American Textile History Museum

The American Textile History Museum will accession, catalogue, and scan 2,600 photographs of textile workers, textile mills and machinery, and views of textile cities and towns from the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as 1,950 insurance maps of textile mills dating from 1872 to 1953. Images and information will then be uploaded to the museum’s website. This project constitutes the final phase of a four-phase effort to improve intellectual control of and online access to the museum’s library and curatorial collections through the Chace Catalogue. The materials will be of particular interest to architects and renovators of mill buildings, engineers, urban planners, historians, textile artists and designers, and genealogists, as well as teachers, students, publishers, filmmakers, and exhibit designers.