Background on Brackett and Shuff
The firm of Brackett and Shuff manufactured moldings, doors, and sashes in Lowell, Massachusetts, during the 1840s.
Scope of collection
This slender ledger includes sparse accounts (fewer than 30p.) of millwork done by Brackett and Shuff, documenting the manufacture of moldings, doors, and sashes. Crudely kept and only partly filled out, it includes some records of setting up machinery, including tempering plane irons and truing shoulder saws. Brackett and Shuff may be the sash and door manufacturer alluded to in Henry A. Miles' Lowell As It Was and As It Is (1845, p.58).
Administrative information
Access
The collection is open for research.
Provenance
Acquired from Dan Casavant, 1999.
Processing Information
Processed by Dex Haven, August 2009.
Language:
EnglishCopyright and Use (More information )
Cite as: Brackett and Shuff Ledger (MS 487 bd). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
Search terms
Subjects
- Lowell (Mass.)--Economic conditions--19th century.
- Millwork (Woodwork)--Massachusetts.
Contributors
- Brackett and Shuff. [main entry]
- Brackett, John B.
- Shuff, Allison S.
- Brackett and Shuff.
Genres and formats
- Ledgers.
