Scope and Content:
The Development Council manufacturing and industry photographs consists primarily of 8" x 10" black-and-white photographs of manufacturing and industrial parks and sites, c. 1950-1980. This subseries includes black-and-white photographs of A.T. Cross (1058 Broad Street, Providence), Apponaug Co., Hope Webbing Co., American Boat (Warwick), Barreled Sunlight Paint Co., Rice’s Mill White, Wanskuck [Mill], Woonsocket [Mill?] (credit Boston Herald), Berkshire (Warren), Desitin Chemical Co. (Branch Av., Providence, c. 1959), H. Leach Manufacturing Co., Royal Electric (Woonsocket), Victor Electric (Coventry), Uxbridge (Pascoag), Lymansville (North Providence), King Phillip (Lincoln), Berkshire Hathaway (Valley Falls, Cumberland), Nicholson File, Potter Johnson, Quonset Point (Davisville) in North Kingstown, Fram, North Central Air Park, Leesona Corporation, American Tourister (artist’s rendition), Coronet Themogravers, Durastone, and Woonsocket Dress Manufacturing Co., Inc., Huntington Expressway Industrial Park (Providence), Grossman’s (North Kingstown ?), Smithfield Industrial Park (proposed)Almeida’s Industrial Park (East Providence), Fairground Site (North Kingstown), Laudati Industrial Park (East Providence), R.I. Sand & Gravel (Warwick)showing interstate 95 and Airport Connector Road, New Woonsocket, Pettaconsett, McCoy Park (before and during construction, baseball stadium), Burrillville Industrial Park (sign), Moshassuck, West River (prior to erection of the Turnkey Post Office), Westerly, Central Plaza opposite Tollgate & Centerville Roads (Warwick), Cumberland, (proposed), Apponaug Central Plaza, Berkley, Woonsocket (proposed), North Central Industrial Air Park (proposed, includes map), Warwick Industrial Park, Camp & Cardi (Warwick), Brown & Sharpe (proposed - North Kingstown), Weyhaeuser Timber Company in Portsmouth (5x7), Warwick Industrial Area (R.I. Sand & Gravel), Westerly Airport Industrial Park, Almeida’s Industrial Park in East Providence, McChase Park in North Kingstown, Central Plaza in Warwick, Central R.I. Industrial Park in Coventry, Hillsgrove Industrial Park in Warwick, Laudati Industrial Park in East Providence, North Central Air Park, New Woonsocket Industrial Park, Smithfield [Industrial Park}, Berkeley, Cumberland [Industrial Park], West River Industrial Park in Providence and Narragansett Bay (Field’s Point), Advanced Micro-Electronics Inc., American Tube & Controls Inc., American Welding Inc., Ansom Men’s Jewelry Products, Apex Department Store (color-faded), Bay Way Responsive, Bloom, Bostich, Bristol Mfg., Brown & Sharpe (North Kingstown), Bulova, C.C. Brunnckow Co., Carter Rice Storrs & Bement (Printing & Industrial Paper), Chase Foster, Chemical Products Corp.(color-faded), Clifford Metal Sales Co., Inc., Collyer, Coronet Technogravers, Edcomb Steel (No. Smithfield), Carbon Technology Inc., East Greenwich Dairy Co.(color-faded), Electrix, Engineerd Yarns, Foremost Lithograph, Fram, Geigy Chemical Corp., General Controls Inc.(color-faded), Grant Mowrey Meters, H & H (Bowerman Bros., Inc.), Hart Engineering Co., Hasbro, Hassenfeld Bros., Inc., Hope Plastics Co., Industrial Product $ Engineering co., Inc., Jay Printing and Lithograph Co., Jewel Case,Kaiser Aluminum, Leesona Corporation, Leviton Mfg. (Warwick), Mark Steven Inc., Maynard & Co., Buckley & Scott Inc., Mear Thane Products Corp., Morrow Colorplate (color-faded), Narragansett Speck Building (color), Nicholson File Company, P.M. & E. Electronics Inc., Pak-All (color), Phelps Dodge, Plastic Materials & Polymers Inc. of New England, Providence Gravure Inc., Puritan, Raytheon Oceans Systems Center, RI Carbide & Tool Co., RI Plating Works, Electromatic Parts Inc., Rivocor Inc., RJ Mfg. Co., Inc., St. Regis Paper Company., Samsan Co., Sealol (EG & G), Speidel/Textron, Techni-Rite Electronics (Division of Gulton Industries Inc.), United State Silver Corp., U.S. Ring Traveler Co., Varqas, Warner Slimwear, W.L. Mead, A & Z Chain Company (Providence), Amperex Electronic Corp. (Slatersville), Brown & Sharpe (Providence), ederal Products Corp. (Providence), Geigy Chemical Corp. (Cranston-Warwick), Gorham Mfg. Co., Lessona Corp. (Warwick), Puritan Aerosol Corp. (Berkely - Cumberland), Raytheon Company (Portsmouth), Speidel Corporation, and other unidentified sites. Views of workers include silversmith (probably of Gorham Mfg., 1956), textile workers and seamstresses preparing linings.<br />Also included are two aeriel views of the North Kingstown Industrial Park, one interior view of a worker, and two negatives showing and aerial view of Quonset, a worker welding, exterior view of the Federal Laboratory Building in Quonset, North Kingstown. Additionally, a photograph of a worker manipulating a atomic absorption spectrophotometer (an instrument used to determine the distribution of energy in a spectrum of luminous radiation).
