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  • Collection: Assabet Mills

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This shuttle with a bobbin of Khaki yarn was used in the Assabet Mills during World War One.

Photo negatives included.

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This large floor safe was installed in the main office building in the Assabet Mills.

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This is one of the large boilers used to heat the mill buildings. The boilers could be fired by either gas or oil with an easy conversion.

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During the flood of the Assabet River on March 13,1936, the river rose high enough to spill over its banks and to include the Walnut Street machine shop in mill Building No. 11 as part of the river.

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This "curfew bell" signaled to the mill employees that by 9 p.m. each night they were to be home and in bed. Amory Maynard warned that any of his employees found on the streets after the bell tolled would lose their jobs. In October 1935, the bell…

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Christmas Party photograph of the Main Office of the American Woolen Company.

Eva Edwards Frye is noted in the original accession record.

Rear (l-r): Raymond Veitch, ?? Templeton, Margaret McCormack, William Bain, Lucille Sims, Rachel Dzerkaz,…

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A Banner for the Textile Workers Union #771, Maynard, displayed on a wooden rod.

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A ledger beginning in November 1884 through September 1901 reporting the various accidents that occurred in the woolen mill. These include deaths, amputations, broken bones, bruises, lacerations etc. The author of the ledger is unknown. Many of the…

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A photo of the Assabet Mills taken from Beacon Street.

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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 colored photo of an aerial view of the Mill.

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

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A copy of a large framed lithograph.

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A drawing of the woolen mills for insurance purposes.