Remnants of Arlington Mills Wool Process Display, 1940
date: label: date made
content: 1940
name: label: maker
content: Arlington Mills
notes: label: Description
content: Photographs and title cards from a display board of Yarn Processing, originally put together by Arlington Mills. (NB: This object was taken apart and the fiber, yarn and fabric samples were disposed of, as was the case, in March 1998. The case was heavily infested with carpet beetles.)
label: Description
content: Description of Original object from Collection Records: “Worsted Cloth Manufacture”, “Wooden panel upon which are mounted 42 process specimens, beginning with raw wool, through the successive stages required to prepare the yarns suitable for use as warp and weft, and the woven cloth in the raw, dyed, and finished; together with 24 photographs of the various machines used in these operations." It appears that all that now remains are the photographs and title cards. [NB: 11 samples of woolen fabrics with Arlington Mills labels attached were found in a 1980 inventory and thought to be from this display board. They were assigned Division of Textiles catalog numbers T.20209 through T.20219]
label: Description
content: Arlington Mills, successor to Arlington Woolen Mills, was one of the premier woolen and worsted companies in the US for many decades. The mills were in and around Lawrence, MA, and company headquarters was in Boston. American manufacturers of woolen and worsted yarns and of woven and knitted textiles relied on both American-grown wool and on imports of raw wool and partially processed wool fiber, called "tops", American growers never produced more than about half the raw wool needed by the American manufacturing sector.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Lawrence
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Arlington Mills through Franklin W. Hobbs
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T08441.00B
label: catalog number
content: T08441.000
label: accession number
content: 156619
label: catalog number
content: T8441
objectType: label: Object Name
content: wool processing display board
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall:mounted image: 1/8 in x 4 3/4 in x 7 1/2 in; .3175 cm x 12.065 cm x 19.05 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall:exhibit label, minimum: 1/8 in x 2 3/4 in x 4 1/2 in; .3175 cm x 6.985 cm x 11.43 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall:exhibit label, maximum: 1/8 in x 2 in x 5 1/4 in; .3175 cm x 5.08 cm x 13.335 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: photograph: 1/8 in x 4 in x 4 in; .3175 cm x 10.16 cm x 10.16 cm