(INDUSTRY--TEXTILES) An archive of four albums with approximately 350 photographs from Parks and Woolson Machine Company, a Vermont firm that specialized in textile manufacturing appliances. The archive documents the company's production from the 1920s through the 1950s, including images of the various machines manufactured in use and in the environs of factories. A few with workers positioned nearby, and many shown with textiles emerging or positioned within the apparatus. Some of the photographs with labels describing the function of the machine and the customer for which the machine was made. Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 7 1/2x9 1/2 inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), and the reverse, the sheets slightly larger, many affixed together recto/verso with tape at the edges and some in plastic sleeves, many with a numeric notation in the negative and some with caption labels affixed to the lower corners of print recto. Oblong black leatherette albums (4), each with a cloth label on the backstrip, metal three-ring binding. 1920s-50s
Parks and Woolson, manufacturers of woolen cloth finishing machinery, was established in 1829 and closed in 2003. It was the oldest machine shop in Springfield, VT and located on the Black River for its water power.
