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Jamison Mills, John & James Hunter
| Name | Jamison Mills, John & James Hunter |
| Ortssitz | Norristown (Pa.) |
| Straße | DeKalb Street |
| Art des Unternehmens | Textilfabrik |
| Anmerkungen | Auch genannt "DeKalb Street Mills". Lage: DeKalb Street (Nordost-Ecke; Schuylkill River). Vergl. auch deren "Conestoga Print Works" (1872) und "Fairview Woolen Mills" (1883), beide West Philadelphia. Herstellung von Baumwollgarn und Handtüchern. Maschinen: 1 Öffner, 21 Selfaktoren (15336 Spindeln), 3 Zettelmaschinen, 1 Satz Dampftrockenzylinder, 1 rotierende Presse, zahlreiche Webstühle und Webereimaschinen (um 1883 teilweise in Betrieb). |
| Quellenangaben | [Hexamer General Surveys, Plate 1740 (1883)] [Bean: History of Montgomery County (1884) 582] |
| Produkt |
ab |
Bem. |
bis |
Bem. |
Kommentar |
| Baumwollgarn |
1883 |
[Hexamer] |
1883 |
[Hexamer] |
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| Handtücher |
1883 |
[Hexamer] |
1883 |
[Hexamer] |
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| Zeit |
Objekt |
Anz. |
Betriebsteil |
Hersteller |
Kennwert |
Wert |
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Beschreibung |
Verwendung |
| 1883 |
Dampfkessel |
8 |
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unbekannt |
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| Zeit |
gesamt |
Arbeiter |
Angest. |
Lehrl. |
männl. |
weibl. |
Kommentar |
| 1883 |
150 |
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halb Männer, halb Mädchen |
| ZEIT | 1884 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | Close to the bank of the river Schuylkill, at the Norristown end of the De Kalb Street bridge stand Hunter's Cotton Mills, James and John Hunter, proprietors. The wing of the mill, which looks towards the Schuylkill, is of stone, and was built by a joint stock company in 1836. The main building has a frontage on De Kalb Street of one hundred feet, a depth of fifty feet; is built of brick and is four stories in height. The company was succeeded by James Jamison, Sr., who devised the property by will to his son, William Jamison. This gentleman ran the business of cotton goods manufacturing until his death, when his widow, with Duncan White as superintendent, operated the mills until the great
panic of 1873, when American industry suffered so dreadful a shock and the business failed. The mill has a thorough outfit of machinery, a one hundred and twenty horse-power engine, with boilers in proportion, five hundred and sixty looms, with all the preparing machinery of cards, spinning frames, etc., required for the work. The mill, stock, machinery, etc., are valued at one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The Messrs. Hunter manufacture cotton yarns, employing nearly two hundred hands, and produce about seven hundred and fifty thousand pounds of cotton yarn annually; they pay monthly in wages about two thousand five hundred dollars. Messrs. Hunter purchased the mill in the year 1873, but did not put the works into operation until January, 1880. |
| QUELLE | [Bean: History of Montgomery County (1884) 582] |
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