Pepperell Mills | McArthur Public Library

0056 - Print, Photographic

Saco-Lowell shops, Biddeford, 1910. The dark corner of one of the Pepperell Mill buildings is visible at far left. View of the Saco River falls and power dams, from the vantage point of the Biddeford side of the Saco, looking upriver. [Also BW 3.5" x 5" film copy negative]

Record Type: Photo

0077a - Print, Photographic

Spinning, Laconia Division - Pepperell Mills, Biddeford, December 1910. [Also BW 3.5" x 5" film copy negative]

Record Type: Photo

0077b - Negative, Glass Plate

Spinning, Laconia Division and workers there - Pepperell Mills, December 1910.

Record Type: Photo

0077c - Print, Photographic

Spinning room, Pepperell Mills, Biddeford in 1910.

Record Type: Photo

0077d - Print, Photographic

Spinning, Laconia Division - Pepperell Mills, Biddeford, December 1910.

Record Type: Photo

0078a - Negative, Glass Plate

Web-drawing in the Laconia Division - Pepperell Mills, 1910.

Record Type: Photo

0078b - Print, Photographic

Spinning in the Laconia Division of the Pepperell Mills, December 1910. [Also BW 3.5" x 5" film copy negative]

Record Type: Photo

0079 - Print, Photographic

Interior view of Laconia Division at Pepperell Mills, Biddeford, 1910.

Record Type: Photo

0080 - Print, Photographic

The Looms in the Laconia Division of the Pepperell Mills, December 27, 1910.

Record Type: Photo

0104a - Negative, Glass Plate

World War I. Biddeford police heading parade of the 7th Company, C.A.C. on July 27, 1917. Striding down Main Street next to the Pepperell Mill's Laconia Division buildings.

Record Type: Photo

0104c - Negative, Glass Plate

World War I. Parade forming on Main Street, Biddeford, for the departure of the 7th Company, C.A.C. for Fort William, July 27, 1917. *This group assembling could be the Laurier Rifles*.

Record Type: Photo

0197b - Negative, Glass Plate

City Building, Biddeford, 1909. The Biddeford Fire Department is testing a new engine; an Atlantic Shore Line railway freight car is also visible. Some of the onlookers in wagons are thought to be farmers delivering produce to the freight car.

Record Type: Photo

0370d - Negative, Sheet Film

Weaving loom, Pepperell Mills, circa 1900. (Probably part of Richard Gay collection.) A copy negative made of a print, location unknown.

Record Type: Photo

0468 - Print

Mill Agents house on Adams Street, Biddeford built over 1847-1849 for the agents of the Pepperell Manufacturing Company. This image appeared in the 1907 publication "Biddeford, Saco, Kennebunk and Kennebunkport Souvenir" (1907). Home where agent Robert McArthur died.

Record Type: Photo

0483 - Print

Jane Morgan, singer/actress visits the Pepperell Mills, Biddeford, circa 1950. Jane Morgan (Jane Weintraub) was a very successful singer and entertainer, and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She has owned a home in Kennebunkport since 1958, and her brother founded the Kennebunkport Playhouse.

Record Type: Photo

0499 - Print, Photographic

Joseph Martin of Biddeford, 1955. Stamped on the back "P.L. Howard - Pepperell Mfg. Co. - Biddeford, Me. - Dec 2 1955". Hand-written on the back is: "Property of Charles J. Nannery - Joe retired from Pepperell at the age of 85. He worked in the Cloth Room as a Folder. He hired Rudy Vallee when he led the band at the Pier at Old Orchard."

Record Type: Photo

0584 - Negative, Sheet Film

Superintendents and Overseers of the Pepperell Mills, Biddeford, 1895. SITTING (L-R): Frank W. Cookson; John A. Wilson; Frank Libby; John R. Bonser; George K. Gibbs; Henry T. Spencer; Andrew A. Mason; Robert S. Donaldson. STANDING: John Campbell; John O'Dea, George F. Kenisston; Frank H. Staples; Frederick Greene; Charles D. Thurber; James B. Hanson; Thomas C. Bradbury; Andrew J. Goldthwait; and Mr. John Buckley, the famous "yard boss".

Record Type: Photo