Davis & Furber Machine Co. [Business records].
Title:
[Business records]. 1833-1980.
Contains extensive machinery orders, 1841-1935, identifying type of machine and mill for which it was built. Credit files, 1922-1964, give customers' accounts and credit practices; payrolls, 1849-1887, list workers and their rates of pay. Includes partnership agreements, 1838, 1841-1861; deeds and lists of legal expenses, 1869, 1876-1880; executive correspondence, 1833-1897; tariff files, 1890-1962, of S.F. Rockwell, with letters, briefs, clippings, reports, plus minutes of the Carded Woolen Assoc. conference, 1909; Rockwell's history files, 1870-1960, with letters, reports, clippings, etc., on card clothing, physical plant, construction of a dam, machine shop, foundry, and card building; and his information files, 1922-1960, about synthetic fibers, machinery exhibitions, and southern mill sites. Also has purchasing records, 1833-1940; advertising materials, 1880-1911, 1945-1975; labor files, with payroll lists and analyses, rent books, etc. Production records include machinery and card clothing production, 1866-1903; foundry journals and daybooks, 1874-1891; records concerning carding machinery, mules and miscellaneous machinery; and ledgers, 1890-1903, and a daybook, 1890-1892, of the American Card Clothing Co.
ArchivalResource:
290 ft.
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