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Museum of American Textile History. Institutional file.

Title: Institutional file.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

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Wills, Arline K. [Letter] 1981 July 9, Lynnfield, Mass. : [to] Helena E. Wright, Museum of American Textile History, North Andover, Mass. / [from] Arline K. Wills.

Title: [Letter] 1981 July 9, Lynnfield, Mass. : [to] Helena E. Wright, Museum of American Textile History, North Andover, Mass. / [from] Arline K. Wills.

Letter gives a history of the Salisbury Mills, a woolen manufacturer in Amesbury, Mass., as well as information about the Wills family; John Wills, Jr. (1784-1835) was one of the incorporators of the company. The letter notes that the information comes from an unpublished manuscript of Wills family genealogy.

ArchivalResource: 3 leaves ; 28 cm.

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Roddy, Edward G., 1921-1985. [Papers].

Title: [Papers]. 1860-1983.

The research subject files are arranged alphabetically and include the American Woolen Co., Shawsheen Village, and the Wood family. The research materials include notes for an article about William Wood, From Son of Portuguese Immigrants to Yankee Capitalist, published in the Journal of the American Portuguese Society; school records of William Wood, 1864-1871; an unpublished autobiography, 1893-1957, by Cornelius A. Wood, son of William Wood; interviews with James Dalrymple, Wood's personal bookkeeper and office manager, with Raymond Hoyer, an employee of the Shawsheen Village Garage, and with Scott Steward, Wood's great-grand-nephew; and other materials. Grant projects include one entitled, What to Save in Greater Lawrence, 1975-1980, with applications, correspondence, drafts for a talk, and newspaper articles; and forms and correspondence, 1979-1980, for a faculty development grant. Also includes drafts, galleys, illustrations and notes for Mills, Mansions and Mergers, with correspondence, reviews, and promotional materials. Professional correspondence dates from 1982-1983, and includes letters from Thomas W. Leavitt, director of the Merrimack Valley Textile Museum. A small amount of personal correspondence dates from 1976, 1981, and 1983.

ArchivalResource: 6 ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50425397 View

Museum of American Textile History. [Dudley Shuttle project research material].

Title: [Dudley Shuttle project research material]. 1988-1989.

Contains papers on planning for the inventory project, including the agreement, 1989, among the various parties involved; invoices, contracts, notes on the inventory of machinery, etc. Also includes photocopies of information about the history of the company.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes ; 27 x 13 x 32 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51561310 View