Beattie Manufacturing Photographs, 1950-1975
Collection Number: 6534 P
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Beattie Manufacturing Photographs, 1950-1975
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
6534 P
Abstract:
Photographs of textile machinery, textile workers, and carpet samples.
Creator:
Beattie Manufacturing
Quanitities:
0.5 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
Consists of photographs of machinery, including the process of getting a ring spinning
frame into the mill building. There are also photographs of mill workers operating
the machinery, raw wool being delivered, and photographs of carpet samples.
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archivist for access to these materials.
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and
Procedures for Document Use.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Beattie Manufacturing Photographs #6534 P. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation
and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Related Collections: 6534: Beattie Manufacturing Records
Names:
Beattie, John A.
Beattie, Robert L. (1811-1882)
Beattie Manufacturing Company.
Little Falls Carpet Mills (Little Falls, N.J.)
Robert Beattie and Sons.
Robert Beattie Company.
Subjects:
Blankets
Business records
Carpets
Duck (Textile)
Flame throwers
Industries
Rug and carpet industry
Spanish-American War, 1898
Spinning machinery
Spinning
Textile industry
Textile machinery
Twisting machines
Wages
Winding machines
World War, 1914-1918
World War, 1939-1945
United States
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Exterior View of the Mill
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Scope and Contents
1 color image, 8x10.
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Raw Material
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Scope and Contents
3 color images, 8x10
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| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Ring Spinning Frame Delivery
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Scope and Contents
5 black and white images, 8x10
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| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Item 1: Machinery being moved into mill
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Format: black and white photograph
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Scope and Contents
Gelatin silver print, [195-?]. Image depicts some machinery (probably a ring spinning
frame) being moved into a brick mill through a loading dock door. The truck in the
foreground has a Virginia license plate. Man walks away in the left foreground. See
Item 2 in this folder for a better image of the machinery. The Beattie Manufacturing
Company made carpets. 25.75 x 20.25 cm.
Format: black and white photograph.
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| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Item 2: Ring spinning frame being moved into mill
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Format: black and white photograph
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Scope and Contents
Gelatin silver print, [195-?]. Image depicts a ring spinning frame being moved into
a brick mill through a loading dock door. Two workmen are visible. The Beattie Manufacturing
Company made carpets. 25.75 x 20.5 cm. See Item 5 in this folder for a view of the
entire frame once it was moved indoors.
Format: black and white photograph.
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| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Item 3: Ring spinning frame on truck
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Format: black and white photograph
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Scope and Contents
Gelatin silver print, [195-?]. Image depicts a ring spinning frame on a truck owned
by D. Graham, Phila., Pa. The frame was being moved into the Beattie Manufacturing
Company of Little Falls, N.J. The Beattie Manufacturing Company made carpets. 25.75
x 20.5 cm.
Format: black and white photograph.
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| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Item 4: Ring spinning frame on truck
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Format: black and white photograph
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Scope and Contents
Gelatin silver print, [195-?]. Image depicts a ring spinning frame on a truck owned
by D. Graham, Phila., Pa. The frame was being moved into the Beattie Manufacturing
Company of Little Falls, N.J. The Beattie Manufacturing Company made carpets. Copy
B. 25.75 x 20.5 cm.
Format: black and white photograph.
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| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Item 5: Ring spinning frame
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Format: black and white photograph
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Scope and Contents
Gelatin silver print, [195-?]. Image depicts a ring spinning frame after it had been
moved from a truck to an indoor location at Beattie Manufacturing. The Beattie Manufacturing
Company made carpets. 25.75 x 20.5 cm. See Item 2 in this folder for an image of the
machinery being moved into the building.
Format: black and white photograph.
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| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Machinery
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Format: black and white photograph
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Scope and Contents
3 color images, 8x10; 2 black and white images, 8x10
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| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Item 1: Woolen condenser card
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Format: black and white photograph
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Scope and Contents
Gelatin silver print, [1945-50?]. Image depicts a woolen condenser card, which is
a wool card with a tape condenser on the delivery end. The tape condenser splits the
doffer web into numerous narrow strips, condenses them into ropings and winds them
on a jack spool. The Beattie Manufacturing Company made carpets. 25.5 x 20.75 cm.
Format: black and white photograph.
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| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Item 2: Twister
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Format: black and white photograph
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Scope and Contents
Gelatin silver print, [195-?]. Image depicts a twister in the interior of Beattie
Manufacturing. A twister twists together two or more separate ends, making either
a ply yarn or a cable yarn. The Beattie Manufacturing Company made carpets. 25.75
x 20.5 cm.
Format: black and white photograph.
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Workers at Various Tasks
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Format: black and white photograph
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Scope and Contents
14 color images, 8x10
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| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Color Transparencies
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Format: black and white photograph
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Scope and Contents
16 images, 8x10; 11 images, 4x5. Nine images of a man posing with carpets, fourteen
images of carpet samples, and three miscellaneous images.
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| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Carpet Sample Photographs
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Format: black and white photograph
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Scope and Contents
3 black and white images, 8x10; 1 color image, 8x10; 1 black and white image (Polaroid),
4x5; 2 color images, 3x4 (Polaroid)
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| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Item 1: Carpet samples
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Format: color photograph
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Scope and Contents
Color Poloraid photograph, [1965-75?]. Image depicts a frame holding about 10 different
carpet samples. The Beattie Manufacturing Company made carpets. See Item 2 in this
folder for a better photograph of the same carpet samples. 8.5 x 10.75 cm.
Format: color photograph.
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| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Item 2: Carpet samples
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Format: color photograph
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Scope and Contents
Color Poloraid photograph, [1965-75?]. Image depicts a frame holding about 10 different
carpet samples. The Beattie Manufacturing Company made carpets. 8.5 x 10.75 cm.
Format: color photograph.
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| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Item 3: Carpet samples
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Format: black and white photograph
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Scope and Contents
Black-and-white Poloraid photograph, [1965-75?]. Image depicts a standing frame holding
eight carpet samples. The Beattie Manufacturing Company made carpets. 8.25 x 9 cm.
Format: black and white photograph.
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| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Item 4: Carpet sample "Volaree"
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Format: color photograph
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Scope and Contents
Gelatin silver print, [1965-75?]. Image depicts one carpet pattern; "Volaree 6900"
written on bottom margin. The Beattie Manufacturing Company made carpets. 20.5 x 25.5
cm.
Format: color photograph.
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| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Item 5: Carpet sample "Marco Polo"
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Format: color photograph
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Scope and Contents
Gelatin silver print, [1965-75?]. Image depicts one carpet pattern; "Marco Polo 3080"
written on bottom margin. The Beattie Manufacturing Company made carpets. 20.5 x 25.5
cm.
Format: color photograph.
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| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Item 6: Carpet sample "Scottsdale"
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Format: color photograph
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Scope and Contents
Gelatin silver print, [1965-75?]. Image depicts one carpet pattern; "Scottsdale 3600"
written in upper right-hand margin. The Beattie Manufacturing Company made carpets.
20.5 x 25.5 cm.
Format: color photograph.
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| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Item 7: Carpet sample
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Format: black and white photograph
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Scope and Contents
Image depicts multi-colored carpet pattern. See transparency in folder 6.
Format: black and white photograph.
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| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Herculon Welcomes Beattie Dealers
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Format: black and white photograph
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Scope and Contents
1 color image, 5x7
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