The Barre Wool Combing Company, Limited, South Barre, Mass. [insurance map]

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The Barre Wool Combing Company, Limited, South Barre, Mass. [insurance map]

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Title:
The Barre Wool Combing Company, Limited, South Barre, Mass. [insurance map]
Description:
Associated Factory Mutual Fire Insurance Companies. The Barre Wool Combing Company, Limited, South Barre, Mass. Boston, Mass.: Associated Factory Mutual Fire Insurance Companies, 1945. Surveyed August 25, 1944. Surveyed by J. C. Clark; traced by A. D. Rosenbaum. Additional data from R. Goodwin, February 20, 1945. 1 sheet. Includes plan of buildings (with dimensions), elevation views of individual buildings (with functions of building floors and rooms), and surroundings. Also includes brief description of property, power, stock and product, and existing water sources and fire protection resources. Includes side sketch "A" showing D.P.V. & connections in stair tower at No. 2 & No. 8 (not to scale), and side sketch "B" showing substation east of No. 3 (sketch scale 1:2400, 1 in. = 200 ft.). Lacks isometric view of buildings. Serial number 31808, replaces 27180. Index number 11212. Scale 1:720, 1 in. = 60 ft. 68 x 53 cm. (OCLC)
Author:
Associated Factory Mutual Fire Insurance Companies
Date:
1945
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Genre:
Fire insurance maps
Location:
American Textile History Museum
Collection (local):
Osborne Library
Subjects:
Textile factories
Fire risk assessment
Insurance surveys
Woolen and worsted manufacture
Barre Wool Combing Co., Ltd.
Places:
Worcester (county) > Barre
Extent:
1 sheet : col. map ; 53 x 68 cm
Terms of Use:
Rights status not evaluated.
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Place of origin:
Boston, Mass.
Language:
English
Notes:
The Barre Wool Combing Company produced wool and rayon tops (balls of woolen or rayon slivers). South Barre is a village in the town of Barre, Mass.
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 - but marred with glue residue from pieces pasted on
Accession #:
1994.91.618