[Papers]. 1860-1983.

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[Papers]. 1860-1983.

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The research subject files are arranged alphabetically and include the American Woolen Co., Shawsheen Village, and the Wood family. The research materials include notes for an article about William Wood, From Son of Portuguese Immigrants to Yankee Capitalist, published in the Journal of the American Portuguese Society; school records of William Wood, 1864-1871; an unpublished autobiography, 1893-1957, by Cornelius A. Wood, son of William Wood; interviews with James Dalrymple, Wood's personal bookkeeper and office manager, with Raymond Hoyer, an employee of the Shawsheen Village Garage, and with Scott Steward, Wood's great-grand-nephew; and other materials. Grant projects include one entitled, What to Save in Greater Lawrence, 1975-1980, with applications, correspondence, drafts for a talk, and newspaper articles; and forms and correspondence, 1979-1980, for a faculty development grant. Also includes drafts, galleys, illustrations and notes for Mills, Mansions and Mergers, with correspondence, reviews, and promotional materials. Professional correspondence dates from 1982-1983, and includes letters from Thomas W. Leavitt, director of the Merrimack Valley Textile Museum. A small amount of personal correspondence dates from 1976, 1981, and 1983.

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American Textile History Museum Library

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American Textile History Museum Library

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Wood family.

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Roddy, Edward G., 1921-1985.

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Roddy, a graduate of Harvard College and Georgetown University, was a professor of history at Merrimack College in North Andover, Mass. His areas of interest were immigrants, labor, social history, and biography as history. In 1975, Mr. Roddy worked with the Merrimack Valley Textile Museum (later the American Textile History Museum) on a project to study the Shawsheen Village in Andover, Mass., a corporate community built ca. 1918 by William M. Wood, president of the American Woolen Company loca...

Merrimack College

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Merrimack Valley Textile Museum

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Wood, Cornelius A. (Cornelius Ayer), 1920-2005

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Wood, William M.

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Leavitt, Thomas W., 1935-

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Director of the Pasadena Art Museum 1957-63. From the description of Pasadena Art Museum : Thomas W. Leavitt : oral history transcript / by Joanne L. Ratner, Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles, 1990. (Pasadena/Glendale Digital Library). WorldCat record id: 86117948 ...

Dalrymple, James, fl. 1714

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Hoyer, Raymond.

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Museum of American Textile History

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A project of the Museum of American Textile History (now the American Textile History Museum, Lowell, Mass.), the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor Commission, and the Massachusetts Dept. of Environmental Management (DEM), in which the Museum contracted to provide an inventory of machinery and other artifacts at the D.T. Dudley & Son Co. The company, located in Wilkinsonville (Sutton), Mass., made wooden shuttles and shuttle irons for power looms. The information was to be u...

Steward, Scott C. (Scott Campbell), 1963-

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American Woolen Company

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The company was located in Lawrence, Mass. From the description of [Business records]. 1915-1916. (American Textile History Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 50739060 Wood Mill was built in 1906 as part of the American Woolen Co., a worsted manufacturer. From the description of [Business records]. 1936-1955. (American Textile History Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 48668910 The company was located in Lawrence, Mass., with offices in New York City...