40. Salmon Falls Mfg. Co., Cotton Mill, Rollinsford, N.H. (# 15154), surveyed June 12, 1922
Associated Mutual Insurance Co., 1922
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The Salmon Falls Manufacturing Company in Rollinsford, New Hampshire, was surveyed June 12, 1922. This plan includes several different views of the mill. The birds-eye drawing near the legend shows the buildings’ proximity to the river, and provides cursory information about each one. The collection of buildings on the left are mainly storage, while “No. 1 Mill” is flanked by the boiler and hydro-electric power houses. “No. 2 Mill” sits nearby, with the picker house adjoined. The machine and carpenter shops, offices and more storage buildings sit behind the mills, with the edge of the neighboring tenements visible just beyond. According to the textual narrative, the company processed raw cotton materials using 48,012 spindles and 150 plain looms.
A series of “side sketches” or insets fill the space above the birds-eye view. Several of the buildings are shown in more detail, as well as the 67,000 gallon standpipe. Continuing upwards, a drawing of the mill complex’s entire footprint details the size of each building and the equipment they hold. It also reveals the surrounding infrastructure– an 11,000 gallon fuel tank is buried near the turbine room, while electric car tracks and steam pipe ducts criss-cross the page. The cross sections at the top of the page, rendered simply in blue ink, detail the contents of each building and the specific functions of each space.
41. Rollinsford – Salmon Falls, NH: Photographic view from the Boston & Maine trestle bridge
[unknown author], ca. 1900
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42. Rebecca Thompson: Employee contract for No. 1 weaving room, Salmon Falls Manufacturing Company, April 7, 1851
[unknown author], 1851
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43. Rollinsford-Salmon Falls: Mill workers in front of Mill No. 2
[unknown author], Ca. 1890s
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44. Rollinsford-Salmon Falls: Mill No. 2 Picker
[unknown author], Ca. 1890s.
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The picker removed foreign matter such as seeds and earth as part of the process to reduce any contaminants that may make it to the textile mill
45. Mills of Salmon Falls Mfg. Co., Salmon Falls, N.H.
[unknown author], undated
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Postcard published by G.W. Nutter. Postcard of 3rd Street with a boarding house on the right
