Bacon Felt Company Records, 1864-1979
Collection Number: 6955

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Bacon Felt Company Records, 1864-1979
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
6955
Abstract:
Incoming correspondence re business and family, 1869-1873
Creator:
Bacon Felt Company
Quanitities:
0.5 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
Biographical / Historical

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
Custodial History

American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of William E. Becker.
Custodial History

American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of William E. Becker.
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Preferred Citation

Bacon Felt Company Records #6955. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
SUBJECTS

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
Winchester (Mass.)
CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Box 1 Folder 1
Company History - news clipping
 1979
Box 1 Folder 2
Letters
 1864-1870
Scope and Contents
partially bound - Very brittle
Box 1 Folder 3
Letters
 1873
Scope and Contents
Bound - very brittle