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Cocheco Manufacturing Company. [Business records].

Title: [Business records]. 1855-1917.

Records include correspondence, 1863-1890, mostly of Washington Anderton. Correspondents include Lawrence & Co., Hamilton Manufacturing Co. Print Works, and Howard Stockton, treasurer of Cocheco. Also contains correspondence, memos, etc., 1875-1876, from Radcliffe Printing Co.; dye notebooks and recipes, some with cloth samples (swatches); petition by sketchmakers and engravers concerning hours of labor, ca. 1886-1887; labor contracts for color mixers, 1866-1878; memos, family snapshots, postcards of Dover, plant drawings, layouts and construction estimates; drawings, photographs and advertising material for mill accessories and machinery, particularly for finishing processes (printing and calendering machinery, dye kettles, etc.), and insurance and underwriters' reports, particularly for the fire of 1887.

ArchivalResource: 3 ft.

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Proprietors of the Locks and Canals on Merrimack River. Records, 1792-1947 (inclusive), 1825-1900 (bulk).

Title: Records, 1792-1947 (inclusive), 1825-1900 (bulk).

Includes an extensive bound series of incoming letters and papers, a series of letter books, general accounting records, and payrolls. There are records for construction of canals, for collection of tolls, for kyanizing of lumber, and for a grist mill. There are papers of James B. Francis, engineer and agent, Uriah A. Boyden, hydraulic engineer, Col. James Francis, William Badger, Hiram F. Mills, Patrick T. Jackson, Kirk Boott, and George W. Whistler. Companies represented by material include Merrimack Manufacturing Company, Bigelow-Hartford Manufacturing Company, Ipswich Mills, Middlesex Company, Nashua Manufacturing Company, Saco-Lowell Shops, Pepperell Manufacturing Company, and Tremont and Suffolk Mills.

ArchivalResource: 13 linear ft. (355 v., 2 cases, 1 box)

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Moulton, Oliver H. [Papers].

Title: [Papers]. 1875, 1907, 1959.

Includes letters patent from the U.S. Patent Office, Nov. 2, 1875, to Oliver H. Moulton, Lowell, Mass.; Laura S. Damon, Albany, Vt., administratrix of Alexander M. Damon, deceased; and Israel L.G. Rice, Cambridge, Mass., for improvement in warpers. Also includes letter dated Sept. 23, 1907, from Thomas Walsh, Lowell, Mass., to Moulton's daughter, Alice Moulton Bartlett; Walsh was an associate of Oliver Moulton at the Hamilton Manufacturing Co. and writes a sympathy letter at the time of Moulton's death. A second letter, dated Sept. 4, 1959, from May Moulton Chadwick, Naples, N.Y., is addressed to her niece, Harriett Moulton Bartlett, Cambridge, Mass., and includes information about the Hamilton Print Works.

ArchivalResource: 3 items ; 30 cm. or smaller.

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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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Layer, Robert George, 1921-. Papers, 1951 (inclusive).

Title: Papers, 1951 (inclusive).

Consists of handwritten charts of financial data abstracted from the records of five cotton textile manufacturers held at Baker Library. The five firms were Nashua Manufacturing Company (1827-1914), Boston Manufacturing Company (1825-1865), Lawrence Manufacturing Company (1833-1891), Hamilton Manufacturing Company (1826-1886), Dwight Manufacturing Company (1865-1914), and Lyman Mills (1886-1914). The data includes statistics on company assets and liabilities, income and expense accounts, and payroll expenses. The payroll summaries include detailed information on the companies' female employees.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear ft. (2 boxes)

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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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