Skip to main content

Mills and mill-work -- Rhode Island

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

David L. Aldrich business records

 Collection — Box Multi-Collection Box: [Barcode: 31116021976854]
Identifier: 085-02
Scope and Contents

The collection includes business records including correspondence, receipts for payments and insurance policies. The records related primarily to the Hope Valley Manufacturing Co., but also include documents relating to Aldrich’s purchase of the Plainville Mill in 1874.

Dates: 1867 - 1877

Rhode Island Mills and Mill Villages Photograph Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 002-03-03
Scope and Contents This collection is comprised of negatives, glossy photographic prints, and oversized photographic prints of mills and mill villages within Rhode Island. All of the photographs were taken by Joseph McCarthy as a Federal Works Agency project, a part of the WPA, in 1940 and given to the Providence Public Library as part of the Nickerson Architectural Collection that same year. A written reference work listing the prints and including an essay of the various architectural styles seen in the...
Dates: 1940