Mason Machine Works Graphics
Collection Number: 6772 G
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Title:
Mason Machine Works Graphics,
1881-1883
Collection Number:
6772 G
Creator:
Mason Machine Works
Company.
Quantity:
0.4 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Photomechanical--collotype,
photomechanical--halftone, photomechanical--photolithograph, print, graphics
.
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and
Archives, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
This graphics collection includes items from several textile
mills and machine shops, the subject varies from floor plans to machinery
diagrams.
Language:
Collection material in English
Mason Machine Works began in 1843 as William Mason and Company with the financial
backing of Boston commission agents J.K. Mills and Company. The factory built cotton
and wool machinery, especially the self-acting mule for which Mason held patents. It
also built machine tools, blowers, cupola furnaces, gearings and shafting. Built in
1845, the new factory complex was then enlarged in 1852. In the 1850s the company
began to produce Mason's own model of locomotive which included a new spoked wheel
for which a foundry was built. By 1855 the company employed 600 hands. However in
the panic of 1857 the Mills Company failed and Mason and Company also went into
receivership. Mason was able to buy back hes plant and home, but from then on kept
the business as a family company. In 1873 the name was changed to Mason Machine
Works, and the Company was incorporated Diversity of production continued and at
various times rifles and printing presses were produced. By 1879 fire arms and
woolen machinery were dropped. By 1883, when William Mason died, the 10 acre factory
had 1000 employees.
In 1905 the Mason Machine Works was one of the seven companies to purchase the
Saco-Lowell Company. This did not stave off the serious financial difficulties of
the next years. William Mason's preoccupation with locomotives had lost him a
leading place in textile machinery manufacture and his death left a leadership
vacuum which his heirs were not able to fill. The 1920s saw the end of the
manufacture of cotton machinery parts. The company had acquired leases or ownership
of Whitin and Saco-Lowell machinery and had opened an agency in the South. During
W.W.I. they had become involved briefly in non-textile military production. By 1930
the Mason Machine Works still employe 700-1000 workers, by 1949 the business had
dwindled to a few workers and even the name Mason disappeared. The relict was known
as Textile Parts Incorporated.
American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of Stanley Matthews.
Names:
Jackson, A.S.
Baush Machine Tool Company.
Hunneman & Co.
Lowell Machine Shop (Lowell, Mass.)
Mason Machine Works.
Massachusetts Cotton Mills (Lindale, Ga.)
Saco-Lowell Shops.
Textile Parts, Inc.
Subjects:
Carding-machines
Horse-drawn vehicles
Lathes
Looms
Textile factories
Textile industry
Textile industry--Massachusetts
Textile machinery
Textile machinery industry
Textile workers
Weaving
Geographic Subjects:
Taunton (Mass.)
Form and Genre Terms:
Photomechanical--collotype
Photomechanical--halftone
Photomechanical--photolithograph
Print
Graphics
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:
Mason Machine Works Graphics #6772 G. Kheel Center for Labor-Management
Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Related Collections:
6772: Mason Machine Works Records
6772 P: Mason Machine Works Photographs
6772: Mason Machine Works Records
6772 P: Mason Machine Works Photographs
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