Guide to the Draper Corporation Loom Catalogs, 1932

Descriptive Summary

Repository: North Carolina State University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center
Creator: Draper Corporation
Title: Draper Corporation Loom Catalogs, 1932 - 1949
Call Number: MC 24
Extent: 1.0 linear feet, 8 v.
Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Special Collections Research Center Reference Staff.
Language of Material: English

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Restrictions to Access

This collection is open for research.

Acquisitions Information

Transferred from Burlington Textiles Library, North Carolina State University, 2005 October (Accession no. 2005-0012).

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Draper Corporation Loom Catalogs, MC 24, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC

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Processing Information

Processed by Linda Sellars, 2005 October

Encoded by Linda Sellars, 2005 October

Historical Note

The Draper Corporation, based in Hopedale, Massachusetts, was incorporated in 1916, but predecessor companies had been manufacturing loom parts and other textile items, including temples and spindles, in Hopedale since the early 1800s. Draper had been a worldwide textile machinery technology leader from the development of ring spinning in the 1870s and 1880s through the development of automatic looms at the turn of the century and high-speed looms in the 1930s. It was a near monopoly producer of single-shuttle looms in its home market from the 1930s to the 1960s. In the 1960s, the Draper Corporation was the largest textile machine manufacturer in the United States. In 1967, the Draper Corporation was sold to Rockwell International.

Scope and Content Note

Seven loom catalogs, 1932 - 1949, and a volume of labelled photographs of sections of looms, from the Draper Corporation for the Textile School at North Carolina State College (now North Carolina State University), Raleigh, N.C. The catalogs each contain a copy of a loom order, followed by a detailed list of parts and labelled photographs of portions of the looms. The introductory text in the first four catalogs dates from 1932 and in the next three from 1939. The orders are dated 1937 Jan. 15 - 1949 Oct. 31.

Online Catalog Terms

Looms--Catalogs.
Textile machinery--Photographs.

Detailed Description of the Collection

Loom-Order No. 6521, Model XK, Size 40", 1 RH loom, 1932, 1937 Jan.15

[MC 0024 Series Box 1 , Volume 1]

Loom-Order No. 6680, Model X, Size 40", 2 LH looms, 1932, 1938 Feb. 10

[MC 0024 Series Box 1 , Volume 2]

Loom-Order No. 6681, Model X, Size 40", 1 LH loom, 1932, 1938 Feb. 11

[MC 0024 Series Box 1 , Volume 3]

Loom-Order No. 6682, Model XK, Size 44", 1 RH loom, 1932, 1938 Feb. 15

[MC 0024 Series Box 1 , Volume 4]

Loom-Order No. 7748, Model X-2, Size 44", 2 RH looms, 1939, 1947 Aug. 21

[MC 0024 Series Box 2 , Volume 1]

Loom-Order No. 7752, Model XP-Special, Size 46", 1 RH loom, 1939, 1947 Aug. 29

[MC 0024 Series Box 2 , Volume 2]

Loom-Order No. 8281, Model XL, Size 90", 1 LH loom, 1939, 1949 Oct. 31

[MC 0024 Series Box 2 , Volume 3]

Labeled photographs of parts of looms bound into volume, undated

[MC 0024 Series Box 2 , Volume 4]

Guide to the Draper Corporation Loom Catalogs, 1932 - 1949

Collection Number MC 24

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