Dwight, Edmund (1780-1849)

Overview:

Records of the first mill in the world to combine all aspects of the manufacture of cotton founded in Waltham, Mass. in 1813.

Scope and Content: The album contains photographs of nearly all members of the Harvard College Class of 1844. There is one image per person with the exception of Edwin A. Wild. Some are reproducations of images from the sitter's student days, some are probably contemporary with the receipt of the request for the photograph. Wheelright's notes on the receipt of each image are pasted in at the front of the album. Some photographs were duplicated for inclusion and the originals returned to the sender. Many images...

Scope and Contents: The material in this collection, which runs from the company's origin to its dissolution, documents, among other things, an early attempt to win the American race to manufacture high quality iron along English lines. That is, the company's goal was to use coke (rather than charcoal) and the hot blast method to fire furnaces to produce large quantities of high-grade iron. Furthermore, the enterprise was an attempt to integrate all stages of production from coal mining to the manufacture of...

Scope and Contents: Records of Naumkeag to 1914, with a few main series to 1945. Minutes, stockholders' records, general ledgers, journals, cash books, trial balances, six-months accounts, production records, outgoing correspondence, but few payroll or sales records. Includes letters of Edmund Smith, David Pingree, Edmund Dwight, Henry D. Sullivan, Frederick Dexter, and N. G. Simonds, treasurers; Josiah Brown, John Kilburn, E. F. Balch, and William P. McMullan, agents; and John Howard Fallon, trustee; and...