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
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
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
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
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
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
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
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
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
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center