Griffin & Taylor Company Records

Collection Number: 6674

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


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Griffin & Taylor Company Records, 1865-1961
Collection Number:
6674
Creator:
Griffin & Taylor Company
J.P. Stevens & Co.
Quantity:
0.2 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, sales records, time books.
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Includes business records, 1864-1871.
Language:
Collection material in English


ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY

Griffin & Taylor; Taylor & Co., Franklin, NH. Woolen manufacturing company; produced dress goods, fancy shirting, blankets. Faulkner, Kimball & Co. acted as selling agents. Acquired by M.T. Stevens & Sons, 1871.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Includes business records, 1864-1871, including payroll records, daily spinning room production records, invoice books, bales assigned to Faulkner, Kimball & Co., supply ledger for dye house, property & departmental inventories. Also payrolls, time books for day hands, scouring receipts, spinning room production records and payroll. 1870 inventory lists in detail tools and machinery owned by the mill.

PROVENANCE:

American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of J.P. Stevens & Co.
PROCESSING INFORMATION:

The over all arrangemt given by ATHM was kept, with a few exceptions. ATHM had previously moved the contents of folder 1 listed as "Correspondence from Davis & Furber regarding card clothing prices" into the Davis & Fuber records and the physical folder left empty. Upon processing at the Kheel Center this empty folder was removed and folders were renumbered accordingly. Folder listed as "Miscellany" was retitled "Correspondence and notes".
PROVENANCE:

American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of J.P. Stevens & Co.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Faulkner, Kimball & Company.
Franklin Mills (Franklin, N.H.)
Griffin & Taylor Company
M.T. Stevens & Sons Co., Inc.
Taylor and Company (Franklin, N.H.)

Subjects:
Business records
Financial records
Inventories
Manufacturers' agents
Payrolls
Selling agents.
Spinning
Textile industry
Wool technology, General
Woolen and worsted machinery
Woolen and worsted manufacture
Woolen and worsted spinning

Geographic Subjects:
Franklin (N.H.)
Franklin Falls (Franklin, N.H.)

Form and Genre Terms:
Correspondence
Sales records
Time books


INFORMATION FOR USERS

Access Restrictions:
Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference archivist for access to these materials.
Restrictions on Use:
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.
Cite As:
Griffin & Taylor Company Records #6674. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.

CONTAINER LIST

Container
Description
Date
Box 1 Folder 1 1870
Format: Text
Schedule of property belonging to Taylor & Company. November 26, 1870
Box 1 Folder 2 1865-1870
Format: Text
Much of the material is undated.
Box 1 Folder 3 1866-1869
Format: Text
Box 1 Folder 4 1869
Format: Text
Box 1 Folder 5 1869-1961
Format: Text
1869-1870; 1961