Farnsworth Manufacturing Records, 1931-1961
Collection Number: 6636
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Farnsworth Manufacturing Records, 1931-1961
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
6636
Abstract:
14 time books (weekly) from machinery repair shop (1931-1961); diary, 1954, of shop
foreman listing repair work done each day by each employee; typescript lubrication
survey for Farnsworth Mill done by Gulf Oil Corp., Portland, Me., ca 1950.
Creator:
Farnsworth Manufacturing
Quanitities:
1 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
Farnsworth Manufacturing Co., Lisbon, Maine. Woolen mill & division of Cotwool Manufacturing
Co. Also known as Farnsworth Mill.
Includes weekly time books, 1931-1932, 1935-1938, and 1941-1961, from the machinery
repair shop; and a diary of a shop foreman, 1954, which lists repair work done each
day by each employee. Also includes a report entitled, Lubrication survey for Farnsworth
Mill, Deering-Milliken Service, Lisbon Center, Maine, done by Gulf Oil Corporation,
Portland, Me., ca. 1950. Report outlines the type of lubricants recommended for various
machines
Custodial History
American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of Deering, Milliken and Company
and Samuel T. Freeman & Company.
American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of Deering, Milliken and Company
and Samuel T. Freeman & Company.
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Procedures for Document Use.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Farnsworth Manufacturing Records #6636. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation
and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Related Collections: 6636 G: Farnsworth Manufacturing Graphics 6636 PUBS: Farnsworth
Manufacturing Publications
Names:
Cotwool Manufacturing Company.
Deering, Milliken & Co.
Farnsworth Manufacturing Co.
Farnsworth Mills (Lisbon, Me.)
Subjects:
Bills of lading
Business records
Conveyancing
Deeds
Dyes and dyeing
Invoices
Lubrication and lubricants
Supervisors, Industrial
Textile industry
Woolen and worsted machinery
Woolen and worsted manufacture
Price lists
Wool technology -- General
Woolen manufacturers
Lisbon (Me.)
CONTAINER LIST
|
Container
|
Description
|
Date
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Standard Cut Leaf Time Book (0022.123.1-.2) (1931-1932), 1935-1937)
|
1931-1937 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Standard Cut Leaf Time Book (0022.123.2-.3) (1937-1938) (1941-1943)
|
1937-1943 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Standard Cut Leaf Time Book (0022.123.5-.6) (1943-1945) (1945-1946)
|
1943-1946 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Standard Cut Leaf Time Book (0022.123.7-.8) (1947-1949)
|
1947-1949 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Standard Cut Leaf Time Book (0022.123.9-.10) (1949-1951) (1951-1953)
|
1949-1953 |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Standard Cut Leaf Time Book (oo22.123.11-.12) (1953-1955) (1955-1957)
|
1953-1957 |
| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Standard Cut Leaf Time Book (0022.123.13-.14) (1957-1959) (1959-1961)
|
1957-1961 |
| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Farnsworth Mfg. Co. -- Diary
|
1954 |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Farnsworth Mill -- Lubrication Survey ca. 1950
|
1950 |