Westbrook Manufacturing Company And Haskell Silk Company Of Westbrook Me Collection

Consists of materials related to the Westbrook Manufacturing Company and the Haskell Silk Company. Additional notes added by the donor (Jacqueline Field). Contains letters, articles, photographs, and minimal genealogy of the Haskell family. Also includes information and an overview of a book written by Field, Marjorie Senechal, and Madelyn Shaw, "American Silks, 1830-1930: Entrepreneurs and Artifacts (2007). The Westbrook Manufacturing Company was in existence from the 1830s through ca. 1870. It became the Haskell Silk Company, which manufactured silk and satin textiles in Westbrook, Me., from 1874 to 1918.