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A photo of employees who work in the Warping Department. These employees maintain machinery that uses strands of yarn to form heavier threads that will ultimately become a sixty inch finished width of fabric.

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Still Image of the employees in the perching weave room in the mill in the early 1900's. Left to right: James Keller, Frank Johnson, Thomas Wright, Harry Brooklyn, William McAuslin, Hiram Parkin, August Moynihan, Herbert Whitehead, and __ Smith.

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Two photo albums and a scrapbook showing the events that occurred as part of the towns 100th birthday.
Two sample pages shown.

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A book "Containing Alphabetical Lists of the Residents, Churches, Schools, Societies, Town Officers, Fraternal Orders, Etc. together with Street and Business Directories"

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A book that contains " a complete resident, street and business directory, town officers, schools, societies,churches, Post-Offices, state census for 1900, rates of postage, etc."

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Owned by Gideon Foster

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Operator in Weave Room March 19, 1901.

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Employees of the dry finishing department 1905.
Front Row:
Second from left Albert C. Fourth from left P. Carbone

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An information booklet with lists of Acton, Concord and Maynard (shown) tax payers, advertisers, moral lessons, calenders, court schedules and other miscellaneous tidbits.

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A booklet published by the V.F.W. with ads for the local businesses. Several sample pages shown.

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It would seem that Maurice worked for Mrs. A. M. Wilkins of Lincoln for the summer and requested a reference letter as to his work habits. It is interesting that Mrs. Wilkins summered in Lincoln but spent time in Washington, D. C.

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Mary Priest Maynard is wife of Amory Maynard, founder of the Town of Maynard.

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Walter Zancewicz was aboard the first ship, Marine Serpent, that entered Pearl Harbor after the bombing of December 7, 1941. The second photo is the ship.

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This picture shows the "Little Coop" with a foundation for the new "Little Coop" at the corner of Waltham St., Parker St. and Powder Mill Road.

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This could have been the original "Old Brick School House"

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Photo of young boys working at blending. Scored wool and other fibers are blended before carding. As of 1891, one eighth of the workers were less than 16 years old and made 5.5 cents per hour.
Photo of a team of pipe fitters who are part of theā€¦

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A photo of employees in the Spinning Room of the American Woolen Company Mills in 1905.

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A photo of Joshua Evans in the Weave Room of the American Woolen Company Mills. Joshua John Edwards is on the right.