DONATION OF NEWCOMB LITTLE DAISY LOOM TO CALDWELL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY

WE RECIEVED THE LITTLE DAISY LOOM FROM THE FAMILY OF MRS BLANCHE LOWERY (BRAYMER, MO) MRS LOWERY WAS STILL MAKING RUGS ON THE LOOM AS OF 2000. MRS LOWERY TOLD HER FAMILY THAT SHE WANTED THE LOOM TO STAY IN CALDWELL COUNTY. AFTER WE RECIEVED THE LOOM FROM THE LOWERY FAMILY, WE ASKED THE HISTORIC LOOMS OF AMERICA TO RESEARCH THE SERIAL NUMBER OF THE LOOM AND THE FOLLOWING CERTIFICATION IS WHAT THEY PROVIDED TO US. WE HAVE THE LOOM ON DISPLAY IN OUR CIRCA 1860 HISTORICAL HOUSE IN KINGSTON, MO. THERE IS A PICTURE OF THE LOOM AS IT IS DISPLAYED IN OUR HISTORICAL HOUSE.

TO SEE A PICTURE OF THE LOOM CLICK ON THIS LINK https://www.legacystories.org/images/photos/2706/dscn0983.jpg https://www.legacystories.org/images/photos/2706/880/thumb_f157514fb63d815152b6f6e1.jpg

Greetings

Here is the information about your loom’s original owner:

Your Newcomb Little Daisy, #04723 was sold to Mrs. Lyman R. Ford of Brayner,

Missouri on August 3, 1927. [No other address given.] The ledger listed that she paid

$70.00 for her loom.

 

 

Were subsequent owners of this loom noted in the Newcomb ledger? No.

A bit of information about your certificate: the illustration of the Newcomb

Factory in Davenport, Iowa, comes from the original print block used in the

Newcomb Loom catalogues published at the turn of the twentieth century.

The river in the background is the Mississippi, and the land on the far side of

it, is the state of Illinois. Evident in the lower left corner of the picture, is a

horse cart hauling away a newly completed loom [perhaps it was yours!],

and the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad line is steaming away in

the foreground. Stacks of raw lumber are piled to the right of the factory,

ready to be made into new looms. Thank you for helping to preserve the

history of one of the most important handloom companies in America, the

Newcomb Loom Company of Davenport, Iowa. We wish you good

weaving!

Historic Looms of

America 10619 Sterling Road

Sedro-Woolley, WA 98284

This certifies that Caldwell County Historical Society

is the owner of a Newcomb Loom: No. 04723, Model:

Little Daisy. This loom was shipped from the

Newcomb factory in Davenport, Iowa, on August 3,

1927, and is hereby registered with the Newcomb

Looms Historical Society on October 29, 2011.

Theresa Lee Trebon Janet Meany

Founders

1986

Certificate No. 817

 

 

 

 

 

 

Come And Sit, Friends And Neighbors
Aunt Mary and the Hinman Place
 

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Golden V. Adams Jr. (website) on Tuesday, 03 July 2012 16:33

What a unique loom! I believe it was like the one that my grandmother had her first "carpet" made on. She saved rags for a long time, and then paid to have them put together in a carpet that was used in their little house on the Malad River in East Garland, Utah a bit earlier than this loom, probably in the previous decade.

What a unique loom! I believe it was like the one that my grandmother had her first "carpet" made on. She saved rags for a long time, and then paid to have them put together in a carpet that was used in their little house on the Malad River in East Garland, Utah a bit earlier than this loom, probably in the previous decade.
Tom Cormier (website) on Sunday, 05 August 2012 18:37

I mean Wow!

I mean Wow!