ca. 1866
GUSN-191285
Below the image the text reads "Lawrence & Co., Boston."The label features a pair of women dressed in Greco-Roman style seated in front of smokestacks and a large cog. One woman has painted a design and the other is holding a bolt of fabric with the same design patterned on it.
advertising
business (commercial function)
textile materials
cotton (textile)
mills (buildings)
labels (identifying artifacts)
1 label
EP001
Ephemera collection
EP001.01.114.01.02.025
Cocheco (Strafford county, New Hampshire)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Cocheco Mills
labels (identifying artifacts)
Cocheco Manufacturing Company
W.H.Bunting, The Camera's Coast: Historic Images of Ship and Shore in New England (Boston: Historic New England, 2006) pg. 128.
Item
Cocheco Mills was in Dover, New Hampshire and produced printed cotton cloth and cotton printed fabrics. It was later purchased by the Pacific Mills in Lawrence. The American Textile History Museum has records of the Cocheco Mills. According to American Textile History Museum librarian Clare Sheridan, this is a cloth label, c. 1866. The label would have been adhered to a bolt of cloth for sale at the retail level.
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