Mount Wachusett Community College
444 Green Street
Gardner, MA 01440

Contact: Linda Oldach, Assistant Dean/Library and Information Services
Phone: 978-630-9126
FAX: 978-630-9556
E-mail: l_oldach@mwcc.mass.edu
Web site: www.mwcc.edu

Library hours: Mon.-Thu. 8 a.m.-5 p.m.; Fri. 8 a.m.-4 p.m.; some evening hours during fall and spring semesters

Services for the disabled: Americans with Disabilities Act accessible; handicapped parking

Furniture Special Collection

Contact: Linda Oldach
Holdings: Over 6,000 items/more than 110 cubic feet

Collection Description: Joseph Carr Collection

These are materials of Joseph Carr, furniture designer for Heywood-Wakefield Company, given to MWCC by Mr. Carr’s family. Date range of items is 1936, when Mr. Carr began work at Heywood-Wakefield, to 1992. Heywood-Wakefield closed in 1979, but Mr. Carr did free-lance design work from his home for other local companies, including S. Bent and George Bent.

• The largest part of the collection is 3,500 design drawings and sketches. Most are Mr. Carr’s, but a small number are by other designers of the 1930s-1950s, including Leo Jiranek, Count Alexis de Saknoffsky and Ernest Hermann.
• There are approximately 500 furniture catalogs and approximately 500 catalogs of hardware and accessories.
• There are 300-400 magazines and newspaper clippings, many with notes by Mr. Carr.
• There are approximately 1,000 photographs and photomechanicals, both black and white and color. Most are black and white photo stills for Heywood-Wakefield. There are also color prints from S. Bent and George Bent companies.
• There are approximately 100 file folders from Mr. Carr’s office files, with correspondence, specification sheets, drawings, notes, and price sheets.

Note: There are also about 300 hardware and 550 wooden samples in this collection.

Access: By appointment only. Contact Linda Oldach. Note: this collection is not yet completely processed but should be more accessible in the near future.