Records, 1863-1952.

ArchivalResource

Island Woolen Company (Baraboo, Wis.). Records, 1863-1952.

Records, 1863-1952.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173700089

Records, 1963-1952, of the Island Woolen Company, a firm founded in 1863 and dissolved in 1949. The records provide information on fabric design, production processes and techniques, administration of the mill, day-to-day operations, labor issues, physical plant development, sales and marketing methods, and financial status. More specifically the collection provides information on business conditions in the Panic of 1873, World War I and World War II government production, the company baseball team in the 1920s, attempted market expansion to South Africa in the 1940s, and production of suiting fabric, blankets, and automobile fabric. Also included are some personal materials of company executives concerning state and local Republican politics, various issues in Baraboo, and material relating to Frank Lloyd Wright. The processed portion of this collection is summarized above, dates 1863-1952, and is described in the register. Additional paper and photographic accessions date 1895-1946 and are described below.

62.6 c.f. (34 archives boxes, 31 record center cartons, 5 half record center cartons, 3 index boxes, and 18 flat boxes) and41 reels of microfilm (35mm); plusadditions of 10.0 c.f. and16 photographs.

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project