Athol Historical Society
1307 Main Street
P. O. Box 21
Athol, MA 01331

Contact: Mary Cadwallader, Historical Society President
Phone library and leave message Tues.-Sat. at: 978-464-2115
Historical Society open hours at the library: Sat. 10-12
Services for the Disabled: Library is handicapped accessible

Furniture company materials

From “Businesses” folders:

• Business card (approx. 3” X 4”) for Rice, Barlow & Co. – “manufacturers of pine furniture and dealers in lumber for building purposes”
• Receipts – J. B. Cardany – “manufacturer and dealer in every variety of household furniture, parlor and chamber setts, upholstering…” --1865
• Receipt – H. Mann & Co. – 4/2/1871
• Receipt – J. Wesley Goods – “manufacturers of billiard tables and inlaid veneers for the trade” – 9/1/1893

Note: The Athol Historical Society has many photographs, some in albums. They are not yet fully catalogued, and there may be some furniture company photographs. There is also correspondence with Old Sturbridge Village about materials OSV has of Alden Spooner and Spooner & Fitts furniture. The Historical Society has a museum, with furniture pieces.