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Wamsutta Mills. Wamsutta Mills minutes, 1874-1901.

Title: Wamsutta Mills minutes, 1874-1901.

Volume contains the minutes of the Board of Director's meetings and the annual meetings of the stockholders (1874-1901). Board meetings were held on a monthly basis from 1874 to 1892 and afterward on a quarterly basis. Minutes reflect the business activities of the Wamsutta Mills as well as the management and expansion of the mills. Business activities include reports of amounts of cloth produced and sold annually, awarding of sales areas to representatives in various markets, setting of salaries for workers, as well as increase in capital stock and the setting of dividends. Improvement to the mills included additional number of spindles and looms and expansion was documented in the construction of new mills. Sales of property including land, houses, and other buildings were also recorded.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

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Baldwin, Billy. Billy Baldwin scrapbooks, 1976.

Title: Billy Baldwin scrapbooks, 1976.

Scrapbook contains black and white photographs and newspaper clippings from 1976 and focuses solely on events pertaining to the introduction of a line of sheets that Baldwin designed for Wamsutta. Clippings consist of advertisements for the sheets and interviews with Baldwin. Photographs document two receptions held to celebrate the new line. Baldwin and Julian Tomchin, chief of design at Wamsutta are pictured.

ArchivalResource: .25 linear in.

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Portrait Photograph Collection, 1930-1940

Title: Portrait Photograph Collection, 1930-1940

This collection includes photographic prints of copies of paintings, prints, and engravins and portraits of businessmen and industrialists

ArchivalResource: 12 linear ft. (12 boxes)

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Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company. Business correspondence and sample lithographs, 1872-1883

Title: Business correspondence and sample lithographs, 1872-1883

Includes business letters to the Forbes Co. from various cloth mills and other businesses, including the Fall River Bleachery (1876), Wamsutta Mills (1872-1876), Seavey, Foster & Bowman silk manufacturers (1876), Johnson Manufacturing Co. (1877), Hamilton Woolen Company's Print Works (1876), Mechanics Mills (1877), Third National Bank (1877), Fitchburg Steam Engine Co. (1876), and the Pittsfield Tack Co. (1876). Letters are requesting labels, business cards, and advertisments. Many samples of these labels and cards are included in this collection, including rough proofs identifying the plates that the designs are on. Letter from a New York lithographer, L.W. Kipp, requesting employment, along with samples of his work. A sample of Forbes Co. stationary from 1883

ArchivalResource: 67 items ; 28 cm. or smaller

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/85213131 View

W.H. Forbes & Company. [Correspondence].

Title: [Correspondence]. 1873.

Correspondence concerning printing labels for various textile mills. Correspondents include Atlantic Delaine Co., Providence, R.I.; Fall River Bleachery, Fall River, Mass.; Utica Steam Cotton Mills, Utica, N.Y.; L.W. Faulkner & Son, Lowell, Mass.; Massachusetts Cotton Mills, Lowell, Mass.; Geo. H. Gilbert Mfg. Co., another printer, Ware, Mass.; Lewiston Mills, Lewiston, Me.; Wamsutta Mills, New Bedford, Mass.; Montrose Cottons and S. Slater & Sons, both of New York; Cocheco Manufacturing Company Print Works, Dover, N.H.; and Peake, Opdycke & Co., New York, an importer and jobber of dry goods. Includes some sample labels.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49937788 View

American Felt Company. Trade catalogs of textiles, 1895-1927.

Title: Trade catalogs of textiles, 1895-1927.

Trade catalogs, company reports and histories of textiles, waterproofing of fabrics, felt, cotton, and other ephemera relating to textiles.

ArchivalResource: 24 items (1 box) : ill.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122583076 View

Bennett family. Papers, 1765-1908.

Title: Papers, 1765-1908.

Business correspondence, legal documents, bills and receipts, and ships' papers (packets, merchant ships, and passenger ships), of Thomas Bennett (ca. 1790-1865), ship captain; business and personal correspondence, legal documents, financial records, notebooks containing labor accounts, customer orders, and production records, and other papers, of his son, Thomas, Jr., (1820-1898), superintendent of Wamsutta Mills, New Bedford cotton textile manufacturer; and correspondence, wills, and legal and estate papers of other family members including Robert (1746-1818), John (fl. 1772-1773), James (fl. 1800-1804), and daughter and brother of Thomas, Jr., Clara (1853-1929) and Robert (1829-1905) Bennett.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28412769 View

Greenleaf and Hubbard business records, (inclusive), 1850-1860

Title: Greenleaf and Hubbardbusiness records, (inclusive) 1850-1860

Records of a cotton commission firm of New Orleans, mainly correspondence with treasurers of New England cotton mills.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear ft. (19 volumes, 4 boxes, 3 cartons)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/bak00069/catalog View

Greenleaf and Hubbard. Greenleaf and Hubbard business records, 1850-1860 (inclusive).

Title: Greenleaf and Hubbard business records, 1850-1860 (inclusive).

Records of a cotton commission firm of New Orleans, mainly correspondence with treasurers of New England cotton mills. Also includes bankbooks, receipt books for cotton purchased, and bills of lading.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear ft. (19 v., 4 boxes, 3 cartons)

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Pierce, Andrew Granville, 1829-1903. Andrew Granville Pierce papers, 1853-1884.

Title: Andrew Granville Pierce papers, 1853-1884.

Primarily correspondence for various business activities in which Andrew G. Pierce was engaged, especially while in the employment of Edward L. Baker, an oil and candle manufacturer, of New Bedford, Mass., and in 1855, when Pierce succeeded Baker as treasurer of Wamsutta Mills; together with a letter (1853) from his brother, Benjamin Franklin Pierce, logkeeper of the whaler bark Alice Frazier, relating to his experience in the Arctic; accounts (1853-1857) between Edward L. Baker and Andrew G. Pierce; and a bill of lading (1854) for goods shipped to California.

ArchivalResource: 11 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/74985997 View