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  • Collection: Assabet Mills

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Ledgers that list the various blends of wool to produce different quality/appearance of the cloth.

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A ledger with the various mixes of materials to produce a particular finished woolen cloth.

Folder contains various copies of Town of Sudbury documents relative to Knight & Maynard [Manufacturing Company] at Assabet Village.

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Letterhead from the Assabet Manufacturing Co. with order to Sawyer Mills on obverse.

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The ledger list the name and weekly wages of the woolen mill employees. The pay ranged from $.07 to $.40 per hour for a 60 hour week.
The highest paid employee was W. H. Maynard, the son of Amory Maynard, who earned $95.85/week as the…

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The woolen material that was used to make this coat was woven at the Assabet Mills, American Woolen Company, Maynard.

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A photo book with images that span the earliest use of the buildings as a woolen mill through the current tenants of a variety of enterprises.

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A book that explores the history of the men who served in the Civil War who had a Maynard connection.

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Union Contract with the workers of the 13 American Woolen Company Mills including the Assabet Mills of Maynard.

A record book documenting the owners of the real estate of the American Woolen Company, 1934.

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Joe Boothroyd's insurance card that outlines the benefits offered by the Woolen Mill.

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A drawing of the woolen mills for insurance purposes.

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A copy of a large framed lithograph.

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The carpet was likely produced at the American Woolen Company Assabet Mill.

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A booklet detailing the auctioning of properties formerly owned by Assabet Mills (including 101 cottages, 49 two family dwellings, and 12 parcels of unimproved land.)

Includes a sale terms, a detailed description of the properties (with…

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A series of 32 black and white photos documenting the removal of a chimney at the Maynard Mills.

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A colored photo of an aerial view of the Mill.

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Copy of a post card of the mill area taken from Summer Hill.

(See A252-A206)

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A photo of the Assabet Mills taken from Beacon Street.