[Business records]. 1855-1917.

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[Business records]. 1855-1917.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48954079

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.

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American Textile History Museum Library

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American Textile History Museum Library

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Cocheco Manufacturing Company

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Cotton manufacturer, Dover, N.H. Established as Dover Cotton Factory, name changed to Dover Manufacturing Company in 1823. Reorganized in 1827 as Cocheco Manufacturing Company. Purchased by Pacific Mills in 1909. From the description of Records, 1821-1879 (inclusive). (Harvard Business School). WorldCat record id: 229894515 The Cocheco Manufacturing Company produced printed textiles in Dover, N.H. The company evolved from the Dover Cotton Factory, which was started in 1812. ...

Hamilton Manufacturing Co. (Two Rivers, Wis.)

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Lawrence & Company.

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Pacific Mills. Cocheco Division.

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Stockton, Howard.

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Radcliffe Printing Company.

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Anderton, Washington.

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Cocheco Print Works.

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Dover Manufacturing Company (Dover, N.H.)

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The first textile mill in Dover, N.H., the Dover Cotton Factory was chartered in 1812 at a site on the Cocheco River and was known as the "upper factory" [Mill No. 1]. Further expansion occurred at the lower falls in the early 1820's and again in 1825 when a calico printing works was included. In 1823-1824 the mills were renamed the Dover Manufacturing Co. In 1827 the print works incorporated as a separate enterprise and became the Cocheco Manufacturing Co., which purchased the debt of the D.M.C...