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Textile industry--United States--History--19th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Farwell's Mills Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2009.143
Scope and Contents Business ledger, 344 pp., recording mainly the payroll for "Labor and Job Work" of Farwell's Mills, Lisbon, Androscoggin County, Maine, from August 1968 to November 1875. The following description was excerpted from the seller's notes: "Detailed breakdown by occupational location or job category, like "Weave room" "warp spinning" or "saw mill and outside." Also documents the full name of each employee, days worked per pay period, daily wages, and amounts due. A large percentage of the...
Dates: 1868-1875

Johnson's Woolen Company Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: SC 00950
Scope and Contents

Ledger of Johnson's Woolen Company in Wayne, Kennebec County, Maine. It features purchases and sales along with a section in the back used as payroll.

Dates: 1877-1884

Lexington Milling Co. Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Ami T2 Oversize
Scope and Contents

Ledger, 1840-1846, of Lexington Milling Company [Lexington, Va.] containing accounts for a textile mill.

Dates: 1840-1846

Samuel and Bethel Morris Account Book, 1819-1835

 Collection — Box 1, Bound Volume: 1
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2009.142
Scope and Contents Account book, 1819-1835, of Connecticut textile entrepreneurs Samuel and Bethel Morris, possibly of Danbury, Fairfield County. Contains detailed transactions with named male and female textile workers, who worked out of in their own homes, participating in a cottage industry managed by the Morrises. The Morrises oversaw network of textile workers in specified area villages like Haystown, Longridge, Newfield, Oxford, "Redding" and Stonyhill (the Morrises generally appended towns of...
Dates: 1819-1835; Majority of material found within 1819-1929

Shadrach Gill and Thomas Fawcett Account Book

 Collection
Identifier: SC 00768
Scope and Contents

Account book, 1832-1842, of Shadrach Gill and Thomas Fawcett, textile manufactueres in Montgomery County, Maryland. Includes records of materials purchased and work performed, with prices for both. Work performed includes carding and fulling of wool as well as weaving of carpets, blankets, cloth, and flannel. Most of the weavers were men and many performed their work at their own homes.

Dates: 1832-1842