Bag
- Object Name:
- Bag
- Object ID:
- 1981.013.02
- Creator:
- Amoskeag Manufacturing Company
- Place of Origin:
- Manchester, NH
- Date:
- circa 1860
- Description:
- Bag. Machine-manufactured plain weave cotton, white with two vertical rows each of two blue stripes bordered with yellow, spaced 10.5" apart. Machine stitched, hemmed 0.5" at top. Braided cotton cord stitched to one side 4.5" down from top. Stencilled lettering on one side: "AMOSKEAG / SEAMLESS / A"; number "162" in gray paint in upper right. Stencilled lettering on other side: "NEW / [C]HOICE MEDIUM / HAND PICKED / & / SCREENED / D". Faded star-shaped stamp in black ink located on bag back under hem. Used for transport of food stuffs, mostly dry goods
- Material:
- Textile
Cotton - Dimensions:
- H-42 W-19 inches
- Provenance:
- Purchased by the New Hampshire Historical Society. From the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, Manchester, NH. The seamless bag loom was invented by Cyrus Baldwin (b. 1820), foreman of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company shops. In 1850, the company refitted a mill for bag manufacture using 260 Baldwin looms. Within a short time, Manchester was producing over 2,000,000 of these bags each year.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase
- People:
- Baldwin, Cyrus (1820- )
- Subjects:
- Textiles, Bags, Mills, Manufacturers, Manufacturing, Sacks, Cotton, Machine Woven, Machines, Milling, Food
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