[Correspondence]. 1828-1853.

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[Correspondence]. 1828-1853.

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The collection includes letters from dry goods commission agents, cotton brokers and merchants from Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Hartford, New Orleans and Mobile. They cover orders, prices, complaints, descriptions of market conditions, especially in the West, and financial credit arrangements. Statements of accounts current and sketches of sales are included for many firms. There are numerous invoices and information about day-to-day aspects of running the mills. Much of the correspondence deals with the production of print cloth. Correspondence is addressed to Borden & Bowen, Holder Borden, C.H. Dabney, Wilber Kelly, George Kilburn, William Cook, R.H. Ives, and Goddard Brothers, among others.

7 boxes (2035 items) ; 27 x 13 x 32 cm. or smaller.

American Textile History Museum Library

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American Textile History Museum Library

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Kelly, Wilber, 1781-1846

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Borden and Bowen

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Ives, R. H.

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Lonsdale Company

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The Lonsdale Water Power Company, an unchartered corporation founded by the firm of Brown & Ives with Edward Carrington and others, was organized in 1825. The company proceeded to buy up estates and water rights along the Blackstone River in the towns of Smithfield and Cumberland, Rhode Island. In 1831, the company began construction of a mill - later called Lonsdale Mill No. 1- and organized around that mill the village they named Lonsdale in Smithfield. As well wi...

Borden, Holder, 1799-1837

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Cook, William R., Jr.

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Brewery worker and member of CIO Local 58. Active in the Wayne County CIO Council. From the description of William Cook papers, 1957. (Wayne State University, Archives of Labor & Urban). WorldCat record id: 32320951 Epithet: Puisne Judge of Common Pleas British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000445.0x0000d0 Master farrier; worked starting gate and raced horses at Rillito Race Track. ...

Brown & Ives

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Providence, R.I. company. From the description of Letter, 1803. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 38247198 The commercial firm of Brown & Ives, Providence, R.I., was involved in the founding of each of the companies represented in this collection: the Blackstone Manufacturing Company, Mendon, Mass.; the Lonsdale Company, Smithfield, R.I.; and the Hope Company, Scituate, R.I. The Blackstone Manufacturing Company was established in 1808 as a joint stock compan...

Goddard Brothers

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Hope Company

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Kilburn, George.

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Dabney, C. H.,

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Hope Cotton Manufacturing Company.

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Blackstone Manufacturing Company

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Wheaton, Seth, 1776-

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