Pacific Mills Cotton Mill Records, 1854-1889
Collection Number: 6825/001
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Pacific Mills Cotton Mill Records, 1854-1889
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
6825/001
Abstract:
Records include correspondence and memoranda, 1854-1889, concerning contracts, construction
and purchases; also letters from English operatives re the conditions of their employment
at Pacific Mills, 1862-1866; orders for English machinery by William C. Chapin, Agt.,
1862; tax bills & receipts; construction memorandum, 1873. Also includes one spinning
time book, 1879-1881; name in flyleaf, "Mr. John Barker, W Spinning, Pacific Mills,
Lawrence." Also assignment of patent rights, 1876, from Samuel Barlow for an invention
for improvement in manufacturing ornamental textile fabrics, and expense account of
Joseph Walworth, 1863.
Creator:
Pacific Mills
Quanitities:
0.25 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
The Pacific Mills, located in Lawrence, Mass., were textile printers, dyers and bleachers
and manufactured cotton and worsted goods.
Includes correspondence and memoranda concerning contracts, construction and purchases,
1854-1889; bills and receipts for supplies, personnel, etc., many with the name of
William C. Chapin, who served as mill agent; expense account of Joseph Walworth, 1863;
and assignment of patent rights, March 27, 1876, from Samuel Barlow of Lawrence for
an invention for improvement in the art of manufacturing ornamental textile fabrics.
Also includes a spinning time book, 1879-1881, with the name, John Barker, in flyleaf;
correspondence from English operatives stating conditions of their agreement to work
as weavers, a color maker, a bleacher, etc., 1862-1866; and orders for English machinery,
1862.
Custodial History
American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of Ray Hooper and the Lawrence Public
Library.
American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of Ray Hooper and the Lawrence Public
Library.
Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference
archivist for access to these materials.
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and
Procedures for Document Use.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Pacific Mills Cotton Mill Records #6825/001. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation
and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Related Collections: 6825 G: Pacific Mills Graphics 6825 LS: Pacific Mills Glass Lantern
Slides 6825 P: Pacific Mills Photographs 6825: Pacific Mills Records 6825/002: Pacific
Mills, Worsted Division Records 6825/003: Asel Mann Wade Papers 6825/004: Henry Ferrette
Papers 6825/005: Henry F. Perkins Papers
Names:
Barker, John.
Barlow, Samuel.
Chapin, William C.
Saltonstall, Henry.
Cocheco Manufacturing Company.
Merrimack Print Works (Lowell, Mass.)
Pacific Mills (Larence, Mass.)
Walworth, Joseph
Subjects:
Business records
Costs
Cotton
Cotton manufacture
Immigrants
Industries
Industrial relations
Mill agents
Patents
Payrolls
Textile fibers
Textile industry
Textile printing
Textile workers
Wages
Weaving
Woolen and worsted manufacture
Yarn
Mill treasurers
Wool technology -- General
Labor records
Cotton technology -- General
England
Dover (N.H.)
Lawrence (Mass.)
Lowell (Mass.)
Scotland
CONTAINER LIST
|
Container
|
Description
|
Date
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Correspondence + Memo -- re: contracts + purchases
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Assignment of Patent rights
|
1876 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Letters of agreement
|
1856-1866 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Various receipts (banks, supplies, personnel, Internal Revenue) (1854-1889 + undated)
|
1854-1889 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Spinning time book
|
1879-1881 |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Directions for locking a chest + changing the combination
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Real Estate, Rents + Construction 1857-1873 + undated
|
1857-1873 |