials to Oliver Moulton and information about Lowell, Mass., and a diploma, 1854, of Miranda Jordan from the Maine Female Seminary, Gorham, Me.

ArchivalResource: 1 ft. (5 boxes)

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Massachusetts. Division of State Police. Criminal Information Section. [Records].

Title: [Records]. 1920-1923.

Includes correspondence, memos and records of investigations of labor activity by the Federated Textile Unions of America, the Textile Workers' Union and the United Textile Workers in textile mills in Mass. Included are reports about the Arlington Mill, Duck Mill, Everett Mill, Pemberton Mill and Upper Pacific Mill in Lawrence; the Methuen Mill, in Methuen; the Hamilton Mill and the Bay State Cotton Mill in Lowell; the Ludlow Manufacturing Co. in Ludlow; the Crown Mill in Pawtucket, R.I. and South Attleboro, Mass.; Union Wadding Co. in Pawtucket and South Attleboro; the Otis Co. in Ware, etc. Information on the ethnicity, languages and political organizations of the workers is included. Also contains general reports on the cotton industry and labor activity in New Bedford, Fall River and Taunton, Mass., as well as records about the Rockport Granite Co., Rockport and Gloucester, Mass., and a strike at the J.H. Winchell Shoe Factory, Haverhill, Mass. Contains a letter, 1922, to the Commissioner of Public Safety from D. Chauncey Brewer, president of the North American Civic League for Immigrants in Boston about activity in the mills in Nashua, N.H. and a meeting about the Sacco-Vanzetti case attended by a League special agent. Includes pamphlets and newspaper clippings from local and ethnic newspapers, the Industrial Workers of the World, the Communist Party (including the General Council of the United Labor Bodies), anarchist organizations, etc. Contains a list of "Communist and anarchist newspapers" and the following left-wing publications, 1921-1923, collected by the department: The Metropolis: A Magazine of the City of New York, New York; Soviet Russia: Official Organ of the Russian Soviet Government Bureau, New York; The Federated Press Bulletin: Official Organ of the Federated Press League, Chicago; The Leader, Lawrence, Mass.; Reconstruction: An Organ to Promote Political and Economic Reconstruction in Central and Eastern Europe [in English], Vienna; Anzeiger und Post, Lawrence, Mass.; The Worker, New York; Americanskye Izvestia, New York; The Workers' Challenge, New York; L'Agitazione: Organo del Comitato de Difesa pro Sacco e Vanzetti, Boston.

ArchivalResource: 1 box ; 27 x 6 x 32 cm.

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