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Windham Textile & History Museum
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The Windham Textile and History Museum (The Mill Museum of Connecticut), located in the historic former headquarters of the American Thread Company of Willimantic, Connecticut, is a non-profit educational institution housing a museum, a library, and an archive. Through its exhibits, programs, and collections, the museum preserves and interprets the history of textiles, textile arts and the textile industry, with special emphasis on the experiences of the craftspeople, industrial workers, manufacturers, inventors, designers, and consumers. The museum also promotes greater understanding of major trends and changes in technology, economy, immigration, society, environment, and culture that shaped Connecticut, New England, and the United States from the colonial period to the present.
Windham Textile & History Museum
All of the items digitized herein are from the collection of and, and are the property of, the Windham Textile and History Museum, 411 Main Street, Willimantic, CT, 06226. All of the digital images herein are also the property of the Windham Textile and History Museum. Permission is hereby granted to users of this site to download and copy any of the images found herein, provided that it is only for personal use and/or is for educational purposes under the "fair use" doctrine, and that the user includes a statement attributing the image as "from the collection of the Windham Textile and History Museum, Willimantic, CT." None of the images may be used for commercial purposes without the prior permission of the Windham Textile and History Museum.
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