American Woolen Company suiting and coating samples, 1912
date: label: date made
content: 1912
notes: label: Description
content: 14 samples of woven wool fabrics, bound with black tape by machine stitching. Woolen/Worsted wool suitings and coatings, manufactured by American Woolen Company's "National and Providence Worsted Mills" in Providence, Rhode Island. COLORS: 1. Brown, 2. Black, 3. Brown, 4. Brown/Black, 5. Dk grey, 6. Lt grey w/white pin stripe, 7. Black, 8..Dk grey, 9..Black w/red pin stripe, 10..Brown w/black pin stripe, 11. Very dk blue, 12. Greys, 13. Grey w/black diagonal stripe, 14. Brown
label: Description
content: These samples were woven by workers at the American Woolen Company's Providence, Rhode Island mill (The National and Providence Worsted Mills) at about the time the Lawrence Textile Strike (also known as the Bread and Roses strike) was taking place. American Woolen Company also owned the Washington Mill, Wood Mill, and Ayer Mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts, where workers were active in the strike..
label: Description
content: Manufactured by the National and Providence Worsted Mills, Providence, RI. The Providence and National Worsted Mills, founded in Rhode Island in the 1870s, were originally two companies owned by Charles Fletcher, one a spinning and one a weaving mill for working with worsted yarns. Fletcher amalgamated the two companies into one in 1893, and then sold this company to the large Lawrence-based American Woolen Company in 1899. When the Lawrence mill workers struck against pay cuts in 1912 (the Bread and Roses strike), the American Woolen Company was one of the firms affected. The Rhode Island mills, however, did not strike.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Rhode Island, Providence
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: American Textile Industry
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of American Woolen Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T00236.01-.14
label: accession number
content: 54882
label: catalog number
content: T00236.01-.014
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fabric samples
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wool (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: skein-dyed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 in x 26 in; 22.86 cm x 66.04 cm