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Arthur D. Larson and Katharine Larson Kreiser Collection of Textile Related Graphics

Collection Number: 6521 G

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library

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Container		Description	Date
Box 1	Folder 1	Cotton Mills, Dublin, and a Song
Box 1	Folder 1	Item 1: Fire at Randolph Mill : Respectfully dedicated in deep sympathy to the friends of the unlucky victims. /	1881
		Format: Graphics
		Atkins, Edward. Fire at Randolph Mill: respectfully dedicated in deep sympathy to the friends of the unlucky victims. Composed and sung by Edward Atkins. Philadelphia, Pa.: A.W. Auner, Song Publisher & Printer.
Box 1	Folder 1	Item 2: Dublin - view of the cloth market on the Liffey.
		Format: Graphics
		Woodcut, n.d. Print probably removed from book. View of the Liffey River in Dublin, Ireland, with several boats on the river and a bridge in the distance; buildings on the left side of the river, most with smoking chimneys. 17.5 x 13 cm.
Box 1	Folder 1	Item 3: Cotton Mills, Etc., at Lawrence	1851
		Format: Graphics
		Wood engraving, removed from Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion. View shows mills in left background; falls on river in foreground. Copy C. 28 x 19 cm.
Box 2	Folder 1	Sample sheets
Box 2	Folder 1	Item 1: Oriental Cretonnes
		Format: Graphics
		Sample card (no fabric), ca. 1890.
Box 2	Folder 2	Sample sheets
Box 2	Folder 2	Item 1: Oriental Cretonnes
		Format: Graphics
		Sample card (no fabric), ca. 1890.
Box 2	Folder 3	NRA U.S. Code: cotton textile industry	1934
Box 2	Folder 3	Item 1: NRA U.S. code: cotton textile industry, 1934	1934
		Format: Graphics
		National Recovery Administration. Registration no. 38-5. Property of the United States government - not for sale. Image shows blue eagle with gear and lightning bolts in claws. 28 x 35.5 cm.
Box 2	Folder 4	Design for a mill
Box 2	Folder 4	Item 1: Design For A Mill/ On The Slow Burning Principle	1879
		Format: Graphics
		Boston Manufacturers Mutual Fire Insurance Co., from American Architect and Building News, Oct. 25, 1879. View shows main mill, elevations and ground plan.
Box 2	Folder 5	Globe Print Works
Box 2	Folder 5	Item 1: The Freeman Manufacturing Co's works, North Adams, Mass.	1876
		Format: Graphics
		Lithograph. Four vignettes: Print Works (two tall smoking chimneys, several short ones); Spinning Mill (man with two horses and wagon in foreground, smoking chimney); Eagle Mill (smoking chimney, man with loaded wagon leaving complex in foreground); and Stone Mill (two gentlemen in top hats walking in front of building). "R.G.H. Cr." in lower left corner of Spinning Mill and Stone Mill; "H" in lower right corner of Print Works and lower left corner of Eagle Mill. 40 x 32.5 cm. Copy B.
Box 2	Folder 6	Fancy Looms.
Box 2	Folder 6	Item 1: Fancy loom.
		Format: Graphics
		L.J. Knowles & Brother, Worcester, Mass. J.H. Buffords Sons Lith. Boston. Hand colored lithograph, ca. 1873-1880. Front view of loom. 38 x 30.5 cm.
Box 2	Folder 7	Robeson Prints
Box 2	Folder 7	Item 1: Globe Print Works Near Fall River, Mass.
		Format: Graphics
		Josiah Chapin, William C. Chapin, Geo. W. Chapin, Proprietors, Printers of Calicos, Lawns, Barege de Laines, and the Mousselins de Laines of the Atlantic De Laine Company. Lith. of Smith & Jenkins, New York. Printed by F. Michelin, 225 Fulton St. N.Y. Lithograph, ca. 1850s. Pastoral scene showing mill buildings and surrounding houses with people, horses and wagons, and sheep grazing in the foreground. Written in pencil on the reverse of the print: "Tiverton Calico Printing Factory." 61 x 46 cm.
Box 2	Folder 8	Mill Villages, can be beautiful
Box 2	Folder 8	Item 1: Mill villages can be beautiful.
		Format: Graphics
		Zuckerman, Michael. Lists dates for Blackstone River tours, South County [R.I.] tours, Pawtuxet River tours, and Branch River tours offered by Brown University History Dept. professor. Providence, R.I.: Michael Zuckerman, ca. 1975. 28 x 43.5 cm.
Box 2	Folder 9	The Freeman Manufacturing
Box 2	Folder 9	Item 1: Robeson prints.
		Format: Graphics
		Engraving, after 1854. View of Fall River, Mass. with numerous smoking chimneys; harbor in the foreground with steamer Metropolis and sailing ships. Inserts in the four corners depict the seal of Massachusetts, the seal of the city of Fall River, Fall River Print Works, and Andrew Robeson [company]. [Possibly print was part of sample folder used for showing swatches.] 38 x 22.5 cm.
Box 3	Folder 1	Newspapers
Box 3	Folder 1	Item 1: Providence Daily Journal and Evening bulletin	1890
		Format: News clipping
		The Slater Cotton Centennial (special issue from the Providence Daily Journal and Evening Bulletin).
Box 3	Folder 1	Item 2: Fragment from Providence Journal	1837
		Format: News clipping
		Fragment from Providence Journal, June 28, 1837 (see notices from Blackstone Canal Co. and Rhode Island Cloth Hall Co.).
Box 3	Folder 1	Item 3: Unidentified RI newspaper clipping	1836
		Format: News clipping
		Unidentified RI newspaper clipping with notices for sale of lambs wool and cotton; also mention of Lyman Manufacturing Co. and "cotton whipper." (Probably Providence Journal).
Box 3	Folder 1	Item 4: Fragment from Providence Journal	1878
		Format: News clipping
		Fragment from Providence Journal, Nov. 9, 1878. Various notices: mills, machinery, spindles, manufacturing interests..
Box 3	Folder 1	Item 5: Commercial notices re wool market
		Format: News clipping
		Clipping from unidentified newspaper ca. 1836 with various commercial notices re wool market.
Box 3	Folder 1	Item 6: The Rhode Island Pendulum	1861
		Format: News clipping
		The Rhode Island Pendulum (Sept. 13, 1861). Various commercial notices for carpeting, hats, carriage robes.
Box 3	Folder 1	Item 7: Unidentified RI newspaper,
		Format: News clipping
		Unidentified RI newspaper, ca 1830. Various commercial notices (prints, lawns, etc.).