Amos Abbott Company, Dexter, Maine

Amos Abbott Company, Dexter, Maine

Item Information

Title:
Amos Abbott Company, Dexter, Maine
Description:
Copy print of: Amos Abbott Company, Dexter, Maine. Gelatin silver print, [1975? original 1891]. Image depicts the Amos Abbott Company main building in Dexter, Maine, in the center, a three-story clapboard building with a four-story tower topped by a cupola containing a bell. Note the workman standing in the open doorway at the top of the tower. Tall brick chimney attached to the building to the left of the bell tower. Other smaller buildings in the foreground; note the tenter bars set into the hillside in the foreground. Houses can be seen behind the complex in the left and right background; water visible in the right background, probably the east branch of the Sebasticook River. "1891" written in lower left-hand corner, but this print probably generated for 1975 exhibit; see accession folder. Photographed from a hillside overlooking the company; see 0000.620.3 for almost the exact same viewpoint ca1920, and 0000.620.2 for the same view ca1874. Amos Abbott Company was a woolen manufacturer. 54.5 x 45.5 cm.
Date:
[1975?]
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Gelatin silver prints
Location:
American Textile History Museum
Collection (local):
Osborne Library
Subjects:
Woolen and worsted manufacture
Textile factories
Amos Abbott & Co.
Extent:
1 photograph ; 45.5 x 54.5 cm
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Notes (ownership):
The American Textile History Museum closed in 2016. This item has been transferred to the Kheel Center at Cornell University Library.
Notes (object):
Condition: Good - edges of photo beginning to wear
Accession #:
1111.42.31