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Charles B. Nichols Collection of Textile Industry Graphics

Collection Number: 6561 G

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

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Container		Description	Date
Box 1	Folder 1	Bliss, Fabyan & Co.
Box 1	Folder 1	Item 1: Bliss Fabyan Mills.
		Format: Graphics
		Photogravure, n.d. Composite idealized picture of Bliss Fabyan mills; some old buildings are modernized in the picture and locations are arbitrary. "H" is the Boston Duck Company, Bondsville, Mass.; "F" is the Otis Co., Ware, Mass.; "K" is the Columbian Manufacturing Co., Greenville #6, #4, #1 and far right is #2 or High Bridge, New Ipswich, N.H. In top back are No. 2 and No. 1 Thorndike. Piece that appears to be attached to the right, covering a hole, does not actually match the image underneath, but may have been applied to make the composite picture. Image appears to have had a watercolor wash applied. 84 x 18 cm.
Box 1	Folder 1	Item 2: Boston Duck Company and Bondsville Bleachery and Dye Works, Bondsville, Mass.	1918
		Format: Graphics
		Bliss, Fabyan & Co., Agents. Boston--New York--Chicago--St. Louis--San Francisco. "Spofford NY 1918" in lower right-hand corner. Simplex Litho Co. New York. Photogravure. Main image is view of mill complex with one smoking chimney; trees and rural area in background. Views of the Power House, the plant, and the Storehouse--all from 1895--are shown at the top of print. 85 x 35 cm. Copy A.
Box 1	Folder 1	Item 3: Boston Duck Company and Bondsville Bleachery and Dye Works, Bondsville, Mass.	1918
		Format: Graphics
		Bliss, Fabyan & Co., Agents. Boston--New York--Chicago--St. Louis--San Francisco. "Spofford NY 1918" in lower right-hand corner. Simplex Litho Co. New York. Photogravure. Main image is view of mill complex with one smoking chimney; trees and rural area in background. Views of the Power House, the plant, and the Storehouse--all from 1895--are shown at the top of print. Copy B. 85 x 35 cm.
Box 1	Folder 1	Item 4: Warren Cotton Mills of the Thorndike Company, West Warren, Mass.
		Format: Graphics
		"Francis Norris, Worcester, Mass." in lower left-hand corner. Photomechanical print, ca. 1920. View shows large complex of mill buildings, smoking chimney, with one horse and wagon, one streetcar, and several automobiles on roads in front of complex. Houses visible in background. 52.5 x 34 cm.
Box 1	Folder 2	Arkansas Cotton Mills Co. -- Arkansas Gazette, Little Rock, Sunday, July 22, 1972	1972
Box 2	Folder 1	Augusta and Lewiston, ME
Box 2	Folder 1	Item 1: Edwards Mfg. Co., Augusta, Maine	1918
		Format: Graphics
		Gelatin silver print. Photograph of a lithograph of the Edwards Manufacturing Company in Augusta, Maine, done by the Simplex Litho Co., New York. Image depicts a complex of multiple mill buildings along the Kennebec River. Houses scattered in the background and on the left. "Spofford N.Y. 1918" in lower right-hand corner, but it is unclear if this is the photographer or possibly the artist of the original print. Bliss, Fabyan & Co. were the agents for Edwards Manufacturing. Edwards manufactured cotton sateens, flannels, twills, and pillow tubing. 35 x 17.5 cm.
Box 2	Folder 1	Item 2: Hill Manufacturing Co., Lewiston, Maine	1918
		Format: Graphics
		Gelatin silver print. Photograph of a lithograph of the Hill Manufacturing Company in Lewiston, Maine, done by the Simplex Litho Co., New York. Image depicts a very large, seven-story mill building, which appears to have several extensions on it. Road in foreground with a small bridge leading over a canal to the complex. Houses and rural landscape faintly visible in the background. "Spofford N.Y. 1918" in lower right-hand corner, but it is unclear if this is the photographer or possibly the artist of the original print. Bliss, Fabyan & Co. were the agents for Hill Manufacturing. Hill manufactured cotton sheetings, shirtings, and twills, sateens, coutils, and gauze. 35 x 14.25 cm.