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The 24th Annual Report for the American Woolen Mill Company includes: Officers/Directors Listing,President's Report, Treasurer's Report, and brief history of the Company.

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Start of New Village - Harrison Street
The American Woolen Company in June of 1901 purchased the Reardon Estate on the south side of Parker Street. Sixty houses were built on this property to house workers for the mill. The view shown is Harrison…

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Names on back of photo:
Evelyn Russo, Ruth Garside, Ruth Croft, Kathleen Crotty, Theresa Mariano, A. Hamlin, E. Sivartz, H. Imaka, E. Perry, R. Schivenka, D. Newman, M. Smith, Lawler, Mahoney, Layton, White, Murphy, HInds, Walls, Brown, Lynch,…

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A sepia photo of Grade 2(?) in front of the Roosevelt School.

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A sepia photo of Grade 3 class in front of the Roosevelt School.

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A sepia photo of the Grade 5(?) in front of the Woodrow Wilson School (Main Street School).

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The class picture was taken in front of the 2nd Nason Street School that was destroyed by fire in 1916. It is the site of the Library (Roosevelt School).

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A booklet from the Crompton & Knowles Loom Works (Worcester, MA) that describes the installation procedures for new automatic looms, c. 1930.

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A booklet from the Crompton & Knowles Loom Works (Worceter, MA) that describes the improvements made to their looms with the addition of a Mechanical Warp Stop Motion, Regan Type.

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Dry Finishing Room Employees at Assabet Woolen Mills

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A booklet describing the Blue Cross Insurance Plan for employees of the American Woolen Company, 1945.

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Picture taken at Memorial Park on November 11, 1975.

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Joseph Dineen, William Baron, James Whalen, William Sweeney, Ralph (George?) Jamieson

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Photo of Fulling or Wet Finishing Department 1902 Assabet Mills

A copy of an American Woolen Company advertisement from the Museum of American Textile History.

A copy of an article from the Museum of American Textile History citing a brief history of Maynard, MA and the American Woolen Company.

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The Chandler, Howard & Co published a small card containing the 1911 timetable for the boats that ferried people between Maynard and Lake Boon. The boats kept a, more or less, hourly schedule. The card shows one of the boats on the water, probably…

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Taken at the coal pile on Walnut Street before the installation of oil. The men in the picture are the second hands and employees of both departments which were under one head.

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1st photo : Robert "Wink" McGarry. The nickname is attributed to the constant blinking of the eyes due to irritation from manufacturing process.

2nd photo: l to r Alvin Stone, Alfred Carey, "Wink" McGarry

3rd photo : l to r Alfred Carey ,…

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Photos showing some of the members preparing for the Town of Maynard's Centennial in 1971.

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Photo 1: Marie Sheridan, Elizabeth Schnair, Ralph Sheridan, Benny Sofka, Rudy Koski

Photo 2: Birgir Koski, Ralph Sheridan, Elizabeth…

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Coal was the main source of power for the mill complex in the early 1900s. The coal was brought to the mill by train and was unloaded and shoveled into the boilers by these workers.