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  • Collection: Assabet Mills

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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.
l to r
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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Black and white photograph of the Mill Clock (or Town Clock).

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Photograph of Mill Workers. A few have been identified.
Four standing in the back, first on left is John McCormick, other three unidentified. Directly in front of McCormick is Joe Chidley (five buttoned sweater). Two to the left of Chidley is…

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Photographs (before/after) of a renovation project of Mill Building #7 (the "Dye House") undertaken by Maynard Industries in 1956

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Views of Assabet Mill from Walnut Street during the Flood of 1927.

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A book of pictures of all the American Woolen Mills properties.

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12 color snapshots of the draining of the Mill Pond taken by Elizabeth Schnair, July 1977. One photo is of the exposed trestle used in 1916-1917 when building Mill No. 1. Another photo is of the wooden pipeline used to convey water to mill while…

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A photo with a view from Thompson Street.
Teamster on far right is Amos Oliver.