Wamsutta Mills (Cotton Mill), New Bedford, Mass. [insurance map]

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Title:
Wamsutta Mills (Cotton Mill), New Bedford, Mass. [insurance map]
Description:
Associated Mutual Insurance Companies. Wamsutta Mills (Cotton Mill), New Bedford, Mass. Boston, Mass.: Associated Mutual Insurance Companies, 1920. Surveyed March 22, 1920. Surveyed by O. F. Freeman. 2 sheets. Includes plan of buildings (with dimensions), elevation views of individual buildings (with functions of building floors and rooms), and surroundings, including many tenements and dwellings. Also includes description of property, power and fuel, stock and product, and extensive description of existing water sources and fire protection resources. Includes side sketch showing pumps & piping N.W. No. 3 Picker Ho. (sketch scale 1:360, 1 in. = 30 ft.). Lacks isometric view of buildings. Two sheets should be viewed together. Pencilled above the title: "M. Lowenstein & Sons." Pencilled in lower right corner of both sheets: "Cancelled." Serial number (left sheet) 13803 (original tracing), replaces 7320 & 7321; serial number (right sheet) 13804 (original tracing), replaces 7320. Index numbers (both sheets) 14088-9. Scale 1:720, 1 in. = 60 ft. 53.5 x 67.5 cm. (each sheet individually); 107 x 67.5 cm. (both sheets together). (OCLC)
Author:
Associated Mutual Insurance Companies
Date:
1920
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Genre:
Fire insurance maps
Location:
American Textile History Museum
Collection (local):
Osborne Library
Subjects:
Cotton manufacture
Textile factories
Fire risk assessment
Insurance surveys
Wamsutta Mills
Places:
Bristol (county) > New Bedford
Extent:
2 sheets : map ; 68 x 54 cm
Terms of Use:
Rights status not evaluated.
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Place of origin:
Boston, Mass.
Language:
English
Notes (ownership):
The American Textile History Museum closed in 2016. This item has been transferred to the Osher Map Library at the University of Southern Maine.
Notes (object):
Condition: Good
Accession #:
0000.1506.128.1