A set of eight trade advertisements for the Crompton & Knowles Loom Works of Worcester, Massachusetts, with branch works in Providence and Philadelphia. They promote power looms for plain and fancy fabrics, dobbies, jacquards, wool combs, and tapestry printing drums, with engravings of a gingham loom, a dobby loom, a carpet loom, a worsted loom, and other machines. One page lists the fabrics the looms weave, from cottons and ginglams to silks, carpets, and narrow ware.

A four-page sales brochure from Crompton & Knowles Loom Works for its automatic 4 x 1 box dobby dress goods loom, intended mainly for cotton dress fabrics. It gives general specifications (frame, dobby harness motion, box motion, magazine, drive, picking, lay, stop motions, let-off, take-up) and optional changes. It also includes a floor plan with dimensions and a list of the loom types and accessory machinery the company builds. The last page shows views of the company's factory complexes.

Four-page trade brochure from Crompton & Knowles Loom Works describing its Automatic Intermediate Worsted Loom for light to medium weight worsted fabrics up to 15 oz. It gives general specifications (frame, Knowles head motion with 25 harness, box motion, magazine, filling detector, drive, picking, let-off, take-up, selvage), optional changes, and available widths and box combinations. It includes a floor plan with dimensions for the 82-inch loom, a list of the loom types the firm built, and views of the company's works.

A cancelled stock certificate of the Crompton & Knowles Loom Works, a Massachusetts loom manufacturer, certifying ownership of 1,000 shares of common stock. The front carries an engraving of a power loom, countersignature by the Massachusetts National Bank at Worcester, and is dated December 31, 1926. The back has the preferences and voting-rights text and a 1936 assignment of the shares by the Industrial Trust Company, administrator of an estate, to a Providence woman, with revenue stamps and a cancellation stamp.

A four-page trade brochure from Crompton & Knowles Loom Works describing its narrow fabric looms for industrial weaving. It covers loom types for light and heavy webbing, belting, ribbon, elastic webbing, labels and novelty fabrics, along with harness motions (cam, Knowles head, dobby, jacquard) and motor drive. It also lists the many fabric types the company builds looms for and includes engravings of a loom and of the Worcester and Providence works.

Two-page set of ephemera showing the Crompton & Knowles Loom Works in Worcester, Massachusetts. Page 1 has two colored picture postcards of the factory, one showing a long multi-story red-brick mill with smokestacks. Page 2 is a black-and-white photograph of a single-story brick building with a central entrance pavilion, marked 1940. There is no weaving or technical content.