Knox Woolen Company employees, ca. 1890

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Knox Woolen Company employees, ca. 1890

Sepia photograph on cardboard matting of employees of the Knox Woolen Company in Camden, Me. A list of names was attached to the photo but it is not clear whether the names correspond to people in the photograph.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8086929

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Babb, Theresa Parker, 1868-1948

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Photographer of Camden, Me.; wife of Charles Wilkes Babb (1863-1956), superintendent of the Knox Woolen Company. From the description of Theresa Babb's sitting room, 1899 May. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 721323688 From the description of Lunch under the trees, 1898 Aug. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 726157570 From the description of Ogier Point while camping with Susie, 1900 July. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 722808679 From the description of Chil...

Knox Woolen Company (Camden, Me.)

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The Knox Woolen Company began operation about the time of the Civil War and made woolen felts used in the manufacture of paper. In its heyday the mill made use of Camden's abundant resources: water power for the mill, wool from surrounding farms as well as wool shipped from around the world, and shipping by water to the paper mills upriver on the Penobscot. By 1905, the company employed 150 men and women with an annual payroll of $70,000. The year 1912 saw a three-story, 70-foot ext...