Quinebaug Company Records

Collection Number: 6842

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


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Quinebaug Company Records, 1881-1889
Collection Number:
6842
Creator:
Quinebaug Company
Quantity:
0.2 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Gelatin silver print, photographs, receipts (acknowledgments), records (documents) .
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Includes receipts and invoices for items purchased for the factory or for re-sale at the factory store. Receipts are from wholesale grocers, sellers of fancy goods, dry goods, fruit, etc. Also contains invoices for equipment for the mill, including bolts, nuts, spools and bobbins, loom harnesses, etc.
Language:
Collection material in English


ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY

The company was a cotton manufacturer located in Providence, Rhode Island, with mills in Danielsonville, a locality in Danielson, Connecticut.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Includes receipts and invoices for items purchased for the factory or for re-sale at the factory store. Receipts are from wholesale grocers, sellers of fancy goods, dry goods, fruit, etc. Also contains invoices for equipment for the mill, including bolts, nuts, spools and bobbins, loom harnesses, etc. and invoices for items consigned for sale by the company as well as for goods purchased. Companies to which goods were consigned include Stokes, Caldwell & Co., Philadelphia; Collins, Atwater & Whitin, New York City; and Merrimack Manufacturing Co., Lowell, Massachusetts.

PROVENANCE:

American Textile History Museum Collection.
PROVENANCE:

American Textile History Museum Collection.
SUBJECTS

Names:
American Textile History Museum
Odell Manufacturing Company.
Quinebaug Company.

Subjects:
Business records
Commission agents
Company stores
Cotton manufacture
Industries
Invoices
Manufacturers' agents
Textile industry
Textile workers
Cotton technology, General

Geographic Subjects:
Bynum (N.C.)

Form and Genre Terms:
Gelatin silver print
Photographs
Receipts (Acknowledgments)
Records (documents)


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:
Quinebaug Company Records #6842. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.

CONTAINER LIST

Container
Description
Date
Box 1 Folder 1 1881-1889
Box 1 Folder 2 1879-1892
Box 1 Folder 3 1850-1879
Box 1 Folder 4 1880-1893