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L. A. Lockwood Company Phillipsdale, R.I. Business records, 1899 - 1931. Size: .25 ft. Catalog number: MSS 6 sg 17 Processed by: Harold E. Kemble, August 1977. ©Rhode Island Historical Society Manuscripts Division |
Historical note:
The L. A. Lockwood Company manufactured cotton goods and was an outlet for remnants and overages. A sales office was located in Boston; the mill appears to have been at the Crefeld Mills in Westerly, Rhode Island and later at Phillipsdale. Frank A. Sayles owned the largest block of shares. The rest were issued in the names of Crefeld Waste & Batting Company, Benjamin Fessenden, Charles Otis Read, and C. A. Dexter.
Bibliography:
Rhode Island Historical Society, Manuscript Collection, Inventories of MSS 6 Records of Sayles Finishing Plants, Sub-group 9.
Scope and content:
The contents of the single Condensed Business Record and Stock Record include summary financial records of the company. The stock records are only as of February 1917.
Provenance:
Gift of Sayles Finishing Plants, December 25, 1971.
Inventory:
Item 1. Condensed Business Record and Stock Record May 1899 - Dec 1931
Subjects:
Business records - Rhode Island - Phillipsdale.
Business records - Rhode Island - Westerly.
Cotton-waste.
Crefeld Mills Corporation.
Crefeld Waste & Batting Company.
Dexter, C.A.
Fessenden, Benjamin.
Read, Charles Otis, 1846-1926.
Sayles Finishing Plants.
Sayles, Frank Arthur, 1866-1920.
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