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1905-1913
GUSN-310351
This collection contains fabric swatches, fabric designs, and a few fashion drawings that were designed or collected by Arabella Chandler McClintock Bellamy, who resided in Dorchester, Massachusetts in the early twentieth century. The fabric samples and designs most likely date from 1909 to 1915. The collection includes samples of printed fabrics, hand painted and hand-drawn designs for fabrics, and costume designs. Cocheco Manufacturing, a company that printed textiles in Dover, New Hampshire, produced many of the fabrics. Some of the fabric samples lists the fabrics material type, and most have a four digit identifier. The fabric samples and designs include a wide variety of color and patterns. The fabric samples and designs are intricate and beautifully done, reflecting the styles of the time period.
cloth
textiles
design elements
fashion design
fashion illustrations (layout features)
cloth
1.5 linear feet (1 print box)
An electronic finding aid is available through Historic New England's Collections Access Portal. A paper finding aid is available in the Library & Archives.
Donated by Robert Severy, grandson of Arabella Chandler McClintok Bellamy
GC006
Arabella Chandler McClintock Bellamy Fabric Design Collection, 1905-1913
2015
GC006
This collection contains fabric samples, fabric designs, and a few fashion drawings by Arabella Chandler McClintock of Dorchester, Massachusetts.
Gift of Robert Severy, 2015.
Dorchester (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
Probably Bellamy, Arabella Chandler McClintok, 1878-1962 (Artist, Designer)
fashion illustrations (layout features)
cloth
Bellamy, Arabella Chandler McClintok, 1878-1962
Cocheco Manufacturing Company
This collection is available for research.
There are no physical or technical restrictions on this collection.
Collection
Accruals are not expected.
Materials are entirely in English
Item identification. Box #, folder #. Arabella McClintock Bellamy Fabric Design Collection (GC006) Historic New England, Library & Archives.
Stephanie Krauss, 2017
This finding aid is 2nd addition DACS-compliant.
Arabella Chandler McClintock Bellamy was born on August 18, 1878, in Concord, New Hampshire. She attended high school and later moved to Dorchester, Massachusetts, where she worked as a designer for the Cocheco Manufacturing Company. The company produced printed textiles out of their factory in Dover, New Hampshire. Beginning in the 1840s, Lawrence & Co. acted as an agent and quality control for Cocheco. Cocheco was acquired by Pacific Mills in 1909. Arabella later married Robert B. Bellamy, who worked as a surveyor with the Works Progress Administration. They had a daughter, Josephine, in 1915. Arabella is not listed as a fabric designer in the 1930 or 1940 United States Federal Census, so she may have ceased designing when her daughter was born. Arabella died on November 15, 1962, in South Braintree, Massachusetts.
U.S. Census Bureau (1930) United States Federal Census. Retrieved from ancestry.com\n
U.S. Census Bureau (1940) United States Federal Census. Retrieved from ancestry.com
Bellamy Family Papers, 1861 - 1960. University Archives and Special Collections Department, Joseph P. Healey Library, University of Massachusetts Boston.
The collection is arranged as follows:
Folder 1.1: Samples of Cocheco printed fabrics
Folder 1.2: Samples of Cocheco printed fabrics
Folder 1.3: Designs for printed fabrics
Folder 1.4: Designs for printed fabrics
Folder 1.5: Designs for costumes
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