C. G. Sargent''s Sons Photographs

Collection Number: 6550 P

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

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:

C. G. Sargent''s Sons Photographs, 1889-1934

Collection Number:

6550 P

Creator:

C. G. Sargent's Sons Corp.

Quantity:

1.5 linear ft.

Forms of Material:

Cyanotype, gelatin silver print, photographs, photomechanical--halftone.

Repository:

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

Abstract:

Collection of photographs of mill, machinery and other mill equipment, some of which include mill workers. Also includes contents of several photo albums.

Language:

Collection material in English

ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY

The company, located in Graniteville, a locality in Westford, Massachusetts, was founded in 1854 as a partnership of two machinists and inventors, Francis A. Calvert and Charles G. Sargent. It primarily manufactured wool preparatory machinery, including burring, picking, washing, and drying machines. C.G. Sargent also developed and manufactured the "New England comber." C.G. Sargent learned his trade in the Lowell Machine Shop and in a West Chelmsford worsted mill. He had also been a partner in two other firms, Lane and Sargent, and Marvel, Sargent and Company. In 1862 he bought out Calvert's interest; the company eventually became C.G. Sargent and Son.

PROVENANCE:

American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of the C. G. Sargent's Sons Corporation.

SUBJECTS

Names:

Horn, George.

Sargent, Frederick G.

C.G. Sargent's Sons Corp.

Magee Carpet Co.

R. C. Jefferson Company.

Rodney Hunt Machine Company.

Subjects:

Advertising

Bearings (Machinery)

Cotton -- Technology

Drying

Executives

Washing machines

Textile factories

Textile machinery

Textile machinery industry

Wool scouring

Woolen and worsted machinery

Geographic Subjects:

Orange (Mass.)

Form and Genre Terms:

Cyanotype

Gelatin silver print

Photographs

Photomechanical--halftone

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Access Restrictions:

Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference archivist for access to these materials.

Restrictions on Use:

This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.

Cite As:

C. G. Sargent''s Sons Photographs #6550 P. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.

RELATED MATERIALS

Related Collections:
6550: C. G. Sargent's Sons Records
6550 G: C. G. Sargent's Sons Graphics
6550 GPN: C. G. Sargent's Sons Glass Plate Negatives

CONTAINER LIST

Container		Description	Date
Box 1	Folder 1	Shaft bearing on fulling mill ; Photos of bearings and machine parts	1934
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 1	Item 1: Close-up view of shaft bearing	1950-1967
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print snapshot, [1950-67]. Image depicts a close-up view of a shaft bearing on either a fulling mill or a cloth washer. Unknown manufacturer. 7 x 11.5 cm.
Box 1	Folder 1	Item 2: Close-up view of conveyor.	1934
		Format: Black and white photograph
		The first conveyor of this construction was sold on August 10, 1934, to the Magee Carpet Co., Bloomsburg, PA, on order no.15554. The photograph was taken on September 24, 1934.
Box 1	Folder 1	Item 3: Roller Bearing
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Disassembled view.
Box 1	Folder 1	Item 4: Roller Bearing
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Disassembled view.
Box 1	Folder 1	Item 5: Roller Bearing
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Disassembled view.
Box 1	Folder 1	Item 6: Roller Bearing
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Disassembled view.
Box 1	Folder 1	Item 7: Roller Bearing
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Assembled view.
Box 1	Folder 1	Item 8: Roller Bearing
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Assembled view.
Box 1	Folder 1	Item 9: Roller Bearing
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Assembled view.
Box 1	Folder 2	Photographs of a machinery	1889
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 2	Item 1: Improved Metallic Waste Card	1889
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 2	Item 2: View of Double Cylinder Opener
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Driving side.
Box 1	Folder 2	Item 3: Carbonizing Cone Duster
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Front view of right-hand.
Box 1	Folder 3	Hunt wet finishing reel machine	1922
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 3	Item 1: Wet finishing machine, Rodney Hunt Machine Company	1922
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Photo by P.E. Genereaux, Lynn, Mass. Gelatin silver print. Image depicts a wet finishing machine, manufactured by the Rodney Hunt Machine Company of Orange, Mass., on display at the Philadelphia Knit Goods Show, May 22, 1922. Behind and to the right of.
Box 1	Folder 4	Contents of a small photo album - machinery photographs
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 5	Square Duster, Wool Opener, Cone Duster
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 5	Item 1: Square Duster
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 5	Item 2: Wool Opener
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 5	Item 3: Cone Duster
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Feed side. Patented February 19, 1884.
Box 1	Folder 5	Item 4: Cone Duster
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Feed side.
Box 1	Folder 6	Hopper Feeder
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 6	Item 1: Hopper Feeder
		Format: Black and white photograph
		no.115.
Box 1	Folder 7	Automatic Belt Driller
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 7	Item 1: Automatic Belt-Driller
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 7	Item 2: Machine Parts
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Patented May 21, 1912, #1026704.
Box 1	Folder 7	Item 3: Machine Parts
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 8	Sargent Dryer
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Advertising photograph with text. 27 copies.
Box 1	Folder 9	Automatic Belt Driller
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 9	Item 1: Automatic Belt-Driller	1913
		Format: Black and white photograph
		April 11, 1913.
Box 1	Folder 9	Item 2: Automatic Belt-Driller	1913
		Format: Black and white photograph
		April 11, 1913.
Box 1	Folder 10	Automatic Driller
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 10	Item 1: Automatic Driller
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 10	Item 2: Automatic Driller
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 10	Item 3: Automatic Belt-Driller
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 11	Blowers and Lab Dryer	1933
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 11	Item 1: Blower	1934
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Photograph taken February 27, 1934 by Richard Hall. See Celanese drawing #B-106-J, dated December 28, 1933.
Box 1	Folder 11	Item 2: Blower	1934
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Photograph taken February 27, 1934 by Richard Hall. See Celanese drawing #B-106-J, dated December 28, 1933.
Box 1	Folder 11	Item 3: Lab Dryer
		Format: Black and white photograph
		No equipment. Showing instrument panel.
Box 1	Folder 12	Cone Duster
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 12	Item 1: Cone Duster
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Showing interior.
Box 1	Folder 12	Item 2: Carbonizing Duster
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 13	Metallic Waste Card
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 13	Item 1: Improved Metallic Waste Card
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 13	Item 2: Metallic Waste Card
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 14	Improved Metallic Waste Card
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 14	Item 1: Improved Metallic Waste Card
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 14	Item 2: Improved Metallic Waste Card
		Format: Black and white photograph
		For working or reducing yarn, thread work, and soft flannels to wool.
Box 1	Folder 15	Duster photo ; drying oven apron pulley ; improved single crabbing machine ; Scouring Bowl
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 15	Item 1: Duster
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 15	Item 2: Drying Oven Apron Pully
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 15	Item 3: Improved Simple Crabbing Machine
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 15	Item 4: Scouring Bowl
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 15	Item 5: Deep Feed for Long Wool
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 16	Miscellaneous, unnumbered photographs of mill machines
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 17	Miscellaneous photographs - men and mill machinery (12)
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 18	Miscellaneous Photographs - factory machines (12)
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 19	Duster screen
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 19	Item 1: Duster Screen	1929
		Format: Black and white photograph
		June, 1929. With brush-type traversing stripper waste removing screw.
Box 1	Folder 20	Pit feed - #8304
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 20	Item 1: Pit Feed
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 21	Multipass Drying Oven and Other Machines
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 21	Item 1: Multipass Drying Oven
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 21	Item 2: Multipass Drying Oven
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 21	Item 3: Multipass Drying Oven
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 21	Item 4: Multipass Drying Oven
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 21	Item 5: Multipass Drying Oven
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Air fan.
Box 1	Folder 21	Item 6: Filling Yarn Conditioner
		Format: Black and white photograph
		For relaxing kinky yarns (twist setting).
Box 1	Folder 21	Item 7: Firestone Reelzim Rubber Dryer	1942
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 22	Burr Machines
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 22	Item 1: Burring attachment for carding machine	1885
		Format: Black and white photograph
		January 1885.
Box 1	Folder 22	Item 2: Burring attachment for carding machine
		Format: Black and white photograph
		For carding machine.
Box 1	Folder 23	Winders
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 23	Item 1: Spool or bobbin winder, seen from the left end
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, [19--, before 1967]. Image depicts a spool or bobbin winder from the left end, possibly English, probably manufactured in the late 19th century. May also have been manufactured by C.G. Sargent's Sons Corp. Photographed against a b.
Box 1	Folder 23	Item 2: Spool or bobbin winder, seen from the right end
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, [19--, before 1967]. Image depicts a spool or bobbin winder from the right end, possibly English, probably manufactured in the late 19th century. May also have been manufactured by C.G. Sargent's Sons Corp. Photographed against a.
Box 1	Folder 23	Item 3: Spool or bobbin winder, back view
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, [19--, before 1967]. Image depicts a spool or bobbin winder from the back, possibly English, probably manufactured in the late 19th century. May also have been manufactured by C.G. Sargent's Sons Corp. Photographed against a backed.
Box 2	Folder 1	Contents of photo album - Sargent & Sons Machinery VERY BRITTLE	1892-1895
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 2	Folder 1	Item 1: Photograph Album	1892
		Format: Bound volume
		February 1892.
Box 2	Folder 2	Scouring Bowl ; Yarn Conditioner
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 2	Folder 2	Item 1: Scouring Bowl
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 2	Folder 2	Item 2: Yarn Conditioner
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Applies moisture to relax the twist in the yarn. Pacific Mills.
Box 2	Folder 3	Dryers
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 2	Folder 3	Item 1: Loose Stock Wool Dryer
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Feed end.
Box 2	Folder 3	Item 2: Loose Stock Wool Dryer
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Feeder and oven.
Box 2	Folder 3	Item 3: Loose Stock Wool Dryer
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Side and delivery end.
Box 2	Folder 3	Item 4: Loose Stock Wool Dryer
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Feed end and oven.
Box 2	Folder 3	Item 5: Square Picker-Duster
		Format: Black and white photograph
		For wool.
Box 2	Folder 3	Item 6: Improved Cotton Dryer, Self and Feed
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 2	Folder 3	Item 7: Loose Stock Wool Dryer
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Feeder and oven.
Box 2	Folder 3	Item 8: Improved Cotton Dryer, Self and Feed
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 2	Folder 4	Sargent Parallel Rake Bowl - (1909) ; P 14.91 - Carbonizing Oven ; P 14.90 - Carbonizing Oven	1909
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 2	Folder 4	Item 1: Carbonizing Oven
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 2	Folder 4	Item 2: Carbonizing Oven
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 2	Folder 4	Item 3: 21-foot Sargent Parallel Rake Bowl	1909
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Driving side, left hand model, with model L automatic feed.
Box 2	Folder 5	Photo album contents - Photos of factory machines
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 2	Folder 5	Item 1: Photograph Album
		Format: Bound volume
		Photo album containing images of machinery from C.G. Sargent's Sons, Graniteville, MA.
Box 2	Folder 6	Yarn conditioner ; Exterior of mill
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 2	Folder 6	Item 1: Yarn Conditioner
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Twist setting.
Box 2	Folder 6	Item 2: Sargent 21 foot Right Hand model No. 34 Bowl	1911
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Halftone. Image shows machinery from the driving side, with deep bottoms and setting tank. 45.5 x 29 cm.
Box 2	Folder 6	Item 3: Unidentified mill, Dover, Maine?
		Format: Black and white photograph
		McKenchnie Photo Co., Dover, Maine. Gelatin silver print, [ca1890]. Image depicts unidentified mill, possibly in Dover, Maine, based on the location of the photographer. Four-story wooden frame building, with several smaller additions and outbuildings.
Box 3	Folder 1	Press Roll Frame, Feed and Doffer Aprons, Fan Doffer Beater, Draw Rolls -- "Album with photos"
		Format: Black and white photograph; Text
Box 3	Folder 1	Item 1: Press Roll Frame.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Feed & Doffer Aprons, Fan Doffer Beater, Draw Rolls - May 1882 - (in folder).
Box 3	Folder 2	P 14.113 -- Picture of F.G. Sargent + George Horn and what appears to be a fan
Box 3	Folder 3	Parallel Rake Motion Wool Washer -- no ATHM collection no. -- 4 copies
Box 3	Folder 4	P 353.2 -- Carbonizing (with crush roller feed)

Contents

C. G. Sargent''s Sons Photographs

Collection Number: 6550 P

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