Johnson, Cyril Woolen Company Records, 1919-1963
Collection Number: 6589
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Cyril Johnson Woolen Company Records, 1919-1963
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
6589
Abstract:
Collection contains incoming correspondence, 1930-1963, reports on cloth production
for the armed forces, 1941-1945, and other war-related materials; papers concerning
the mill closing, 1962-1963; and information files including clippings, pamphlets,
notes and articles on wages and hours, company history, fashions, mill closings, and
imports.
Creator:
Cyril Johnson Woolen Company.
Quanitities:
1 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
The company, started in 1879, was located in Stafford Springs, Conn., with selling
offices on Madison Ave., New York. It manufactured fine wool suitings and overcoatings.
The company was sold in 1963. During the period covered s collection, it operated
10 sets of cards, 100 looms, and 4,000 spindles.
Collection contains incoming correspondence, 1930-1963, on topics such as machinery,
advertising, fashion, business conditions, imports and mill closings. It also contains
cloth test results compared with Japanese cloth for tensile strength and shrinkage,
including consulting report from Barnes Textile Associates; survey of carding machinery
with recommendations from Davis & Furber Machine Co.; reports on cloth production
for the armed forces, 1941-1945, and other war- related materials; papers concerning
the mill closing, 1962-1963; and information files including clippings, pamphlets,
notes and articles on wages and hours, company history, fashions, mill closings, and
imports.
Custodial History
American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of the Cyril Johnson Woolen Company.
American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of the Cyril Johnson Woolen Company.
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
Cyril Johnson Woolen Company Records #6589. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation
and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Related Collections: 6589 F: Cyril Johnson Woolen Company Films 6589 G: Cyril Johnson
Woolen Company Graphics 6589 P: Cyril Johnson Woolen Company Photographs
Names:
Cyril Johnson Woolen Company
Subjects:
Advertising
Coats
Men's clothing industry
Selling
Suits (Clothing)
Swatches (Dry-goods)
Textile industry
Wool fabrics
Woolen and worsted manufacture
Wool technology -- General
Samples (Cloth)
Stafford Springs (Conn.)
United States
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Correspondence - Machinery
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1952-1961 |
Format: Text
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Scope and Contents
September 29, 1952-September 12, 1961
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Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Correspondence - C.D. Newell
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1933-1938 |
Format: Text
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Scope and Contents
New York office to mill in Connecticut; February 1933 - August 1938
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Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Correspondence - C.D. Newell
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1938-1943 |
Format: Text
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Scope and Contents
New York office to mill in Connecticut; November 1938 - October 1941, October 1943
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Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Correspondence - Miscellaneous
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1924-1963 |
Format: Text
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Scope and Contents
June 1924, June 1935 - July 1963
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Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Correspondence - Incoming Miscellaneous
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1924-1963 |
Format: Text
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Scope and Contents
June 1924, June 1935 - July 1963
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Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Imports - Correspondence
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1953-1960 |
Format: Text
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Scope and Contents
Mill closings; April 1953 - April 1960
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Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Correspondence - To F.C. Luce from Wool Institute
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1930 |
Format: Text
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Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Cloth production for Armed Forces
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1941-1945 |
Format: Text
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Scope and Contents
circa 1941-1945
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Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Cloth Test Results
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1945-1960 |
Format: Text
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Scope and Contents
1945, 1957-1960
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Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Survey of Carding Machinery
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1958 |
Format: Text
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Scope and Contents
and Recommendations by Davis & Furber Machine Company; July 11, 1958
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Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Army-Navy "E" Award
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1943 |
Format: Text
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Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Company Bulletin Re: Suggestion Box
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Format: Text
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Scope and Contents
Undated
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Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Guilford Re: Purchase of C.J.W. Company
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1962 |
Format: Text
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Scope and Contents
August 10, 1962
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Box 1 | Folder 14 |
News Release - C. Johnson Mill Closing
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1963 |
Format: Text
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Scope and Contents
April 26, 1963
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Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Wage Scales and Hours Report
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1919-1923 |
Format: Text
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Scope and Contents
1919, 1923
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Box 2 | Folder 2 |
New Clippings - Re: Purchase of C.J.W. Company
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1962 |
Format: Text
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Scope and Contents
Purchase by Guilford Industries; July 1962
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Box 2 | Folder 3 |
News Clippings - Re: C.J. Woolen Company
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1950-1959 |
Format: Text
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Box 2 | Folder 4 |
News Clippings - Re: Army-Navy "E" Award
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1943 |
Format: Text
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Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Newspaper - "Daily News Record"
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1943 |
Format: Text
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Scope and Contents
March 29, 1943
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Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Newspaper - "Daily News Record"
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1943 |
Format: Text
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Scope and Contents
August 12, 1943
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Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Newspaper - "Daily News Record"
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1943 |
Format: Text
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Scope and Contents
August 17, 1943
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Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Newspaper - "Daily News Record"
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1943 |
Format: Text
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Scope and Contents
August 18, 1943
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Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Newspaper - "The Stafford Press"
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1943 |
Format: Text
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Scope and Contents
July 15, 1943
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Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Newspaper - "The Stafford Press"
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1943 |
Format: Text
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Scope and Contents
August 5, 1943
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Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Newspaper - "The Stafford Press"
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1943 |
Format: Text
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Scope and Contents
August 12, 1943
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Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Newspaper - "The Stafford Press"
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1943 |
Format: Text
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Scope and Contents
August 19, 1943
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Box 2 | Folder 13 |
Newspaper - "The Stafford Press"
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1945 |
Format: Text
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Scope and Contents
February 1, 1945
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Box 2 | Folder 14 |
Newspaper Page - "The Springfield Sunday Union and Republican"
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1943 |
Format: Text
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Scope and Contents
July 18, 1943
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Box 2 | Folder 15 |
Newspaper Page - "The Hartford Times"
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1943 |
Format: Text
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Scope and Contents
April 23, 1943
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Box 2 | Folder 16 |
Newspaper Page - "The Hartford Times"
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1943 |
Format: Text
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Scope and Contents
August 17, 1943
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Box 2 | Folder 17 |
Newspaper - "The Rockville Journal"
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1943 |
Format: Text
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Scope and Contents
August 12, 1943
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Box 2 | Folder 18 |
News Clippings - Re: Mill Strike, Vacation, Town History
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1935-1943 |
Format: Text
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Scope and Contents
Strike - 1935, Vacation - 1943, Town history - 1943
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Box 2 | Folder 19 |
Synthetics
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1952 |
Format: Text
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Box 2 | Folder 20 |
News Clippings - Memos Attached
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1958-1959 |
Format: Text
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Scope and Contents
Re: Wool industry, general fashion trends
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Box 2 | Folder 21 |
Imports - Script Tables Listing Import
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1954-1961 |
Format: Text
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Box 2 | Folder 22 |
Imports/Mill Closings
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1953-1963 |
Format: Text
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Scope and Contents
Printed on typescript material
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Box 2 | Folder 23 |
Newspaper Ads & Articles - Re: Imports & Mill Closings
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1954-1957 |
Format: Text
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Box 2 | Folder 24 |
"Basic Troubles with the Sheep, Wool, Woolen and Worsted Textiles, and Lamb Slaughtering
Industries"
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1961 |
Format: Text
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Scope and Contents
By Laurence T. Ritchie; February 5, 1961
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Box 2 | Folder 25 |
"Camel-Hair Fabrics"
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Format: Text
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Scope and Contents
Carbon copy; No author; Undated
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Box 2 | Folder 26 |
Abstract of Birth Record
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1928-1938 |
Format: Text
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Scope and Contents
Francis Henry Mitchell; 1928, 1938
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