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  • Collection: Assabet Mills

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The book has the date of order, date of carding and spinning , quantity and other information of the finished woolen cloth.

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The book records orders for different quantity, color, style, quality and kind of finished woolen cloth over a two year period.

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The book records orders for different quantities, color, style, quality and kind of finished woolen cloth over an eleven month period.

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The book records orders for different quantities, color, style, quality and kind of finished woolen cloth over a ten month period.

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Cloth label that was sown on the finished product.

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A collection of fourteen wool hooks used in the American Woolen Company Mills, in the process of manufacturing woolen cloth. These were used in the Drawing-In Room. They range in length from 6 to 10 inches.

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A green woolen blanket similar to those made at the American Woolen Co., Maynard.

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A square piece of purple wool cloth similar to those made at the American Woolen Co.

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The clock is being repainted similar to the original 1892 color.

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A ledger recording the real estate transfer of the property owned by the woolen company to private owners. The record indicates the purchase price, parcel location, interest payments and the balanced owed as of March 1936. Example shown is the…

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The shuttle carried the weft back and forth through the warp to make the weave.

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Bobbins were wound with the yarn that was used in weaving.

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The American Woolen Company built the houses off Parker Street and owned the variety store.

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The attached houses where built in 1901 to house mill workers. The location is corner of Main St. and Florida Rd. where Post Office is now located. The wall the woman is sitting on can be seen in front of Amory Maynard House, 145 Main St.

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View across the pond of the mill with two chimneys visible.
Chimney on left taken down in mid-1950's.
The RR Station can be seen on the left in the top photo.

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A souvenir box with a painting of the Assabet Mills and Mill Pond on the cover.

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A commemorative program celebrating the Mill Clock installation and donation by Lorenzo Maynard in 1892.

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The program dedicated three markers at the corner of Walnut St and Main St. that illustrate a brief history of the mill.

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A magnifying glass used by Miss Maggie Duggan in the Sewing Department at the Assabet Mills.