Bacon Felt Company Records
Collection Number: 6955
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Title:
Bacon Felt Company Records,
1864-1979
Collection Number:
6955
Creator:
Bacon Felt Company
Quantity:
0.5 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, records (documents).
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management
Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Incoming correspondence re business and family, 1869-1873
Language:
Collection material in English
Company started in 1825 by Robert Bacon to make hats. John H. Bacon and Charles N. Bacon later joined the company. Twenty-five
years later it began manufacturing all-wool sheet felt for the wallpaper trade, marble
polishing and other mechanical uses. It also made felt wheels for polishing & burnishing. The company was bought by Stanley
& Samuel McNeily in 1941. Includes 2 letterbooks, 1869-1870 and 1873. Also includes 1979 newspaper article on history of
company.
Contains incoming correspondence, 1869-1870, 1873, concerning both business and family matters. Also includes a newspaper
clipping from the Winchester Star, Oct. 25, 1979, giving a history of the company
PROVENANCE:
American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of William E. Becker.
American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of William E. Becker.
Names:
Bacon, Charles N.
Bacon, John H.
Bacon, Robert.
McNeily, Samuel.
McNeily, Stanley.
Bacon Felt Company.
Subjects:
Burnishing
Business records
Felt
Felting
Grinding
and polishing
Marble industry and trade
Other cloth fabrication methods
Textile industry
Geographic Subjects:
Winchester (Mass.)
Form and Genre Terms:
Correspondence
Records
(documents)
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:
Bacon Felt Company Records #6955. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
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Container
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Date
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 | 1979 | |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 | 1864-1870 | |
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partially bound - Very brittle
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| Box 1 | Folder 3 | 1873 | |
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Bound - very brittle
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