Matches in Harvard for { ?s ?p The Peace Dale Manufacturing Company records contain bound volumes and unbound manuscripts relating to five generations of the Hazard family's ownership and operation of a textile business located in Peace Dale, Rhode Island. The collection includes financial material, production and payroll records, correspondence, family deeds and trusts, and investments and business ventures of Hazard family members. The records highlight the progression from a small textile mill to a large manufacturing company forged built on relationships made with Southern plantation owners and their desire for custom slave clothing and shoes. Within the collection are swatches of textiles in many different colors, patterns, and thickness. Included are the records of the Narragansett Pier Railroad Company, a small railway, owned and operated by the Hazard family include administrative. The bulk of the material relates to their ownership and management of the southern Rhode Island textile manufacturing firm throughout the 19th century including general accounting and production records, orders, sales, and correspondence with firm's selling agents: S. B. and Buffum (1854), Jenkins and Huntington (1860), Fairbanks and Martin (1871), and Martin and Buffum (1885).. }
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- catalog description "The Peace Dale Manufacturing Company records contain bound volumes and unbound manuscripts relating to five generations of the Hazard family's ownership and operation of a textile business located in Peace Dale, Rhode Island. The collection includes financial material, production and payroll records, correspondence, family deeds and trusts, and investments and business ventures of Hazard family members. The records highlight the progression from a small textile mill to a large manufacturing company forged built on relationships made with Southern plantation owners and their desire for custom slave clothing and shoes. Within the collection are swatches of textiles in many different colors, patterns, and thickness. Included are the records of the Narragansett Pier Railroad Company, a small railway, owned and operated by the Hazard family include administrative. The bulk of the material relates to their ownership and management of the southern Rhode Island textile manufacturing firm throughout the 19th century including general accounting and production records, orders, sales, and correspondence with firm's selling agents: S. B. and Buffum (1854), Jenkins and Huntington (1860), Fairbanks and Martin (1871), and Martin and Buffum (1885).".