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  • Collection: Assabet Mills

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Photo of Fulling or Wet Finishing Department 1902 Assabet Mills

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Dry Finishing Room Employees at Assabet Woolen Mills

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Start of New Village - Harrison Street
The American Woolen Company in June of 1901 purchased the Reardon Estate on the south side of Parker Street. Sixty houses were built on this property to house workers for the mill. The view shown is Harrison…

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Front: G. Soules, J. White, F. OBrien, W. Johnston, H. Lyons, J. Moynihan
Back: H. Morgan, R. Marsden, T. Marsden, W. Morrill, M. Vodoklys, W. Oates

In 1924 the American Woolen Company had a league comprised of several of the mill teams.…

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Photos of exterior of Assabet Mills taken by Robert McGarry

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Members of the dry finishing department at the American Woolen Mills 1931.

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Specking room employees working at a loom.

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This view of the Assabet Mill was taken looking out over the roof of the dye house.

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Photo of the Assabet Mills, ca 1900.

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Group portrait of Assabet Mill (American Woolen Company) Office Employees.
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Front: Mae Donahue, Dorothy Sheridan, Mildred Randall, Sadie Mallinson, Dorothy Wilder, Eva Tucker, Margaret McCormack, Mary Darcy, Gertrude…

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Thirteen booklets containing explanations, practice calculations and examinations questions on topics that involve the processing of raw wool to a finish fabric.
The photo is a sample cover of the courses. This Ply Weave course comes complete with…

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A textbook like treatise on the the woolen business including all types of calculations in the processing of wool. The book was published in England for the English woolen industry. The back of the book has may ads, see sample page.

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Load of Cloth from Assabet Mills at the Express Office on Main Street, 1916. From Left to Right Arthur Jordan, Richard Parmenter at rear of truck, Joe Fitzpatrick, Arley Lawrence at side, William Nelson, driver.

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Group portrait of Mill employees (unidentified).

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A photograph of two Mill executives (unknown) looking over papers on a desk surrounded by various ledgers.

Calendar on right side of photograph indicates it was taken in March 1914.

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Photograph of construction equipment laying the foundation of Number 1 Mill (Building 1). The Mill pond has been drained and a wooden flume carrying the water to the boiler room from the canal on Front Street is visible in the background. Note the…

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Photograph of Mill Construction of the Number 1 Mill (Building 1) in 1918 showing construction equipment and the flume which carried water from the canal to the boiler room (the mill pond was drained for the construction project).

Note: Sheridan…

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In order to build Number 1 Mill (Building 1), the entire Mill pond was drained a flume to carry the water from Front Street to the boiler room at the mills was constructed.

Photograph shows the flume, mill pond ice, and construction…

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Construction of Mill Building 1 in 1918 required the draining of the mill pond. This photograph shows the drained pond, the flume carrying water to the mill from the canal, a trench for the foundation of the building and construction equipment…

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