[Business records]. 1831-1935.

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[Business records]. 1831-1935.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49311026

The bulk of the records covers the period from 1831 to 1903. There is extensive incoming correspondence, 1829-1883; outgoing general correspondence, 1847-1850, 1889-1903; machinery correspondence, 1831-1840; correspondence from Wyman and Putnam, a Bangor, Me., merchant, 1839-1843; and from N.S. Carruth, a dyestuff supplier in Boston, 1832-1843. There is also correspondence, 1831-1843, from commission merchants; correspondence with Paschal Abbott, 1832-1854; and correspondence with trade associations, 1907-1917. Also contains detailed financial records, including inventories of machinery, starting in 1831; ledgers, 1831-1897; cashbooks and daybooks, 1831-1903; purchasing records, including wool books, 1831-1898; sales records, 1866-1903; time books, 1832-1901; piece rate payrolls, 1862-1901; and production records, 1862-1935. Also includes records of a sawmill, 1849-1891; miscellaneous records of Joshua Abbott, 1824-1833; and Job Abbott, 1890-1893. Also includes records, 1862-1875, of Barron, Springall & Co., Dexter, Me. George Abbott may have been a partner in this firm, which supplied the company with dyestuffs and wool and sold the finished cloth.

43 ft. (40 boxes + 160 v.)

American Textile History Museum Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7605172

American Textile History Museum Library

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Abbott, Joshua Harris

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Amos Abbott Company.

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The company, a woolen manufacturer in Dexter, Maine, was a family-owned business from its beginnings in the 1820's until its closing in 1975. It was first a carding and fulling operation and was known successively as Abbott, Eaton & Co.; Abbott, Cutler & Co.; and Abbott, Sawyer & Co. In 1831, it became Amos Abbott Co.; it was incorporated in 1899. From the description of [Business records]. 1831-1935. (American Textile History Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 49311026...

Abbott, George, 1887-1995

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American theatrical producer and director. From the description of George Abbott letter to William Work, 1953 Mar. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 502306264 ...

Abbott, Cutler & Company.

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Abbott, Job.

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Abbott, Sawyer & Company.

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Abbott, Paschal, 1788-1859

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Abbott, Eaton & Company.

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Wyman and Putnam.

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N.S. Carruth.

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Barron, Springall & Company.

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