Our collection of material relating to the city’s once thriving textile manufactories is extensive, and contains rare records dating back to the dawn of the industry.
Included are architectural and insurance plans, business records and manuscripts, fabric samples, photographs, swatch books, and related ephemera.
American Print Works Fabric
Commemorative patriotic printed cotton fabric. American Print Works, Fall River, Massachusetts, 1876.
Cloth Label
Cloth label, King Philip Mills, Fall River, Massachusetts. Chromolithograph on paper, unidentified printer, circa 1900.
Globe Yarn Mills Workers
Workers at the Globe Yarn Mills, Fall River, Massachusetts, circa 1882.
Albumen print, American, unidentified photographer.
Durfee Mills Tenement Lease
Tenement lease agreement between Durfee Mills, Fall River, Massachusetts, and Andrew Guy, September 6, 1870.
Tenement Lease Book, Durfee Mills, “31st August 1868 to 23rd August 1871 inclusive.”
Mill Fire Illustration
Granite Mill Fire, Fall River, Illustration, Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, No. 992, Volume XXXIX, New York, October 3, 1874.
Wood engraving on paper, E. R. Morse (American, 19th century).
Pocasset Manufacturing Company
Postcard, Pocasset Manufacturing Company (1821-1926), Fall River, Massachusetts, Mill #1, constructed 1847, destroyed by fire, February 2, 1928. Tinted calotype on paper. Litho-Chrome Company, Lepzig and Berlin, Germany, published by The Rhode Island News Company, Providence, Rhode Island, circa 1910.
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