Records, 1896-1971.

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Records, 1896-1971.

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Itasca Cotton Manufacturing Company records include correspondence, blueprints, cloth samples and data cards, employee records, financial and legal materials, printed materials, papers of Sidney J. Files and Ella Pierce. Weavers Guild materials include correspondence, advertising material, cloth samples and data cards, employee records, general files, inventory, legal materials, financial materials, literary productions, mail order customer cards, photographs, printed materials branch store records and job orders pertaining to the development and decline of a company.

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Texas Tech University Libraries, Academic Library

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Texas Tech University Libraries, Academic Library

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Pierce, Ella

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Itasca Cotton Manufacturing Company and Weavers Guild.

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Founded to purchase raw cotton to spin and weave into textiles and to act as sales agent through mail orders and retail sales. The mill in Itasca, Texas, run by the Files family, began operations in 1901 producing cotton textile primarily for draperies and upholstery. The Weavers Guild, began in the mid 1930s, operated retail stores in large cities throughout Texas, specializing in custom-made draperies. During its peak years the mill had over 350 employees. The mill closed in 1962, while the gu...

Itasca Weavers Guild.

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Itasca Cotton Manufacturing Company.

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Files, Sidney J., 1890-1969.

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Born 1890. Grandson of the founder of the Files Valley community in Hill County, Texas. Associated with Itasca Cotton Manufacturing Company for nearly 50 years, serving as its president when the mill closed in 1962. Died 1969. From the description of Papers, 1899-1970. (Texas Tech University). WorldCat record id: 26019011 ...