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Boston Manufacturing Company records

Collection Identifier: Mss:442 1813-1930
Overview:

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

Lycoming Coal Company records

Collection Identifier: Mss:351 1832-1848 L981
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...

Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company records

Collection Identifier: Mss:442 1845-1947
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...