Description from the donor -
“A small (4 1/4" X 6 3/4") clothbound notebook containing many pages of notes, measurements and sketches of a number of different 'wagons' that were used to move bolts of material around in what I believe was the Lower Pacific Mills in Lawrence, MA. There are references to a 'warp room', 'spooling room', a wool washing room and so on. There is a handwritten note inside the notebook written on Lower Pacific Mills notepaper dated May 22,1900 addressed to G. H. James from George Oliver that includes a detailed sketch of a wagon and an order, including measurements, for this wagon to be built. The notebook also includes a few bits of what appear to be sample color swatches on paper and a detail of a design pattern that I cannot identify but are somehow related to the work being done at the mill.
This little notebook is in poor/fair condition and was rescued by my late mother, Joyce Butler, a well-known writer and local historian in southern Maine who also was the Curator at the Maine Historical Society and worked at the Brick Store Museum in Kennebunk for several years. I discovered it while going through her records following her death in 2023 and feel that it may belong in your archives.”