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Charles B. Nichols Collection of Textile Industry Photographs

Collection Number: 6561 P

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

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Container		Description	Date
Box 1	Folder 1	Oversize Photographs, Mostly Otis Company
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 1	Folder 1	Item 1: Agents of Bliss, Fabyan & Co. Mills	1923
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Bachrach, photographer. Gelatin silver print. Image depicts seven men posed for a formal studio photograph, all agents of mills operated by the Bliss, Fabyan & Co. Back row, left to right: E. G. Childs, Boston Duck Co., Bondsville (Palmer), Mass.; C. A. Tabor, Thorndike Co., Thorndike (Palmer), Mass.; G. E. Tucker, Otis Co., Ware, Mass. Front row, left to right: F. W. Ely, Columbian Mfg. Co., Greenville, N.H.; F. A. Upham, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.; F. A. Moore, Cordis Mill, Millbury, Mass.; and V. C. Faunce, Warren Cotton Mill, West Warren, Mass. All are dressed formally in three-piece suits and ties; ages range from early 50s to 70s. 27.5 x 23.75 cm. (to edge of indent); 37.5 x 25 cm. (includes wide margin around image). Stored in Bachrach folder.
Box 1	Folder 1	Item 2: View of Counting Room building and Mill No. 3, Otis Company, Ware, Mass.	1876
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Albumen print. Image depicts the Counting Room of the Otis Company in the foreground (note the sign on the building), a two-story brick building with four chimneys. Behind it is Mill No. 3, a four-and-a-half-story brick building with a central clock tower; the clock reads 2:45 pm. A wooden picket fence encloses the yard around Mill No. 3. The Otis Company made cotton checks, denims, and fine underwear. 34 x 25 cm.
Box 1	Folder 1	Item 3: Panoramic view of Ware, Mass., from a hill to the southeast
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1890. Image depicts a panoramic view of the town of Ware, Mass., taken from a hill to the southeast, near the site of the Old Warren Road. Virtually the entire town is seen in the center of the photo, with open land in the foreground and more open/wooded land in the background. Most of the mills appear in the center right. Image is oval printed onto heavy paper. 39.75 x 26 cm. (to edges of image); 56.25 x 45.5 cm.
Box 1	Folder 1	Item 4: Mill No. 3, Otis Company, Ware, Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Albumen print, ca. 1880-1890. Image depicts Mill No. 3 of the Otis Company in Ware, Mass. Building is four-and-a-half-story brick with a seven-story clock tower in the center (clock reads 11:20 am). On the left is a three-story brick building with a chimney behind it and a two-story brick addition. Another large mill building can be seen behind this addition. Wooden picket fence encloses the property. Trees are bare; photo taken in late autumn or winter. The Otis Company made checks, denims, and fine underwear. 49 x 38.5 cm.
Box 1	Folder 1	Item 5: Mill No. 3, Otis Company, Ware, Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1885-1900. Image depicts the front of Mill No. 3 of the Otis Company in Ware, Mass., before the second tower was added and the roof raised. Building is four-and-a-half-story brick, with a central tower in the front with a clock (reading 1:05 pm) at the top of the tower. A two-story white brick building is on the right; workers can be seen in the first- and second-story windows. This building is the counting room of Otis Company; see Item 2, in this folder, for a good view of this building. Yard is enclosed by a wooden picket fence; signpost on edge of road gives mileage for Worcester, Warren, Barre, Hardwick, Gilbertville, and West Brookfield. Trees are bare; photo probably taken in late autumn or winter. See Item 4, in this folder, for a view of this same building from a different angle, and Item 7, in this folder, for a view of the same building after the second tower had been added. The Otis Company made cotton checks, denims, and fine underwear. Copy A. 49.75 x 40 cm. (w/out mount); 71.25 x 55.5 cm. (w/mount).
Box 1	Folder 1	Item 6: Mill No. 3, Otis Company, Ware, Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1885-1900. Image depicts the front of Mill No. 3 of the Otis Company in Ware, Mass., before the second tower was added and the roof raised. Building is four-and-a-half-story brick, with a central tower in the front with a clock (reading 1:05 pm) at the top of the tower. A two-story white brick building is on the right; workers can be seen in the first- and second-story windows. This building is the counting room of Otis Company; see Item 2, in this folder, for a good view of this building. Yard is enclosed by a wooden picket fence; signpost on edge of road gives mileage for Worcester, Warren, Barre, Hardwick, Gilbertville, and West Brookfield. Trees are bare; photo probably taken in late autumn or winter. See Item 4, in this folder, for a view of this same building from a different angle, and Item 7, in this folder, for a view of the same building after the second tower had been added. The Otis Company made cotton checks, denims, and fine underwear. Copy B. 49.75 x 39.25 cm.
Box 1	Folder 1	Item 7: Mill No. 3, Otis Company, Ware, Mass., after second tower added
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1900-1920. Image depicts the front of Mill No. 3 of the Otis Company in Ware, Mass., after the second tower was added and the roof raised to make the building six stories in total (the sixth story is set back from edge of building). The original tower with the clock (reading 6:50 am?) is on the right; the new tower marks where the building was extended to the left. Yard is enclosed by a wooden picket fence. Trees are bare; photo probably taken in late autumn or winter. See Items 4, 5, and 6, in this folder for views of this same building before the second tower had been added and the roof raised. The Otis Company made cotton checks, denims, and fine underwear. 61 x 49.25 cm. (w/out mount); 64 x 49.25 cm. (w/mount).
Box 1	Folder 1	Item 8: Palmer Mill, Otis Company, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Albumen print, ca. 1875. Image depicts the Palmer Mill operated by the Otis Company in Three Rivers, Mass. (part of Palmer, Mass.). Building is a four-and-a-half story brick building with a tower in the center. Yard is enclosed by wooden picket fence. Man standing on a horse-drawn wagon is on the right in the yard; another man stands at the foot of the steps to the entrance. Note the ironwork fire escape on the end of the building on the left. 42 x 32 cm.
Box 1	Folder 1	Item 9: Thorndike Mill No. 1, Palmer, Mass.	1870
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Albumen print. Image depicts the Thorndike Mill No. 1 (of the Thorndike Company) in Palmer, Mass., viewed from across a stream or river. Bridge crosses the water in the center ground; mill is in the background, a four-and-a-half story stone building with a tower in the center. Other one-story stone buildings on the right. The Thorndike Company made tickings, denims, and awnings. 33.5 x 25 cm.
Box 1	Folder 1	Item 10: Thorndike Mill No. 2, Palmer, Mass.	1868
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Albumen print. Image depicts a front view of the Thorndike Mill No. 2 (of the Thorndike Company) in Palmer, Mass. Building is five-story stone with a tower in the center. A house is visible in the left background, and a chimney is in the left foreground. See Items 11 and 12, in this folder, for a view of the rear of this mill. The Thorndike Company made tickings, denims, and awnings. 50.5 x 28 cm.
Box 1	Folder 1	Item 11: Rear view of Thorndike Mill No. 2, Palmer, Mass.	1868
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Albumen print, 1868. Image depicts a rear view of the Thorndike Mill No. 2 (of the Thorndike Company) in Palmer, Mass. Building is five-story stone with a small tower in the center. Note the ironwork fire escape on the end of the building. A one-story building with a tall chimney is on the right (note the worker standing in the doorway). A river or stream runs directly behind the mill building. Photograph is taken from across a road on the non-mill side of the river. See Item 10, in this folder, for a view of the front of this mill, and Item 12, in this folder, for another view of the rear. The Thorndike Company made tickings, denims, and awnings. 50.75 x 30.25 cm.
Box 1	Folder 1	Item 12: Rear view of the Thorndike Mill No. 2, Palmer, Mass.	1870
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Albumen print. Image depicts a rear view of the Thorndike Mill No. 2 (of the Thorndike Company) in Palmer, Mass. Building is five-story stone with a tower in the center. A two-story stone building with a chimney is on the right, along with several clapboard buildings. A stream or river flows through the foreground with railroad tracks on the side across from the mill. Photo taken from a higher vantage point, such as a hill. Item 10, in this folder, for a view of the front of this mill, and Item 11, in this folder, for another view of the rear. The Thorndike Company made tickings, denims, and awnings. 34 x 25 cm.
Box 2	Folder 1	Bates Manufacturing Co., Lewiston, Maine
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 2	Folder 1	Item 1: Bates Manufacturing Co., Lewiston, Maine
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Photograph of a lithograph or other photomechanical print of the Bates Manufacturing Company in Lewiston, Maine. Image depicts a very large mill building on the left with additions or attachments behind it, with a very large weave shed on the right. A canal flows in front of the complex. Some scattered housing and rural area 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 the Bates Manufacturing Co., which manufactured cotton table damasks, seersuckers, bedspreads and yarn. 34.75 x 12 cm.
Box 2	Folder 2	Lewiston Bleachery and Dye Works, Lewiston, Maine
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 2	Folder 2	Item 1: Lewiston Bleachery and Dye Works, Lewiston, Maine
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Photograph of a lithograph of the Lewiston Bleachery and Dye Works in Lewiston, Maine, done by the Simplex Litho Co., New York. Image depicts a large, three-story mill building, which appears to have several extensions on it, and another building on the left connected with several outdoor walkways between the two. One smoking chimney in the center. Rural landscape 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. 35 x 12.75 cm.
Box 2	Folder 3	Androscoggin Mills, Lewiston, Maine
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 2	Folder 3	Item 1: Androscoggin Mills, Lewiston, Maine
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Photograph of a lithograph of the Androscoggin Mills in Lewiston, Maine, done by the Simplex Litho Co., New York. Image depicts a complex of mill buildings in the center; a body of water, probably the Androscoggin River, can be seen on the right, flowing behind the mills. There are railroad tracks in the foreground and to the left, and a canal in the foreground. Houses are scattered 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 the Androscoggin Mills, which manufactured cotton sheetings, shirtings, coutils, jeans, seersucker, quilts and grain bags. 35 x 13 cm.
Box 2	Folder 4	Warren Cotton Mills, West Warren, Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 2	Folder 4	Item 1: Warren Cotton Mills, West Warren, Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Image is of a lithograph of the Warren Cotton Mills in West Warren, Mass. Depicts a large complex of buildings with several smoking chimneys; trees in foreground; rural land in the background. Original lithograph possibly done in 1918; not owned by ATHM. 35.25 x 8.5 cm.
Box 2	Folder 5	Boston Duck Company, Bondsville, Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 2	Folder 5	Item 1: Boston Duck Company, Bondsville, Mass.	1918
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print. Photograph of a photogravure of the Boston Duck Company, Bondsville, Mass. Image depicts the complex of buildings with one smoking chimney to the right, trees in the foreground, and trees and rural area in the background. Three vignettes across the top border: on the left is the power house, in the center is the complex dated 1895, and on the right is the storehouse. "Spofford NY 1918" in the lower right-hand corner but it is unclear if this is the photographer or possibly the artist of the original print. See Collection 6561 G, Box 1, Folder 1, Items 2 and 3, for copies of the original photogravure, although that item is titled "Boston Duck Company and Bondsville Bleachery and Dye Works." Bliss, Fabyan & Co. were the agents for the Bondsville Duck Company, with offices in Boston, New York, Chicago, and St. Louis. The Boston Duck Company manufactured cotton duck, flannels and blanket linings. 34.5 x 13 cm.
Box 2	Folder 6	Palmer Mill, Three Rivers, Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 2	Folder 6	Item 1: Palmer Mill, Three Rivers, Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Photograph of a lithograph? or photomechanical print? of the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers, Mass. Image depicts the mill complex containing a number of buildings, with trees in the foreground, and trees and a rural area in the background. One smoking chimney on one of the background buildings. "Spofford N.Y. 1918" in lower left-hand corner, but it is unclear if this is the photographer or possibly the artist of the original lithograph. Bliss, Fabyan & Co. were the agents for the Palmer Mill, with offices in Boston, New York, Chicago, and St. Louis. The Palmer Mill, operated by the Otis Company, manufactured cotton goods. 34.5 x 14 cm.
Box 2	Folder 7	Otis Company, Ware, Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 2	Folder 7	Item 1: Otis Company, Ware, Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Photograph of a lithograph done of the Otis Company in Ware, Mass., by the Simplex Litho Co., New York. Image depicts a view of the complex with multiple buildings and a smoking chimney in the center. Trees and rural landscape in the background. Three vignettes along the top border, the center of which is dated 1846 and presumably refers to the company buildings present at that time. "Spofford N.Y. 1918" in lower left-hand corner but it is unclear if this is the photographer or perhaps the artist of the original lithograph. Bliss, Fabyan & Co. were the agents for the Otis Company, with offices in Boston, New York, Chicago, and St. Louis. The Otis Company manufactured cotton checks and denims, as well as flat and ribbed underwear. 34.75 x 14 cm.
Box 2	Folder 8	Pepperrell Manufacturing Co., Biddeford, Maine
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 2	Folder 8	Item 1: Pepperell Manufacturing Company, Biddeford, Maine.	1918
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Spofford, N.Y. [photographer?--may be lithographer]. Gelatin silver print. Photograph of a lithograph (or photomechanical print) of the Pepperell Manufacturing Company in Biddeford, Maine. Image depicts a large mill complex in the center, with trees and rural land in the background; cars, streetcars, pedestrians in foreground. 35.5 x 14.75 cm.
Box 2	Folder 9	Thorndike Company, Thorndike, Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 2	Folder 9	Item 1: Thorndike Company, Thorndike, Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Photograph of a lithograph? or photomechanical print? of the Thorndike Company in Thorndike, Mass. Image depicts the mill complex containing a number of buildings, with trees in the foreground, and trees and some scattered houses 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 the Thorndike Company, with offices in Boston, New York, Chicago, and St. Louis. The Thorndike Company manufactured cotton tickings, denims and awnings. 35 x 10.25 cm.
Box 2	Folder 10	Columbian Manufacturing Co., Greenville, N.H.
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 2	Folder 10	Item 1: Columbian Manufacturing Co., Greenville, N.H.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Photograph of a lithograph of the Columbian Manufacturing Co. in Greenville, N.H., done by the Simplex Litho Co., New York. Image depicts a complex of buildings with several smoking chimneys, and a pond in the lower right. Trees and rural land in the background. One small vignette in the upper left margin, labeled "warehouse." "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 lithograph. The Columbian Manufacturing Company was a cotton mill, making cheviots, denims and stripes. Bliss, Fabyan & Co. were the agents for the Columbian, with offices in Boston, New York, Chicago, and St. Louis. 34.5 x 13.25 cm.
Box 2	Folder 11	Cordis Mills, Milbury, Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 2	Folder 11	Item 1: Cordis Mills, Milbury, Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Photograph of a lithograph of the Cordis Mills in Millbury, Mass., done by the Simplex Litho Co., New York. Image depicts the mill, which is a large three-story building in the center with several other buildings or extensions attached to it, and a pond in the foreground. Two vignettes in the upper border: the one on the left resembles a large house and is unlabeled (the beginnings of the company?); the one on the right is the company complex in 1875. "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 the Thorndike Company, with offices in Boston, New York, Chicago, and St. Louis. The Cordis Mills manufactured coarse colored cottons. 34.5 x 14.25 cm.
Box 2	Folder 12	Office photo	1919
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 2	Folder 12	Item 1: Counting room, Appleton Mills, Lowell, Mass.	1919
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print. Image shows office workers, both men and women, in the counting room of the Appleton Mills, March 17, 1919. 21.75 x 16.75 cm. (w/out mount); 30.5 x 25.25 cm. (w/mount). Copy B.
Box 2	Folder 13	Appleton Co. Office	1919
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 2	Folder 13	Item 1: Counting room, Appleton Mills, Lowell, Mass.	1919
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print. Image shows office workers, both men and women, in the counting room of the Appleton Mills, March 17, 1919. 22 x 17 cm. (w/out mount); 30.5 x 25.5 cm. (w/mount). Copy A.
Box 2	Folder 14	Three River Mill (exterior photographs)	1910-1912
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 2	Folder 14	Item 1: View of Palmer Mill, Three Rivers, Mass.	1910
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print. Image shows mill in center, with open space and trees in foreground; chimney at center left; other buildings (houses) visible in background. Sept. 21, 1910 written on mount. 23 x 18 (w/out mount); 35.5 x 30.5 cm. (w/mount).
Box 2	Folder 14	Item 2: Exterior view of Palmer Mill, Three Rivers, Mass.	1911
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Woodhead, photographer. Gelatin silver print. Image of Palmer Mill along river, January 7, 1911. The Otis Company ran the Palmer Mill, the only mill in Three Rivers, Mass. at this time. 23 x 18 cm. (w/out mount); 35.5 x 30.5 cm. (w/mount).
Box 2	Folder 14	Item 3: Exterior view of weave shed, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers, Mass.	1912
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print. Image depicts the exterior of the weave shed of the Palmer Mill. Wide street in foreground, a little snow on the ground. The Otis Company ran the Palmer Mill, the only mill in Three Rivers, Mass. at this time. 23 x 18 cm. (w/out mount); 35.5 x 30.5 cm. (w/mount).
Box 2	Folder 14	Item 4: Hydro station, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers, Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1912-1913. Image shows the hydro station of the Palmer Mill, with water flowing over the spillway. The new hydroelectric plant of the Otis Company's Palmer Mill appears to have been built in 1912. The Palmer Mill sat at the confluence of the Ware, Quaboag and Chicopee rivers. See Item 5, in this folder, for another view from a different angle. 23 x 18 cm. (w/out mount); 35.5 x 30.5 cm. (w/mount).
Box 2	Folder 14	Item 5: View of the hydro station, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers, Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1912-1913. Image shows the hydroelectric station of the Palmer Mill from a different angle than Item 4, in this folder; more water flowing over the spillway is visible. The new hydroelectric plant of the Otis Company's Palmer Mill appears to have been built in 1912. The Palmer Mill sat at the confluence of the Ware, Quaboag and Chicopee rivers. 23 x 18 cm. (w/out mount); 35.5 x 30.5 cm. (w/mount).
Box 2	Folder 14	Item 6: Weave shed, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers, Mass.	1916
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print. Image shows interior view of weave shed; male and female workers stand in aisle, next to looms. The Otis Company ran the Palmer Mill, the only mill in Three Rivers, Mass. at this time. 23 x 18 cm. (w/out mount); 35.5 x 30.5 cm. (w/mount).
Box 2	Folder 15	Otis Company Yard about 1920, including Mill No. 3	1920
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 2	Folder 15	Item 1: View of Otis Company yard, Ware, Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image shows No. 3 Mill at left and counting room in rear (barely visible behind trees). 20.5 x 15 cm. (w/out mount); 30.5 x 26 cm. (w/mount).
Box 2	Folder 16	Thorndike Company
Box 2	Folder 16	Item 1: Thorndike Company, Thorndike, Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Photograph of a lithograph? or photomechanical print? of the Thorndike Company in Thorndike, Mass. Image depicts the mill complex containing a number of buildings, with trees in the foreground, and trees and some scattered houses 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 the Thorndike Company, with offices in Boston, New York, Chicago, and St. Louis. The Thorndike Company manufactured cotton tickings, denims and awnings. 35 x 10.25 cm.
Box 2	Folder 17	Group photo of workers outside of an unidentified mill
Box 2	Folder 17	Item 1: Employees outside Thorndike Mill No. 1, Palmer, Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1885-1900. Image depicts employees lined up outside the Thorndike Mill No. 1 (of the Thorndike Company) in Palmer, Mass. Mill is four-and-a-half-story stone building with a tower. Employees are lined up in the foreground, outside the picket fence that surrounds the property, and include men, women, and children. Note the young boys on the right and the boys standing on top of the fence posts on either side of the entrance to the yard. There are also some young teenage girls mixed in with the women. The Thorndike Company made tickings, denims, and awnings. 34.5 x 25 cm.
Box 2	Folder 18	Panoramic Photographs of Mills
Box 2	Folder 18	Item 1: Boott Mills along Merrimack River	1928
		Format: Black and white photograph
		May 31, 1928. Proprietors of the Locks & Canals photograph no.2393A.
Box 2	Folder 18	Item 2: Boott Mills along Merrimack River	1928
		Format: Black and white photograph
		May 31, 1928. Proprietors of the Locks & Canals photograph no.2393.
Box 2	Folder 18	Item 3: Lawrence Mfg. Co. along Merrimack River	1928
		Format: Black and white photograph
		May 31, 1928. Proprietors of the Locks & Canals photograph no.2390.
Box 2	Folder 18	Item 4: Lawrence Mfg. Co. along Merrimack River	1928
		Format: Black and white photograph
		May 31, 1928. Proprietors of the Locks & Canals photograph no.2390.
Box 2	Folder 18	Item 5: Pepperell Mfg. Co. along Merrimack River	1928
		Format: Black and white photograph
		May 31, 1928. Proprietors of the Locks & Canals photograph no.2394.
Box 2	Folder 18	Item 6: Pepperell Mfg. Co. along Merrimack River	1928
		Format: Black and white photograph
		May 31, 1928. Proprietors of the Locks & Canals photograph no.2394.
Box 2	Folder 18	Item 7: Merrimack Mfg. Co., along Merrimack River	1928
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Lawrence section. May 31, 1928. Proprietors of the Locks & Canals photograph no.2391.
Box 2	Folder 18	Item 8: Merrimack Mfg. Co., along Merrimack River	1928
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Lawrence section. May 31, 1928. Proprietors of the Locks & Canals photograph no.2392.
Box 2	Folder 18	Item 9: Merrimack Mfg. Co., along Merrimack River	1928
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Lawrence section. May 31, 1928. Proprietors of the Locks & Canals photograph no.2392A.
Box 2	Folder 18	Item 10: Saco-Lowell Shops, Lowell, MA
		Format: Black and white photograph
		ca. 1928-1929.
Box 2	Folder 18	Item 11: Saco-Lowell Shops, Lowell, MA
		Format: Black and white photograph
		ca. 1928-1929.
Box 3	Folder 1	Thorndike #2
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 3	Folder 1	Item 1: Thorndike Mill #2, Thorndike, Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1885. Image depicts the exterior of the Thorndike Mill #2 of the Thorndike Mfg. Co. The Thorndike Mfg. Co. manufactured cotton goods. Thorndike, Mass., is a village in present-day Palmer, Mass. 21.25 x 14 cm. (w/out mount); 22.5 x 15.75 cm. (w/mount).
Box 3	Folder 2	Ipswich Hosiery and Middlesex Co.	1928
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 3	Folder 2	Item 1: Ipswich Hosiery & Middlesex Co., Lowell, Mass.	1928
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Looking south, March 1928. Proprietors of the Locks & Canals photograph no.2376.
Box 3	Folder 3	Boston Duck Co.'s Mill	1890
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 3	Folder 3	Item 1: Boston Duck Company, Bondsville, Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1890. Image depicts the mill buildings of the Boston Duck Company in Bondsville (Palmer), Mass. Several buildings visible with large chimney on left; railroad tracks run across the foreground of the picture. Boston Duck Company made duck, ticking, and blankets. 23 x 18 cm. (w/out mount); 24.5 x 19.75 cm. (w/mount).
Box 3	Folder 4	Ware, MA
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 3	Folder 4	Item 1: Cloth finishing, Otis Company, Ware, Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Shalan, Main St., Worcester, Mass., photographer. Gelatin silver print, ca. 1910. Image depicts cloth finishing machinery in the Otis Company, Ware, Mass. 24 x 19 cm.
Box 3	Folder 4	Item 2: Chain dyeing machines, Otis Company, Ware, Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Shalan, Main St., Worcester, Mass. [photographer]. Gelatin silver print, ca. 1910. Image depicts an interior room in the Otis Company, Ware, Mass., containing chain dyeing machines. Chain dyeing is used for goods that will not withstand high tension, such as crepes, jersey cloth, etc. The goods are tied end to end in an endless rope form, which is then put onto a reel and passed through the dye bath in a continuous manner. 24 x 19 cm.
Box 3	Folder 4	Item 3: Warp spinning frames, Otis Company, Ware, Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Shalan, Main Street, Worcester, Mass., photographer. Gelatin silver print, ca. 1910. Image depicts warp spinning frames in the Otis Company, Ware, Mass. Large room, filled with spinning frames. 24 x 19 cm.
Box 3	Folder 4	Item 4: Cotton slashers, Otis Company, Ware, Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Shalan, Main Street, Worcester, Mass., photographer. Gelatin silver print, ca. 1910. Image depicts cotton slashing machinery in the Otis Company, Ware, Mass. Slashers are used to apply a size mixture to warp yarns. 24 x 19 cm.
Box 3	Folder 4	Item 5: Cotton roving frames, Otis Company, Ware, Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Shalan, Main Street, Worcester, Mass., photographer. Gelatin silver print, ca. 1910. Image depicts cotton roving frames in the Otis Company, Ware, Mass. A roving frame reduces the size of the stock, evens it, and inserts a twist in it. Roving frames draft the stock by means of rolls, twist it by means of a flyer, and wind it onto a wooden bobbin. 19 x 23.75 cm.
Box 3	Folder 4	Item 6: Otis Company Mill #1, Ware, Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Albumen print, ca. 1870s. Black and white image shows four-story stone building with five-story building in center front. Picket fence in foreground. 17.75 x 8.5 cm.
Box 3	Folder 4	Item 7: View of Otis Company yard, Ware, Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1910. Image depicts the yard of the Otis Company in Ware, Mass., from the Counting Room. Flower beds in foreground; fence on the left; Mill #1, a five-story granite building, is on the right. See Box 4, Folder 6, Item 3, in this collection, for approximately the same view but probably of a later date. 21.25 x 16.5 cm. (w/out mount); 25.5 x 20.75 cm. (w/mount).
Box 3	Folder 4	Item 8: Spinning room of the Otis Company, Ware, Mass., lighted by G.E. Mazda Lamps.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1915- 1920. Image depicts the spinning room of the Otis Company in Ware, Mass., lighted by G.E. Mazda Lamps. The Mazda name in light bulbs was created in 1909 for the Shelby Electric Company's new tungsten bulbs; General Electric purchased Shelby in 1914. The model A cotton spinning machines here were made by Whitin Machine Works. Photograph distributed by General Electric Company, Schenectady, New York. 23 x 18.75 cm. (w/out mount); 25 x 20.25 cm. (w/mount).
Box 3	Folder 4	Item 9: Spinning room of the Otis Company, Ware, Mass.	1935
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print. Image depicts the spinning room of the Otis Company in Ware, Mass.; spinning machinery made by Whitin Machine Works. Spinning machinery was installed in 1876 and thrown out in 1935; this photograph possibly taken shortly before the machinery was disposed of, as virtually all of the bobbins are empty. See Item 10, in this folder, for a slightly different angle on this machinery. 20 x 24.75 cm.
Box 3	Folder 4	Item 10: Spinning room of the Otis Company, Ware, Mass.	1935
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print. Image depicts the spinning room of the Otis Company in Ware, Mass.; spinning machinery made by Whitin Machine Works. Spinning machinery was installed in 1876 and thrown out in 1935; this photograph possibly taken shortly before the machinery was disposed of, as virtually all of the bobbins are empty. See Item 9, in this folder, for a slightly different angle on this machinery. 25 x 20 cm.
Box 3	Folder 5	Palmer Mill
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 3	Folder 5	Item 1: Interior of office of Palmer Mill, Three Rivers, Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Robert. L. Geer, Photographer. Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts the interior of the office of the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers, Mass. Counters mounted with iron framework; two female employees visible in left background, one (with back to camera) sits in front of a typewriter. 17.5 x 12.5 cm. (w/out mount); 25.25 x 20.25 cm. (w/mount). See Folder 6, Item 1, in this box, for an exterior view of this office.
Box 3	Folder 6	Palmer Mill
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 3	Folder 6	Item 1: Company office, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers, Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Robert. L. Geer, Photographer. Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts the company office of the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers, Mass., a village in present-day Palmer, Mass. Building is one-story brick, attached to three-story brick building on the left. Picket fence leading to yard on the right side. See Folder 5, Item 1, in this box, for a view of the interior of this office. 17.25 x 12.5 cm. (w/out mount); 25.5 x 20.25 cm. (w/mount). Copy A.
Box 3	Folder 7	Ware #1 & #2 Mills	1886-1887
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 3	Folder 7	Item 1: Geo. H. Gilbert Manufacturing Company Mill #1, Ware, Mass.	1886
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print. Image depicts a five-story granite building on a pond or river (probably either the Ware River or the Swift River); smaller buildings visible on the right. Photo taken May 15, 1886. Gilbert manufactured woolen dress goods. 19 x 13.5 cm. (w/out mount); 21.5 x 16.5 cm. (w/mount).
Box 3	Folder 7	Item 2: View of Ware Manufacturing Co. Mill #2, Ware, Mass., and surrounding buildings	1887
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Albumen print, April 15, 1887. Image depicts a five-story building on the left with a tower and a cupola visible on the back side of the roog. In front of the building and to the right are a number of various two-story buildings in the center and right background, at least some of which are probably company housing. A wooden bridge extends across a stream in the left foreground. Open space in the right foreground. See Item 3, in this folder, for a view of the mill from the other side (cupola side). 20.25 x 13.5 cm. (w/out mount); 21.5 x 16.5 cm. (w/mount).
Box 3	Folder 7	Item 3: View of Ware Manufacturing Co. Mill #2, Ware, Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1886. Image depicts a four-story brick building with a tower in front, topped with a cupola and weathervane, and a tall smokestack on the right. In the foreground is a picket fence surrounding the property. See Item 2, in this folder, for a view of the mill from the other side. 20.5 x 13.75 cm. (w/out mount); 21.5 x 16.5 cm. (w/mount).
Box 3	Folder 8	Appleton Mfg. Co.	1928
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 3	Folder 8	Item 1: Mills along the Merrimack River at Lowell, Mass.	1928
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print. Image depicts the mills lined up along the Merrimack River in Lowell, Mass., looking downstream. Photo taken from the Aiken Street Bridge on Feb. 24, 1928. 22.75 x 18.25 cm.
Box 3	Folder 8	Item 2: Appleton Company cloth display.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Will Rounds - Lowell, Mass. [photographer?]. Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920s. Image depicts a cloth display at an unknown exhibition of cloth manufactured by the Appleton Company of Lowell, Mass. Bolts of cloth are arranged, many wrapped with a paper wrapper with the picture of an apple on it. Note the edge of a similar display to the left of the Suffolk Mills. 24.5 x 19 cm. (w/out mount); 28.5 x 19 cm. (w/mount).
Box 3	Folder 8	Item 3: Appleton and Hamilton Mills, Lowell, Mass.	1928
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print. Image depicts the mills of the Appleton Company and the Hamilton Company of Lowell, Mass., looking east. Note the covered walkways that have been built over the railroad tracks. Photograph taken in March of 1928, possibly by or for the Proprietors of the Locks & Canals. 23.75 x 19 cm.
Box 3	Folder 8	Item 4: Appleton Company, Lowell, Mass.	1928
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print. Image depicts the Appleton Company as seen from the roof. This building is barely visible on the right in Item 3, in this folder. 25 x 20.5 cm.
Box 3	Folder 8	Item 5: Alley between Appleton Company buildings, Lowell, Mass.	1928
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print. Image depicts the alley between Appleton Company buildings, in Lowell, Mass. Two-story brick building on the left; four-story brick building on the right. Some sort of oil tank (?) is visible, with a covered walkway between the two buildings in the background. 25 x 20.25 cm.
Box 3	Folder 8	Item 6: Appleton Company from the roof, Lowell, Mass.	1928
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print. Image depicts the Appleton Company building from the roof of another building. Railroad cars in front of the building. 25 x 20.5 cm.
Box 3	Folder 8	Item 7: Appleton Company, Lowell, Mass.	1928
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print. Image depicts the Appleton Company building on Jackson Street in Lowell, Mass. Railroad cars on the tracks in front; automobiles parked on the street. Note the covered walkway leading to a building on the left (not visible in this photo). Building is five-story brick. Canal barely visible in left foreground. 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Copy A.
Box 3	Folder 8	Item 8: Appleton Company, Lowell, Mass.	1928
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print. Image depicts the Appleton Company building on Jackson Street in Lowell, Mass. Railroad cars on the tracks in front; automobiles parked on the street. Note the covered walkway leading to a building on the left (not visible in this photo). Building is five-story brick. Canal barely visible in left foreground. Copy B. 25.75 x 20.5 cm.
Box 3	Folder 8	Item 9: Appleton Company with overhead walkway, Lowell, Mass.	1928
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print. Image depicts one end of the Appleton Company building on Jackson Street in Lowell, Mass., showing the covered walkway connecting two buildings. Railroad tracks run parallel to the building under the walkway. Snow on the ground. 25 x 19.5 cm. Copy A.
Box 3	Folder 8	Item 10: Appleton Company with overhead walkway, Lowell, Mass.	1928
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print. Image depicts one end of the Appleton Company building on Jackson Street in Lowell, Mass., showing the covered walkway connecting two buildings. Railroad tracks run parallel to the building under the walkway. Snow on the ground. Copy B. 25.25 x 20 cm.
Box 3	Folder 8	Item 11: Appleton Company with overhead walkway, Lowell, Mass.	1928
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print. Image depicts one end of the Appleton Company building on Jackson Street in Lowell, Mass., showing the covered walkway connecting two buildings. Railroad tracks run parallel to the building under the walkway. Snow on the ground. Copy C. 24.75 x 19.5 cm.
Box 3	Folder 8	Item 12: Appleton Company with overhead walkway, Lowell, Mass.	1928
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print. Image depicts one end of the Appleton Company building on Jackson Street in Lowell, Mass., showing the covered walkway connecting two buildings. Railroad tracks run parallel to the building under the walkway. Snow on the ground. Copy D. 25.5 x 20.5 cm.
Box 3	Folder 8	Item 13: Empty interior room in Appleton Company, Lowell, Mass.	1928
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print. Image depicts a large empty interior room of the Appleton Company building, showing windows on both sides and a series of support posts down the center of the room. Photo probably taken for the purpose of advertising for lease or auction. See Item 13 through 19, in this folder, for various images of empty manufacturing space. 25.5 x 20.75 cm.
Box 3	Folder 8	Item 14: Empty interior room in Appleton Company, Lowell, Mass.	1928
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print. Image depicts a large empty interior room of the Appleton Company building, showing windows on one side and a series of support posts down the center of the room. Note the gearshafts overhead. Photo probably taken for the purpose of advertising for lease or auction. See Item 13 through 19, in this folder, for various images of empty manufacturing space. 25 x 20.25 cm.
Box 3	Folder 8	Item 15: Empty interior room in Appleton Company, Lowell, Mass.	1928
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print. Image depicts a large empty interior room of the Appleton Company building, with a number of large wooden packing crates scattered around. The large concrete support pillars and low ceiling suggest this is a basement room. Photo probably taken for the purpose of advertising for lease or auction. See Item 13 through 19, in this folder, for various images of empty manufacturing space. 25 x 20.25 cm.
Box 3	Folder 8	Item 16: Empty interior room with textile machinery in Appleton Company, Lowell, Mass.	1928
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print. Image depicts a large empty interior room of the Appleton Company building, with textile machinery visible in the back half of the room. Windows visible on either side; gearshaft for machinery overhead. Photo probably taken for the purpose of advertising for lease or auction. See Item 13 through 19, in this folder, for various images of empty manufacturing space. 25 x 20.25 cm.
Box 3	Folder 8	Item 17: Empty interior room in Appleton Company, Lowell, Mass.	1928
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print. Image depicts a large empty interior room of the Appleton Company building, with a few pieces of textile machinery barely visible in the background. Windows visible on either side. Photo probably taken for the purpose of advertising for lease or auction. See Item 18, in this folder, for a nearly identical view taken from even further away. See Item 13 through 19, in this folder, for various images of empty manufacturing space. 25.25 x 20 cm.
Box 3	Folder 8	Item 18: Empty interior room in Appleton Company, Lowell, Mass.	1928
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print. Image depicts a large empty interior room of the Appleton Company building, with a few pieces of textile machinery barely visible in the background. Windows visible on either side. The distance at which this photo was taken emphasizes the large area of the room available. Photo probably taken for the purpose of advertising for lease or auction. See Item 17, in this folder, for a nearly identical view taken from a slightly closer viewpoint. See Item 13 through 19, in this folder, for various images of empty manufacturing space. 25.5 x 20.25 cm.
Box 3	Folder 8	Item 19: Empty interior room in Appleton Company, Lowell, Mass.	1928
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print. Image depicts another view of the same large empty interior room of the Appleton Company building seen in Items 17 and 18, in this folder. This view shows more of the left-hand side of the room; windows on the right-hand side are barely visible. Photo probably taken for the purpose of advertising for lease or auction. See Item 13 through 19, in this folder, for various images of empty manufacturing space. 25.5 x 20 cm.
Box 3	Folder 8	Item 20: Entrance to Appleton Company yard, Lowell, Mass.	1928
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print. Image depicts the entrance to the Appleton Company yard, with "Appleton Company" over the doorway. A few signs for various small business that had rented space in the building are visible on the brick wall. Photo taken in winter; slush on the road leading to the entrance. Photo probably taken for the purpose of advertising for lease or auction. 25.25 x 20 cm. See Item 13 through 19, in this folder, for various images of empty manufacturing space. Copy A.
Box 3	Folder 8	Item 21: Entrance to Appleton Company yard, Lowell, Mass.	1928
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print. Image depicts the entrance to the Appleton Company yard, with "Appleton Company" over the doorway. A few signs for various small business that had rented space in the building are visible on the brick wall. Photo taken in winter; slush on the road leading to the entrance. Photo probably taken for the purpose of advertising for lease or auction. See Item 13 through 19, in this folder, for various images of empty manufacturing space. Copy B. 25 x 20 cm.
Box 3	Folder 9	Saco-Lowell Shops	1942
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 3	Folder 9	Item 1: Saco-Lowell Shops Bldg. #14 and Pickling Bldg., Lowell, Mass.	1942
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print. Image depicts Bldg. #14 of the Saco-Lowell Shops on the left and the Pickling Bldg. on the right. Bldg. #14 is a four-story white stone building; the Pickling Bldg. is a four-story brick building. Cars are parked in the yard. Photo taken April 8, 1942. The Saco-Lowell Shops manufactured textile machinery but ceased operation in Lowell in 1928. 23.75 x 18 cm.
Box 3	Folder 9	Item 2: Saco-Lowell Shops Bldg. #14, Pickling Bldg., and Appleton Company's coal pile, Lowell, Mass.	1942
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print. Image depicts Bldg. #14 of the Saco-Lowell Shops on the left, the Pickling Bldg. in the center, and the Appleton Company's coal pile on the right. The Appleton mills are on the right. The junction of the Merrimack Canal (on the left) and the Pawtucket Canal (on the right) in the foreground. Cars are parked in the yard. Photo taken April 8, 1942. Written on reverse: "Saco-Lowell building bought by Appleton about 1942 and rented out along with rest of Appleton Mills which are shown center and right." The Saco-Lowell Shops manufactured textile machinery but had ceased operations in Lowell by 1928. 24 x 18 cm.
Box 3	Folder 9	Item 3: Saco-Lowell Shops Bldg. #14 and portion of lower Middlesex Canal, Lowell, Mass.	1942
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print. Image depicts Bldg. #14 of the Saco-Lowell Shops with a portion of the lower Middlesex Canal on the left. Caption written on photo incorrectly states the Pawtucket Canal. Photo taken April 8, 1942. The Saco-Lowell Shops manufactured textile machinery but had ceased operations in Lowell by 1928. 23.75 x 18.75 cm.
Box 3	Folder 9	Item 4: Saco-Lowell Shops Bldg. #14, foundry yard and surrounding canals, Lowell, Mass.	1942
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print. Image depicts Bldg. #14 of the Saco-Lowell Shops (the light-colored building in the center left), the foundry yard, and the surrounding canals in Lowell, Mass. The brick buildings on the right are the Hamilton Mills. Photo taken April 8, 1942. The Saco-Lowell Shops manufactured textile machinery but had ceased operations in Lowell by 1928. 23.5 x 18 cm.
Box 3	Folder 9	Item 5: View of Western Canal, Lowell, Mass.	1927
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, July 26, 1927. Image depicts the Western Canal in Lowell, Mass., with the Tremont Mill in the foreground and the Merrimack Mill in the background. #2291 (. Proprietors of the Locks & Canals photograph?). 23.5 x 17 cm.
Box 3	Folder 10	Group photo and Weave room, Ware Mill #4
Box 3	Folder 10	Item 1: Office workers, Appleton Mill, Lowell, Mass. .	1919
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, March 17, 1919. Image depicts the office staff in the counting room of the Appleton Mill in Lowell, Mass. Eight people are pictured, four women and four men. The women wear white blouses with dark skirts; the one on the left appears to have a frilly apron on, while the woman who is seated wears what appears to be a short leather apron and a very large bow- type tie. One of the women standing in the rear wears a men's-type tie. The four men all wear three-piece suits and ties; the older man sitting in the left foreground, wearing spectacles, may be the supervisor. All are posed in the interior of the office with filing cabinets on the right and a desk loaded with paperwork behind them. They are identified as the office staff of the counting room in Folder 13, Item 1, in this box; Folder 12, Item 1, in this box, bears the date of 3/17/19. 21.5 x 17 cm. (w/out mount); 30.5 x 25.5 cm. (w/mount).
Box 3	Folder 10	Item 2: Interior view of weave room, Ware Mfg. Co. Mill #4, Ware, MA
		Format: Black and white photograph
Box 4	Folder 1	Miscellaneous wool industry photographs
Box 4	Folder 1	Item 1: Shipping room, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Photo by John Farnum, Springfield Republican. Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts a view of the shipping room in the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers, Mass. The foreground contains closed and open (empty) crates. Further back in the room are packages on pallets that stretch deep into the background. There are windows on both sides of the room. The Palmer Mill was a cotton mill. Stamped on the reverse of the photo: "The Whittall Electric Co., Springfield, Mass." but it is unclear why. 24.5 x 18.75 cm.
Box 4	Folder 1	Item 2: Bale breakers, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Woodhead Photo Co. Inc., Commercial Photographers, 77 Worthington St., Springfield, Mass. Gelatin silver print, ca. February, 1922. Image depicts a view of bale breakers in the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers, Mass. The bale breaker is usually the first machine employed in processing raw cotton; it opens and tears apart the compressed cotton in the bale. Note the unwrapped bales of cotton next to the breaker in the center, on the left, and in the right foreground corner. The Palmer Mill was a cotton mill. 24.75 x 19.75 cm. Copy A.
Box 4	Folder 1	Item 3: Bale breakers, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Woodhead Photo Co. Inc., Commercial Photographers, 77 Worthington St., Springfield, Mass. Gelatin silver print, ca. February, 1922. Image depicts a view of bale breakers in the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers, Mass. The bale breaker is usually the first machine employed in processing raw cotton; it opens and tears apart the compressed cotton in the bale. Note the unwrapped bales of cotton next to the breaker in the center, on the left, and in the right foreground corner. The Palmer Mill was a cotton mill. 24.75 x 20 cm. Copy B.
Box 4	Folder 2	Exterior scenes
Box 4	Folder 2	Item 1: Rear view of two-family house for Palmer Mill workers, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts a two-family house built (presumably) for workers at the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass. The house is a substantial two-and-a-half stories, of clapboard construction, and has two back porches. The back porch of another house can be glimpsed in the right background. The tree in the front yard (the left background in this photo) is bare; probably taken in late winter or early spring. See Folder 2, Item 7, in this box, for the front view of a house in a very similar style, although probably not this exact house. 25 x 19 cm.
Box 4	Folder 2	Item 2: View of two-family worker housing from the rear, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts the rear view of a house built (presumably) for workers at the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass. House is a duplex or two-family (two porches) and is a substantial two-and-a-half story clapboard building. Snow in the yard; some construction debris still in the yard. A young child stands on one of the porches where a piece of laundry hangs. See Folder 4, Item 2, in this box, for a view of the front of this house. 25 x 19 cm.
Box 4	Folder 2	Item 3: View of four-family worker housing from rear, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts a house built (presumably) for workers at the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass. House is two stories, of clapboard construction, and has four apartments (this is clear from the four very narrow front porches on this building seen from the front in Folder 4, Item 1, in this box). House has two chimneys and two porches in the rear, upstairs and downstairs, that appear to be shared by all four apartments. Two men can barely be seen in the open doorway on the far left upstairs. See Folder 4, Item 1, in this box, for a view of this house from the front. 25 x 19 cm.
Box 4	Folder 2	Item 4: View of stands at athletic field, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		View of stands at athletic field, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass. Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts stands under a roof at an athletic field in Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass. Possibly built by or sponsored by the Palmer Mill. Snow on the field in the foreground. See Folder 3, Item 2, in this box, for a slightly different angle of the same stands. 25 x 19 cm.
Box 4	Folder 2	Item 5: View of single-story brick building under construction, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		View of single- story brick building under construction, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass. Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts a single-story brick building, presumably belonging to the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers, Mass. The building is apparently not finished; there is a ladder up against the side of the building and piping stacked in front. There is also construction debris on the ground, covered with snow. The use of the building is unknown; there are two sets of double doors (open in this photo), but they are not wide enough to accommodate an automobile or truck. See Folder 3, Item 3, in this box, for another view of this building, where it appears a little more finished. 25 x 19 cm.
Box 4	Folder 2	Item 6: Street of houses for workers, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts a street of houses for workers of the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass. Unlike some other photographs of Palmer Mill housing, this street contains a long line of identical houses: two stories with an attic gable and an open front porch with two entrance doors. (Some of the porches have one set of steps; some have two.) These houses appear to be fairly close together and have small front yards. A small child stands in the front yard of the third house from the left and another small child stands in the street to the far right. There are three electric poles along the street. 25 x 19 cm.
Box 4	Folder 2	Item 7: Two-family house for Palmer Mill workers, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts a two-family house built (presumably) for workers at the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass. The house is a substantial two-and-a-half stories, of clapboard construction, and has two sets of steps leading to two entrance doors on the front porch which extends the length of the house in front. There is a tree in the front yard and snow on the ground. See Folder 4, Item 6, in this box, for another view of what appears to be the same house but taken from a different angle. 25 x 20 cm.
Box 4	Folder 3	Three Miscellaneous exterior scenes
Box 4	Folder 3	Item 1: Street of workers houses, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Robert. L. Geer, Photographer, Three Rivers, Mass., Box 222. Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts a street of houses for workers at the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass. The style is identical, a hip-roof, two-story, two-family house with an open porch in the front and two entrances on each. The only difference is the treatment of the front porch: the house in the right foreground has two sets of steps leading to the porch; the house to the left of that has one; the house beyond that has two; etc. See Item 15, in this folder, for a view of this same street in winter. 24.5 x 9.5 cm.
Box 4	Folder 3	Item 2: View of stands at athletic field, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts stands under a roof at an athletic field in Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass. Possibly built by or sponsored by the Palmer Mill. Snow on the field in the foreground and on the open benches on the right. See Folder 2, Item 4, in this box, for a slightly different angle of the same stands. 25 x 19 cm.
Box 4	Folder 3	Item 3: View of single-story brick building, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts a single-story brick building, presumably belonging to the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers, Mass. The use of the building is unknown; there are two sets of double doors, but not wide enough to accommodate an automobile or truck. There is building debris piled up in front of the building on the left. See Folder 2, Item 5, in this box, for another view of this building. 25 x 19 cm.
Box 4	Folder 4	Eight Miscellaneous exterior photos
Box 4	Folder 4	Item 1: View of four-family worker housing near completion, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts a house built (presumably) for workers at the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass. House is two stories, of clapboard construction, and has four apartments, judging by the four very narrow front porches. House is not quite complete; construction debris and rocks in the front yard; note the construction machine on the right. Someone can be seen in the open doorway, second from the left. See Folder 2, Item 3, in this box, for a view of this house from the rear. 25 x 19 cm.
Box 4	Folder 4	Item 2: View of two-family worker housing, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts a house built (presumably) for workers at the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass. House is a duplex or two-family (two entrances) and is a substantial two-and-a-half story clapboard building. Snow in the front yard and on the roof. This house has larger living spaces than the one seen in Item 1, in this folder; perhaps this one was built for overseers or supervisors? See Folder 2, Item 2, in this box, for a view of the back of this house. 25 x 19 cm.
Box 4	Folder 4	Item 3: View of two workers' houses, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts two houses built (presumably) for workers at the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass. The house in in the right foreground is a substantial duplex or two-family, with two front porches and two chimneys. The house to the left is also possibly a duplex, as there appears to be two sets of stairs leading to the front porch. Both houses are clapboard construction. Photograph taken in winter; snow is on the ground in the foreground. These houses have larger living spaces than the one seen in Item 1, in this folder; perhaps built for overseers or supervisors? 25 x 19 cm.
Box 4	Folder 4	Item 4: Two-family worker housing, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts a duplex or two-family home built (presumably) for workers at the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass. The house is two stories, of clapboard construction, and has two entrances on the wide front porch. A tree grows in the front yard, and there is an electric light pole in the left foreground. Photograph taken in winter; snow is on the ground in the foreground. This house has larger living spaces than the one seen in Item 1, in this folder; perhaps built for overseers or supervisors? 25 x 19 cm.
Box 4	Folder 4	Item 5: Four-family worker housing, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts a house built (presumably) for workers at the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass. The house is two stories, of clapboard construction, and has two porches upstairs and downstairs on each corner, plus two more entrances through the downstairs porch in the middle of the house, which are presumed to lead to the two upstairs apartments. Trees grow in the front and side yards; as they are bare, the photograph was probably taken during the winter. There is some debris in the yard; the house may just have been constructed. A brick mill building can be seen in the right background. 24.75 x 20 cm.
Box 4	Folder 4	Item 6: Two-family house for Palmer Mill workers, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts a two-family house built (presumably) for workers at the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass. The house is a substantial two-and-a-half stories, of clapboard construction, and has two sets of steps leading to two entrance doors on the front porch which extends the length of the house in front. The house is built on a hill; there is a long set of steps leading up to the house. Two trees (one completely bare) are in the front yard. Another tree has been cut down; note the stump in the yard. See Folder 2, Item 7, in this box, for another view of what appears to be the same house. 25 x 19 cm.
Box 4	Folder 4	Item 7: Worker housing seen from the rear, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts several houses built (presumably) for workers at the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass., as seen from the back yards. there is lumber debris piled high in the foreground with a number of large rocks (moved by construction?) as well. The house in the center is of gambrel-type construction and appears to have two back porches, plus a side porch. The house behind it, to the right, also appears to have two back entrances. There is laundry hanging in the back yard of that house. A third house can be seen behind that second one, in the right background. All of the houses are of clapboard construction. See Item 8, in this folder, for a front view of the house in the foreground. 25 x 19 cm.
Box 4	Folder 4	Item 8: Gambrel-style two-family worker housing, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts the view from the front of a house built (presumably) for workers at the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass. This is the same house seen in Item 7, in this folder, (from the rear). House is of a gambrel-style two-family with two entrances in the front and a porch on each side. The house is of clapboard construction. There is debris and rocks in the front yard; it is possible construction has just finished. 25 x 18.75 cm.
Box 4	Folder 5	Palmer Mill
Box 4	Folder 5	Item 1: New office, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts the new office of the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass. Building is one-story brick with entrances in the front and on the side. Basement windows can be seen. Picket fence on either side of the building; one of the larger mill buildings is to the left and behind the office building. "Palmer Mill" is inscribed on the concrete above the front door. An electric pole stands on the street directly in front of the building. Date of construction of building is unknown. 23 x 18 cm. Copy B.
Box 4	Folder 5	Item 2: Pay window, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1900-1915. Interior view of the building containing the pay window for the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass. Building is wooden; windows are at the rear and on the right side. Pay window has iron grate across the counter; similar to a bank teller. Note the light fixture hanging from the ceiling in the center with two bulbs in it. Central Vermont Railway Co. timetable hanging on the wall on the left. 23 x 18 cm.
Box 4	Folder 5	Item 3: View of original school near Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1900-1915. Image depicts the new school near the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass. School is two-and-a-half story clapboard building in the center of the photo. The new school is visible on the left in the background, a two-story building of brick or stone. On the right is a boarding house for the Palmer Mill. Trees are bare; photograph probably taken in winter. 23 x 18 cm.
Box 4	Folder 5	Item 4: View of conference room, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1900-1915. Image depicts a conference room in the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass. Room holds a polished wooden table in the center with seven armchairs around it. Another, smaller table is in the back corner. Room has large windows partially or completely covered with window shades. Two steam radiators against the walls. The floor is wooden. One globe light fixture hangs from the ceiling. It is possible this room is in the new office building seen in Item 1, in this folder. 23 x 18 cm.
Box 4	Folder 5	Item 5: Agent's office, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1910. Image depicts a view of the agent's office in the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers, Mass. Office contains a large wooden table in the center with two chairs around it, and two telephones on it (just barely visible against the radiator). There is a desk against the far wall in the background, with some sort of trophy on the top edge of the desk. Two more chairs are against the walls in the back and to the left. The room has two steam radiators; there are two framed items on the wall. There is either a carpet or some sort of patterned flooring covering most of the floor. It is possible this room is in the new office building seen in Item 1, in this folder. 23 x 18 cm.
Box 4	Folder 5	Item 6: Spooler and warper room, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts a very large room in the Palmer Mill filled with spoolers and warpers. Note the fire buckets hanging on the poles in the left center. "Publications GE Bureau" stamp on lower left edge may indicate this photo was produced by General Electric for marketing or advertising purposes. 26 x 19.5 cm.
Box 4	Folder 5	Item 7: 40" Ball warpers, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts two 40" ball warpers, individually driven by 3/4 hp, 1800 rpm, slip ring motors in the Palmer Mill, Three Rivers, Mass. A ball warper is a machine for winding off yarn from a large number of packages and coiling it as a loose rope into a ball. The ball warpers here, one on each side of the aisle, pull from the packages behind them, and coil the yarn into a large ball in the front of the warper. "Publications GE Bureau" stamp on lower left edge and the information about the motors may indicate this photo was produced by General Electric for marketing or advertising purposes. See Item 8, in this folder, for another view of a ball warper. 25.5 x 19.5 cm.
Box 4	Folder 5	Item 8: Close-up view of 40" ball warper, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts a closer view (see Item 7, in this folder, for a wider angle) of a 40" ball warper, individually driven by 3/4 hp, 1800 rpm, slip ring motors in the Palmer Mill, Three Rivers, Mass. A ball warper is a machine for winding off yarn from a large number of packages and coiling it as a loose rope into a ball. The ball warper seen here is pulling from the packages behind it, which cannot be seen in the photo. "Publications GE Bureau" stamp on lower left edge and the information about the motors may indicate this photo was produced by General Electric for marketing or advertising purposes. 26 x 19.5 cm.
Box 4	Folder 5	Item 9: 40" beam warpers, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts two 40" beam warpers, individually driven by 3/4 hp, 1800 rpm, slip ring motors in the Palmer Mill, Three Rivers, Mass. A beam warper is placed in front of a V-shaped creel that contains the packages of yarn. The warper winds numerous threads in parallel order onto a beam. In this image, the warper on the left has had the metal cover lowered so the wheel can be seen. "Publications GE Bureau" stamp on lower left edge and the information about the motors may indicate this photo was produced by General Electric for marketing or advertising purposes. 25.5 x 19.5 cm.
Box 4	Folder 6	Looms
Box 4	Folder 6	Item 1: View of wide Jacquard looms, Otis Company, Ware, Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1910. Image depicts a view of wide Jacquard looms in use at the Otis Company in Ware, Mass. The Otis Company produced cotton and knit goods. 19 x 24 cm.
Box 4	Folder 6	Item 2: View of automatic dobby looms, Otis Company, Ware, Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1910. Image depicts a large room filled with automatic dobby looms in use at the Otis Company in Ware, Mass. The Otis Company produced cotton and knit goods. 19 x 24 cm.
Box 4	Folder 6	Item 3: View of mill yard of the Otis Company, Ware, Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1915. Image shows the mill yard of the Otis Company in Ware, Mass. Yard is filled with trees and ornamental bushes; flower beds line a walkway in the foreground. The mill tower in the center background is part of Mill #1, which can partially be seen behind the trees in the right background. See Box 3, Folder 4, Item 7, in this collection, for approximately the same view but probably of an earlier date; the plantings seem much more advanced in this image. 24.5 x 19 cm.
Box 4	Folder 6	Item 4: Exterior view of the counting room of the Otis Company, Ware, Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1915. Image shows an exterior view of the counting room of the Otis Company in Ware, Mass. Building is two stories, covered with ivy. A larger mill building with two towers lies behind the counting room. Counting room building has a picket fence that stretches down the street in the background. Large trees in the foreground on the right; several men can be seen standing at the very right of the image. The large granite post in the center right foreground has a date on it of either 1873 or 1878. 24 x 18 cm.
Box 4	Folder 6	Item 5: View of yard and back of counting room, Otis Company, Ware, Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1915. Image depicts a yard with several large, leafy trees and bushes at the Otis Company in Ware, Mass. The building seen somewhat hidden in the background is the counting room. The Otis Company produced cotton and knit goods. Photograph is badly overexposed. Copy A. 24 x 18.5 cm.
Box 4	Folder 6	Item 6: View of yard and back of counting room, Otis Company, Ware, Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1915. Image depicts a yard with several large, leafy trees and bushes at the Otis Company in Ware, Mass. The building seen somewhat hidden in the background is the counting room. The Otis Company produced cotton and knit goods. Photograph is badly overexposed. Copy B. 24 x 18.5 cm.
Box 4	Folder 7	Eighteen Miscellaneous photos
Box 4	Folder 7	Item 1: Open dye kettle, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Woodhead Photo Co. Inc., Commercial Photographers, 77 Worthington St., Springfield, Mass. Gelatin silver print, ca. February, 1922. Image depicts an open dye kettle at the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass. A warp beam is about to be lowered into the kettle; several others stand to the left. The Palmer Mill was a cotton mill. See Folder 8, Item 22, in this box, for a broader picture of the room with several closed dye kettles. 19.5 x 12.5 cm.
Box 4	Folder 7	Item 2: View of roving frames, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Woodhead Photo Co. Inc., Commercial Photographers, 77 Worthington St., Springfield, Mass. Gelatin silver print, ca. February, 1922. Image depicts a view down an aisle of roving frames in the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers, Mass. Roving is the process by which the size of the yarn is reduced, evened, and a twist added. At the end of the aisle in the background is a carding machine. 19 x 11.75 cm. Copy A.
Box 4	Folder 7	Item 3: Dye kettle in Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Woodhead Photo Co. Inc., Commercial Photographers, 77 Worthington St., Springfield, Mass. Gelatin silver print, ca. February, 1922. Image depicts a dye kettle in the Palmer Mill with its lid raised. Another dye kettle is visible on the right. 19.5 x 12 cm.
Box 4	Folder 7	Item 4: View of roving frames, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Woodhead Photo Co. Inc., Commercial Photographers, 77 Worthington St., Springfield, Mass. Gelatin silver print, ca. February, 1922. Image depicts a view down an aisle of roving frames in the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers, Mass. Roving is the process by which the size of the yarn is reduced, evened, and a twist added. At the end of the aisle in the background is a carding machine. 19 x 11.5 cm. Copy B.
Box 4	Folder 7	Item 5: Nurse's office (?), Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Woodhead Photo Co. Inc., Commercial Photographers, 77 Worthington St., Springfield, Mass. Gelatin silver print, ca. February, 1922. Image depicts a view of what appears to be a nurse's office in the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers, Mass. The cabinet on the left holds bottles and instruments of some sort; there is a scale to the right of that cabinet. The table in the right background also holds bottles of some sort, and there is a sink to the right. The table to the right of the open door holds either a coffeepot or something to hold hot water perhaps. An electric fan is attached high on the wall to the right of the door. 19.5 x 12 cm.
Box 4	Folder 7	Item 6: Broad view of spinning frames, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Woodhead Photo Co. Inc., Commercial Photographers, 77 Worthington St., Springfield, Mass. Gelatin silver print, ca. February, 1922. Image depicts a broad view of a room of spinning frames in the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers, Mass. The larger bobbins on the top contain the roving, which is being spun onto the smaller bobbins on the bottom. See Folder 8, Item 23, in this box, for a closer view of a spinning frame. The Palmer Mill was a cotton mill. 19.75 x 12.5 cm.
Box 4	Folder 7	Item 7: Warpers, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts a view of a room of warpers in the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers, Mass. The warpers draw from the creels behind them. Row of large windows on the right. The Palmer Mill was a cotton mill. 20 x 12.75 cm.
Box 4	Folder 7	Item 8: Female employee warping at Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Woodhead Photo Co., Inc., Commercial Photographers, 77 Worthington St., Springfield, Mass. Gelatin silver print, ca. February, 1922. Image depicts a female worker at the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers, Mass., warping. Worker is pulling the warp through the reed. Photograph is badly overexposed. 14 x 8.5 cm.
Box 4	Folder 7	Item 9: Male worker at Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. mid-20th century. Image depicts a male worker at the Palmer Mill, working on what appears to be a lathe. Possibly part of the machine shop at the mill? Man is dressed in a shirt and tie, with a work apron over his clothes. 15 x 9.75 cm.
Box 4	Folder 7	Item 10: Female worker at spinning machinery, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Robert. L. Geer, Photographer, Three Rivers, Mass., Box 222. Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts a female worker at the Palmer Mill, working at a spinning machine. She wears dark clothing with an apron tied around her waist and dark hair pulled back into a bun of sorts. She appears to be in her 40s. 11 x 11cm.
Box 4	Folder 7	Item 11: Male worker at loom, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts a male worker at a loom in the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers, Mass. The material being woven is a check pattern. 10.75 x 15 cm.
Box 4	Folder 7	Item 12: Female workers making samples, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts several female workers in an office-type setting (as opposed to the factory floor), making or organizing samples that would be sent out to prospective customers or salesmen. There are large bunches of materials on the shelves on the right; on the table in front of the women are batches of smaller samples. A man and a woman sit at a desk in the rear; the man wears a straw boater and a bow tie; he may be an overseer but more likely a salesman? Overseers would not wear hats indoors. 17.5 x 12.5 cm.
Box 4	Folder 7	Item 13: Finishing machine, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Woodhead Photo Co. Inc., Commercial Photographers, 77 Worthington St., Springfield, Mass. Gelatin silver print, ca. February, 1922. Image depicts a male employee operating a finishing machine at the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass. The finishing machine is pulling the cloth from the wooden bin on the left through rollers on the machine. Another machine can be seen on the left. The male employee wears overalls (with deep cuffs) over his shirt. The Palmer Mill was a cotton mill. 19.5 x 12 cm.
Box 4	Folder 7	Item 14: Winding fabric onto rolls, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Woodhead Photo Co. Inc., Commercial Photographers, 77 Worthington St., Springfield, Mass. Gelatin silver print, ca. February, 1922. Image depicts male employees engaged in the process of winding fabric onto rolls at the Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass. It is not clear exactly what part of the manufacturing process this is. The Palmer Mill was a cotton mill. 19.25 x 12.25 cm.
Box 4	Folder 7	Item 15: Interior view of packing room (?) at Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Woodhead Photo Co. Inc., Commercial Photographers, 77 Worthington St., Springfield, Mass. Gelatin silver print, ca. February, 1922. Image depicts a view of what may be the packing room at the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass. While some cloth appears to be draped over tables or wooden bins in the foreground, bolts or packages of cloth can be seen in the middle aisle and in the left rear. In the deep left background, the bolts of cloth appear to be wrapped in paper prior to shipping. In the center left background, two women sit behind a desk, on which an adding machine can be seen. The Palmer Mill produced cotton cloth. 19.5 x 12 cm.
Box 4	Folder 7	Item 16: Winding fabric into rolls, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Woodhead Photo Co. Inc., Commercial Photographers, 77 Worthington St., Springfield, Mass. Gelatin silver print, ca. February, 1922. Image depicts two male employees engaged in winding fabric into rolls at the Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass. The large pile of fabric in the center is apparently being put through the machine and wound into large rolls, which are stacked to the right of the machine and in the foreground. It is unclear what part of the manufacturing process this is, but the material is apparently being rolled for another process. The Palmer Mill produced cotton cloth. 19.5 x 12.25 cm.
Box 4	Folder 7	Item 17: Rip-tick loom, Thorndike Company, West Warren (Warren), Mass.	1927
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Geo. T. (?) Warfield, photographer. Gelatin silver print, July 30, 1927. Image depicts a rip-tick loom at the Thorndike Company in West Warren, Mass. The Thorndike Company produced both cotton and woolen goods. See Item 18, in this folder, for another view of this loom. 18 x 12.5 cm.
Box 4	Folder 7	Item 18: Another view of a rip-tick loom, Thorndike Company, West Warren (Warren), Mass.	1927
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Geo. T. (?) Warfield, photographer. Gelatin silver print, July 30, 1927. Image depicts a rip-tick loom at the Thorndike Company in West Warren, Mass. The Thorndike Company produced both cotton and woolen goods. See Item 17, in this folder, for a different view of this loom. 18 x 12.5 cm.
Box 4	Folder 8	Twenty-four Miscellaneous photos
Box 4	Folder 8	Item 1: Street of workers houses, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Woodhead Photo Co. Inc., Commercial Photographers, 77 Worthington St., Springfield, Mass. Gelatin silver print, ca. February, 1922. Image depicts a street of houses for workers at the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass. The style is identical, a hip-roof, two-story, two-family house with an open porch in the front and two entrances on each. Photograph taken in the winter; snow is on the ground and the roofs of the houses. Street has been plowed. 19 x 12.5 cm. Copy C.
Box 4	Folder 8	Item 2: View of the Palmer Mill complex, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts a view of the Palmer Mill complex, taken from some distance away. The complex is dominated by a large smokestack in the center of the photo, but the largest building is on the right. Open ground in the foreground broken up by a low stone wall that stretches across the ground. 12 x 10.5 cm.
Box 4	Folder 8	Item 3: View of the Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts a view of the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers. The mill building is on the left, a three-and-a-half story brick building with a four-story tower in the center. A two-and-a-half story brick building crosses it at a 90-degree angle with a three-story tower in front, topped by a chimney. Another two-story clapboard building is on the right, forming a small courtyard between the three buildings. A picket fence surrounds the property and there is open space in the foreground. 12.5 x 10 cm.
Box 4	Folder 8	Item 4: Bell on the Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts the bell which is believed to have been placed on the top of the four-story tower of the main mill building; see Item 3, in this folder, for a view of the building. The bell is set into a wooden frame; there appears to be snow on the frame on the left, which would be consistent with many of the images of the Palmer mill that are part of this collection, taken in winter with snow on the ground. 11 x 12.5 cm.
Box 4	Folder 8	Item 5: Exterior view (from end) of Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts one of the Palmer Mill buildings from the end, showing a four-story brick building; a one-story extension can just be glimpsed in the right foreground. Taken from the roof of another building? Some sort of scaffolding is barely visible against the building in the left background. A closer view of this building (see Item 12, in this folder) reveals that the one-story extension is actually two stories, making the entire building five stories in all. See Item 8, in this folder, for a wide-angle view of this building. The Palmer Mill was a cotton mill. 8.25 x 14 cm.
Box 4	Folder 8	Item 6: Palmer Mill and the Chicopee River, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.	1900
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, Feb. 22, 1900. Image depicts one of the Palmer Mill buildings as seen from across the Chicopee River. Building is three stories, of brick; there appears to be a railroad platform in front of the building just above the river (note the railroad car to the left). There is a tall smokestack in the rear of the building on the left. Note that the riverbank on the right between the railroad platform and the river has washed away. The Palmer Mill was a cotton mill. 12.75 x 10 cm.
Box 4	Folder 8	Item 7: Moving crates across the Chicopee River, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Woodhead Photo Co. Inc., Commercial Photographers, 77 Worthington St., Springfield, Mass. Gelatin silver print, ca. February, 1922. Image depicts a crate being moved by a pulley across the Chicopee River. One of the Palmer Mill buildings is in the background. The river cannot be seen in this photograph but would be below the bottom edge of the photo. See Folder 9, Item 17, in this box, for a different and wider angle view of this operation. 13.5 x 8.5 cm.
Box 4	Folder 8	Item 8: Exterior view (from end) of Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts one of the Palmer Mill buildings from the end, showing what appears to be a three-story brick building with a one-story extension in the foreground. Taken from the roof of another building? Some sort of scaffolding is barely visible against the building in the left background. A closer view of this building (see Item 12, in this folder) reveals that the one-story extension is actually two stories, making the entire building five stories in all. See also Item 5, in this folder for another view of this building. The Palmer Mill was a cotton mill. 15 x 9.5 cm.
Box 4	Folder 8	Item 9: Palmer Mill buildings from the rear (?), Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts an exterior view of some Palmer Mill buildings, possibly from the rear. There appears to be a crane hoisting a large ball in the air (?). Lots of bushes in the foreground. 14 x 8 cm.
Box 4	Folder 8	Item 10: View of Palmer Mill from above, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts a view of the Palmer Mill from above, probably from a tower on another building. In the center is a two-and-a-half story brick building; there appears to be construction debris piled up outside the windows. There is a sliver of the Chicopee River beyond the roof of the building in the center; across the river on the left is the building seen in Item 7, in this folder, and Folder 9, Item 17, in this box, from which crates were moved across the river by pulleys. Two men, probably construction workers, can be seen in the lower center of the photo. 8 x 14 cm.
Box 4	Folder 8	Item 11: Two construction workers on rigging platform outside the Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts two construction workers on rigging platform outside the top floor of the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers, Mass. They are posing for the camera. Note that the rigging they are sitting on is nothing more than some boards laid across ladders. This is the same building seen in Items 5, 8, and 12, in this folder. 8.5 x 14.5 cm.
Box 4	Folder 8	Item 12: Closer view of exterior (end view) of Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts one of the Palmer Mill buildings from the end, showing a five-story brick building with a two-story extension in the foreground. Scaffolding is visible against the building on the left. See Item 8, in this folder, for a wider angle of this view, and Item 8, in this folder, for another view of this building. The Palmer Mill was a cotton mill. 8.5 x 14 cm.
Box 4	Folder 8	Item 13: Palmer Mill workers manipulate penstock into Chicopee River, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts two workers moving penstock into the Chicopee River outside the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers, Mass., using a series of ropes. A penstock is a covered pipe that delivers water to hydro turbines and sewerage systems. 8 x 13 cm. Copy A.
Box 4	Folder 8	Item 14: Penstock of the Palmer Mill in Chicopee River, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts a penstock of the Palmer Mill in the Chicopee River in Three Rivers, Mass. Several workers stand on the riverbank in the background, having moved the penstock into the river; two more appear to be standing on it. A penstock is a covered pipe that delivers water to hydro turbines and sewerage systems. 9 x 14.5 cm.
Box 4	Folder 8	Item 15: Palmer Mill workers manipulate penstock into Chicopee River, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts two workers moving penstock into the Chicopee River outside the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers, Mass., using a series of ropes. A penstock is a covered pipe that delivers water to hydro turbines and sewerage systems. 10.5 x 16.5 cm. Copy B.
Box 4	Folder 8	Item 16: Loom in the Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Woodhead Photo Co. Inc., Commercial Photographers, 77 Worthington St., Springfield, Mass. Gelatin silver print, ca. February, 1922. Image depicts a loom in the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass. The loom is being fed by a warp beam behind it; the loom was made in Lowell, Mass., either by the Lowell Machine Shop or the Kitson Machine Shop. See Item 17, in this folder, for a view of this loom from the rear. 14 x 8.5 cm.
Box 4	Folder 8	Item 17: Rear view of loom in the Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Woodhead Photo Co. Inc., Commercial Photographers, 77 Worthington St., Springfield, Mass. Gelatin silver print, ca. February, 1922. Image depicts a loom in the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass., as seen from the rear. The loom is being fed by a warp beam. See Item 16, in this folder, for a view of this loom from the front; the loom was made in Lowell, Mass., either by the Lowell Machine Shop or the Kitson Machine Shop. 14 x 8.5 cm.
Box 4	Folder 8	Item 18: Side view of loom in the Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Woodhead Photo Co. Inc., Commercial Photographers, 77 Worthington St., Springfield, Mass. Gelatin silver print, ca. February, 1922. Image depicts a view of a loom in the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass., as seen from the side. This does not appear to be the same loom as seen in Items 16 and 17, in this folder. Two male workers are somewhat visible in the left rear. 13.5 x 8.5 cm.
Box 4	Folder 8	Item 19: Bales of cotton, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Woodhead Photo Co. Inc., Commercial Photographers, 77 Worthington St., Springfield, Mass. Gelatin silver print, ca. February, 1922. Image depicts a view of bales of cotton in the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass. Some bales are stacked vertically; others have fallen to the side. The pile on the left could be the netting that has been removed from the bales. 13.5 x 8.5 cm.
Box 4	Folder 8	Item 20: Winding operation, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts a view of a winding operation in the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass. The thread (or yarn) on the larger packages is being wound onto smaller bobbins which, once filled, will be placed in the wooden crates on the floor. The Palmer Mill was a cotton mill. 14 x 8.5 cm.
Box 4	Folder 8	Item 21: Throstle spinning, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts a view of a throstle spinning operation in the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass. Spinning with a throstle became pretty much obsolete by the 1940s. The Palmer Mill was a cotton mill. 13.5 x 8.5 cm.
Box 4	Folder 8	Item 22: Interior view of Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass., with dye kettles
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Robert. L. Geer, Photographer, Box 222, Three Rivers, Mass. Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts an interior view of a large room at the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass., showing three large dye kettles with covers. One male employee is barely visible on the right in the background. See Folder 7, Item 1, in this box, for a view of an open kettle. 16.5 x 10.75 cm.
Box 4	Folder 8	Item 23: View of spinning frame, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts a view of a spinning frame at the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass. The larger bobbins on the upper half of the frame contain the roving, which is being spun onto the smaller bobbins down below. See Folder 7, Item 6, in this box, for a wider angle of these spinning frames. The Palmer Mill was a cotton mill. 18 x 12.75 cm.
Box 4	Folder 8	Item 24: Interior view of Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass., with warp beam
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Woodhead Photo Co. Inc., Commercial Photographers, 77 Worthington St., Springfield, Mass. Gelatin silver print, ca. February, 1922. Image depicts a warp beam at the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass. The Palmer Mill was a cotton mill. 19.5 x 12.5 cm.
Box 4	Folder 9	Nineteen Miscellaneous photos
Box 4	Folder 9	Item 1: Company truck outside the Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Mass. Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts a company truck of the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers, Mass., seen here outside the mill (?). The truck cab is open (no windows); a truck driver is seated in the cab. This is possibly the same truck as the dump truck seen in Folder 10, Item 10, in this box. 14 x 8 cm.
Box 4	Folder 9	Item 2: Company truck, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.	1921
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print. Image depicts a company truck of the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers, Mass., seen here outside the mill (?). See Folder 10, Item 7, in this box, for a similar truck with the Palmer Mill sign on its boards; the truck here has a completely open flatbed. License reads "B40 466 Mass. 1921." 15 x 9 cm. Copy C.
Box 4	Folder 9	Item 3: Company truck, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.	1921
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print. Image depicts a company truck of the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers, Mass., seen here outside the mill (?). See Folder 10, Item 7, in this box, for a similar truck with the Palmer Mill sign on its boards; the truck here has a completely open flatbed. License reads "B40 466 Mass. 1921." 15 x 9 cm. Copy D.
Box 4	Folder 9	Item 4: Company truck loaded with furniture, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts a company truck of the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers, Mass., seen here loaded with furniture, with five men posed on or around the truck. The truck cab is open (no windows) and the bed of the truck is open as well. The man seated in the center (with the dark hair) appears to be one of the men seen in Folder 10, Item 8, in this box. See Item 5, in this folder, for a halftone made from this photograph, possibly for publication purposes. 14 x 8 cm.
Box 4	Folder 9	Item 5: Company truck loaded with furniture, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Halftone, ca. 1920. Image depicts a company truck of the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers, Mass., seen here loaded with furniture, with five men posed on or around the truck. The truck cab is open (no windows) and the bed of the truck is open as well. The man seated in the center (with the dark hair) appears to be one of the men seen in Folder 10, Item 8, in this box. See Item 4, in this folder, for the original photograph from which this halftone was made. 13.5 x 10 cm.
Box 4	Folder 9	Item 6: Two images of company horses, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver prints, ca. 1900-1910. Two images glued to the same support show the company horses of the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers, Mass. The two horses are pulling a wagon or cart, on which two men ride. The two images, although taken at the same time, are not identical. 8.5 x 13 cm. (44-A); 9.5 x 6 cm. (44-B).
Box 4	Folder 9	Item 7: View of Chicopee River in Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts a view of the Chicopee River, one of three rivers in Three Rivers, a village in the town of Palmer, Mass. The Ware River joins the Quaboag River to form the Chicopee River in Three Rivers. Note the crate being moved across the river by pulleys on a wire between buildings belonging to the Palmer Mill. One of the mill buildings is visible on the left. 12.5 x 11 cm. Copy A.
Box 4	Folder 9	Item 8: View of house under construction belonging to the Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts a two-story house under construction, belonging to the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers, Mass. The house has two one-story wings on either side and has been framed and roofed, but the front porch stairs have yet to be added. There is scaffolding at the front entrance and a ladder leaning against the wing on the right. An open flatbed truck or car is in the front yard on the right; the vehicle has no cab at all but is completely open. The house appears substantial enough to be for the use of management, rather than for mill workers. See Item 14, in this folder, for another, very similar view of this house. 15 x 9 cm.
Box 4	Folder 9	Item 9: View of houses in winter, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts a view down a street of houses that apparently belonged to the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers, Mass. These houses were most likely constructed for mill workers; the houses on the left are duplexes. The houses on the right are a different style and have porches, but may also be duplexes as well. There is heavy snow on the ground; a path has been shoveled on the right. The end of the street is open with trees on a hillside beyond in the background. 17.5 x 12.5 cm.
Box 4	Folder 9	Item 10: Boardinghouse or rooming house, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1924-1926. Image depicts a three-story building with a mansard roof and four chimneys. Given the single entrance and the fire escape on the side, this is tentatively identified as a boardinghouse or rooming house for workers at the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass. The building appears to have two identical wings attached in the middle. The wing on the right, somewhat in the background, has an open porch, as does the section in the center linking the two. There is an electric pole on the street on the right, and a woman walking along the sidewalk. A man can be seen at the left in front of the house. See Item 11 and 12, in this folder, for a closer but blurrier view of this building. 10.5 x 6 cm.
Box 4	Folder 9	Item 11: Boardinghouse or rooming house, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		ca. 1907-1915. Image depicts a three-story building with a mansard roof and four chimneys. Given the single entrance and the fire escape on the side, this is tentatively identified as a boardinghouse or rooming house for workers at the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass. The building has another wing attached to it which is barely visible on the right. See Item 10, in this folder, for a clearer picture of this building. 13.75 x 8.5 cm. Copy A.
Box 4	Folder 9	Item 12: Boardinghouse or rooming house, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		ca. 1907-1915. Image depicts a three-story building with a mansard roof and four chimneys. Given the single entrance and the fire escape on the side, this is tentatively identified as a boardinghouse or rooming house for workers at the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass. The building has another wing attached to it which is barely visible on the right. See Item 10, in this folder, for a clearer picture of this building. 13.75 x 8.5 cm. Copy B.
Box 4	Folder 9	Item 13: Street of workers houses, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Woodhead Photo Co. Inc., Commercial Photographers, 77 Worthington St., Springfield, Mass. Gelatin silver print, ca. February, 1922. Image depicts a street of houses for workers at the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass. The style is identical, a hip-roof, two-story, two-family house with an open porch in the front and two entrances on each. Photograph taken in the winter; snow is on the ground and the roofs of the houses. Street has been plowed. 18 x 10.25 cm. Copy A.
Box 4	Folder 9	Item 14: View of house under construction belonging to the Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts a two-story house under construction, belonging to the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers, Mass. The house has two one-story wings on either side and has been framed and roofed, but the front porch stairs have yet to be added. There is scaffolding at the front entrance and a ladder leaning against the wing on the right. An open flatbed truck or car is in the front yard on the right; the vehicle has no cab at all but is completely open. The house appears substantial enough to be for the use of management, rather than for mill workers. See Item 8, in this folder, for another, very similar view of this house. 7.5 x 7.5 cm.
Box 4	Folder 9	Item 15: Street of workers houses, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer) , Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Woodhead Photo Co. Inc., Commercial Photographers, 77 Worthington St., Springfield, Mass. Gelatin silver print, ca. February, 1922. Image depicts a street of houses for workers at the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass. The style is identical, a hip-roof, two-story, two-family house with an open porch in the front and two entrances on each. Photograph taken in the winter; snow is on the ground and the roofs of the houses. Street has been plowed. See Item 14, in this folder, for this same street but without snow on the ground. 18 x 12.5 cm. Copy B.
Box 4	Folder 9	Item 16: View of mill buildings and railroad along river, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts view of a mill building in the background, along with railroad cars in front of it, with a river, probably the Chicopee River, in the foreground. There are a number of men working around the middle railroad car, in preparation for moving the penstock into the river. The mill building is a three-story brick building; it may be the same building seen in Item 17, in this folder. See Folder 8, Items 13 and 14, in this box, for more images of the penstock being moved into the river. 13 x 7.5 cm.
Box 4	Folder 9	Item 17: View of Chicopee River in Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts a view of the Chicopee River, one of three rivers in Three Rivers, a village in the town of Palmer, Mass. The Ware River joins the Quaboag River to form the Chicopee River in Three Rivers. Note the crate being moved across the river by pulleys on a wire between buildings belonging to the Palmer Mill. One of the mill buildings is visible on the left. See Folder 8, Item 7, in this box, for a more direct view of the crate and the mill building. 12.5 x 10 cm. Copy B.
Box 4	Folder 9	Item 18: Crate of apples grown in Belchertown, Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts a crate of apples grown and packed by E. A. Upham, Hillcrest Fruit Farm, Belchertown, Mass. The ribbon on the right corner of the crate reads in part: "Eastern States Exposition..Fruit Department Second Premium." A man wearing a hat is in the right background. 8 x 14 cm.
Box 4	Folder 9	Item 19: Three Rivers School building, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Woodhead Photo Co. Inc., Commercial Photographers, 77 Worthington St., Springfield, Mass. Gelatin silver print, ca. February, 1922. Image depicts a white clapboard, two-story building, built in an "L" shape with a tower in the center front. There is an entrance in the corner of the "L" and another entrance on the right front. An open porch can be seen on the right side. There is snow on the ground. The sign in the foreground reads "School Go Slow." 19.5 x 12 cm.
Box 4	Folder 10	Company Horses and Trucks
Box 4	Folder 10	Item 1: Company horses of the Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1910-1920. Image depicts two large draft (?) horses pulling an open flatbed cart; horses are being driven by a workman wearing overalls and a cap. A two-story brick mill building (the Palmer Mill?) is on the left. There is some snow on the ground on the left and the trees in the background are bare; photograph probably taken in late winter. See also Items 4 and 5, in this folder, for other views of these horses; "Palmer Mill" is stenciled on a box or crate underneath the driver's seat on the cart in Item 5, in this folder. 14 x 8.5 cm. Copy A.
Box 4	Folder 10	Item 2: Company horses of the Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1910-1920. Image depicts two large draft (?) horses pulling an open flatbed cart; horses are being driven by a workman wearing overalls and a cap. A two-story brick mill building (the Palmer Mill?) is on the left. There is some snow on the ground on the left and the trees in the background are bare; photograph probably taken in late winter. See also Items 4 and 5, in this folder, for other views of these horses; "Palmer Mill" is stenciled on a box or crate underneath the driver's seat on the cart in Item 5, in this folder. Copy B.
Box 4	Folder 10	Item 3: Company horses of the Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1910-1920. Image depicts two large draft (?) horses pulling an open flatbed cart; horses are being driven by a workman wearing overalls and a cap. A two-story brick mill building (the Palmer Mill?) is on the left. There is some snow on the ground on the left and the trees in the background are bare; photograph probably taken in late winter. See also Items 4 and 5, in this folder, for other views of these horses; "Palmer Mill" is stenciled on a box or crate underneath the driver's seat on the cart in Item 5, in this folder. Copy C.
Box 4	Folder 10	Item 4: Another view of company horses of the Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1910- 1920. Image depicts two large draft (?) horses pulling an open flatbed cart; horses are being driven by a workman wearing overalls and a cap. A two-story brick mill building (the Palmer Mill?) is in the background. See also Items 1 through 3 and 5, in this folder, for other views of these horses; "Palmer Mill" is stenciled on a box or crate underneath the driver's seat on the cart in Item 5, in this folder. 9 x 14.5 cm.
Box 4	Folder 10	Item 5: Side view of company horses of the Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1910- 1920. Image depicts two large draft (?) horses pulling an open flatbed cart; horses are being driven by a workman wearing overalls and a cap. A two-story brick mill building (the Palmer Mill?) is in the background. The cart is loaded with boxes; note "Palmer Mill" stenciled on the box or crate underneath the driver's seat. See also Items 1 through 4, in this folder, for other views of these horses. 14.5 x 9 cm.
Box 4	Folder 10	Item 6: Palmer Mill company truck with one employee, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts a Palmer Mill company truck with one male employee posed by the truck, presumably one of the truck drivers. The truck's cab has no windows on the sides, and the flatbed behind the cab is open. See Items 7 and 8, in this folder, for other views of the truck (the man seen here is in both of those photos as well). 15 x 8.5 cm.
Box 4	Folder 10	Item 7: Company truck with three employees, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts a Palmer Mill company truck (note the sign on the side of the truck behind the man on the left) with three male employees, presumably truck drivers. The truck's cab has no windows on the sides, and the flatbed behind the cab is open. See Items 6 and 8, in this folder, for other views of the truck (Item 8, in this folder, also includes the same three men seen here). 14 x 8.5 cm.
Box 4	Folder 10	Item 8: Three drivers posed on company truck, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts a Palmer Mill company truck with three male employees, presumably truck drivers, posed on the truck. The truck's cab has no windows on the sides, and the flatbed behind the cab (not visible here) is open. See Item 6, in this folder, for another view of the truck and the man seated here in the middle; see also Item 7, in this folder, for a better view of the truck (including a sign on the side of the truck "Palmer Mill") and these three men again posed at the truck. 8.25 x 14 cm.
Box 4	Folder 10	Item 9: Company truck, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.	1921
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print. Image depicts a company truck of the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers, Mass., seen here outside the mill (?). See Item 7, in this folder, for a similar truck with the Palmer Mill sign on its boards; the truck here has a completely open flatbed. License reads "B40 466 Mass. 1921." 14 x 8.25 cm. Copy A.
Box 4	Folder 10	Item 10: Company dump truck, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1920. Image depicts a company dump truck of the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers, Mass., seen here dumping dirt in an open area in front of the mill (in the background). A male employee stands behind the truck. The truck's cab is open with no windows and appears to be very similar to the truck seen in Folder 9, Item 1, in this box. Note the cars parked in front of the mill in the background on the left. 14 x 8 cm.
Box 4	Folder 10	Item 11: Company truck, Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.	1921
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print. Image depicts a company truck of the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers, Mass., seen here outside the mill (?). See Item 7, in this folder, for a similar truck with the Palmer Mill sign on its boards; the truck here has a completely open flatbed. License reads "B40 466 Mass. 1921." 14.5 x 9 cm. Copy B.
Box 4	Folder 11	Three Rivers, Mass. and Ware, Mass.
Box 4	Folder 11	Item 1: View of railroad from Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		L. T. Masse, Three Rivers, Mass., photographer. Albumen print, ca. 1890. Image depicts a view probably taken from the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers, Mass., overlooking a railroad engine and cars on a trestle. There is a man in the cab of the locomotive and two men standing in front of the locomotive. The last car appears to be full of men (directly in front of the smokestack on the right). There is a corner of a two-story building on the left with a man standing on the platform outside; there are also two men working on a platform to the right of that building. There are trees and bushes in the foreground and fenced land in the background. The cable stretching across the photograph is probably the one used to move bales of cotton to the cotton house (the building on the left?) from the mill; see Item 2, in this folder. 19.5 x 14 cm. (w/out mount); 25.25 x 20.25 cm. (w/mount).
Box 4	Folder 11	Item 2: Cotton bales transported by cable trolley outside the Palmer Mill, Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		L. T. Masse, Three Rivers, Mass., photographer. Albumen print, ca. 1890. Image depicts a view of cotton bales being transported by a cable trolley line outside the Palmer Mill in Three Rivers, Mass. The mill is at least four stories tall (the ground cannot be seen in the photograph) with another half-story on top; there are two tall smokestacks in the picture. The cotton bales are attached to a pulley line that is barely visible in the photograph. Written on the reverse of the mount: "Palmer Mill - Three Rivers. Cotton bales were carried across Quaboag River on cable trolley for the railroad and cotton house on west side of river." The river would be to the left and cannot be seen in the photograph. See Item 1, in this folder, for another view of the trolley line, possibly connecting to the cotton house. 19.75 x 13.5 cm. (w/out mount); 25.25 x 20.25 cm. (w/mount).
Box 4	Folder 11	Item 3: Thorndike Mill #2 with construction debris nearby, Thorndike, Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Chas. W. Eddy, Ware, Mass., photographer. Gelatin silver print, ca. 1890. Image depicts part of the exterior of the Thorndike Mill #2 of the Thorndike Mfg. Co. on the left. There appears to be construction debris on the ground in the foreground and stretching into the background along the fence of the canal: boards, barrels, ladders, and chunks of granite. Thorndike, Mass., is a village in present-day Palmer, Mass. 19.75 x 13.5 cm. (w/out mount); 21.5 x 16.5 cm. (w/mount).
Box 4	Folder 11	Item 4: View of the town of Ware, Mass.	1888
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, May 24, 1888. Image depicts a view of the town of Ware, Mass., taken from a high vantage point (a tall hill?) outside the town. A number of textile mills can be seen in the center, with housing behind them and then open land in the background. Written on the reverse of the mount: "May 24, 1888" and "Otis Company mills center and right. Stevens (Ware Woolen) and Gilbert Mills at left." The Geo. H. Gilbert Mfg. Co. and the Ware Woolen Mills manufactured woolen goods; the Otis Company manufactured cotton goods. 19.75 x 13.5 cm. (w/out mount); 21.5 x 16.25 cm. (w/mount).
Box 4	Folder 11	Item 5: Ware River, Ware, Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, n.d. Image depicts a view of the Ware River in Ware, Mass, during the winter; snow is seen on the trees. Written on the reverse of the mount: "Ware River above mill" but the mill is unspecified. The Ware River joins with the Quaboag River in Three Rivers (Palmer), Mass. to form the Chicopee River. 11.5 x 9 cm. (w/out mount); 21.5 x 16.5 cm. (w/mount).
Box 4	Folder 11	Item 6: Otis Company Counting Room with #3 Mill in background, Ware, Mass.	1887
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Albumen print, May 26, 1887. An 1887 copy of an 1875 photo. Image depicts the Otis Company Counting Room, a two-story, light-colored building with shutters in the foreground. The larger #3 Mill is in the background, a four-and-a-half story brick building with a six-story tower. See Box 1, Folder 1, Item 2, in this collection, for a better quality image dated in 1876. 16.5 x 11.75 cm. (w/out mount); 21.5 x 16.5 cm. (w/mount).
Box 4	Folder 11	Item 7: Otis Company Machine Shop, Ware, Mass.	1886
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, May 15, 1886. Image depicts a three-story brick building in the center, with what appears to be a one-story extension in the right rear. Dirt roads and some open grassy areas are in front, with several trees along a road that curves to the left. Other mill buildings can be seen in the background. Written on reverse of mount: "May 15, 1886 Machine Shop Otis Co - Ware." 20 x 13.5 cm. (w/out mount); 21.5 x 16.5 cm. (w/mount).
Box 4	Folder 11	Item 8: Otis Company #1 Mill and Machine Shop from the rear, Ware, Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1886. Image depicts the Otis Company #1 Mill in the center of the photograph, a four- or five-story building with a tower. The two-story building in front of it is probably the picker house. The machine shop is the three-story building on the right, partially hidden by a stone building without windows. This image of the machine shop is taken from the opposite angle as that seen in Item 7, in this folder, These buildings lie along a body of water, possibly the Ware River. Trees are in the left foreground. Written on reverse of mount: "Otis Co. Machine shop at right #1 mill and picker house at left." 19.5 x 14 cm. (w/out mount); 21.5 x 16.5 cm. (w/mount).
Box 4	Folder 11	Item 9: Otis Company underwear finishing building, Ware, Mass.
		Format: Black and white photograph
		Gelatin silver print, ca. 1886. Image depicts a three- story brick building in three sections with three chimneys incorporated into the building. A bridge with a set of railroad tracks leads to the left background; a road passes beneath it. A man wearing a white apron at his waist can be seen in the left background, leaning on a post outside the building. The Otis Company produced cotton checks, denims and fine underwear. Written on reverse of mount: "Otis Co. underwear finishing building." 20.5 x 13.25 cm. (w/out mount); 21.25 x 16.25 cm. (w/mount).