Trade catalog issued by the Whitin Machine Works of Whitinsville, Massachusetts, in 1917, describing its line of textile machinery and including a handbook of useful information for manufacturers and engineers. It covers the processes of cotton manufacture in order: opening and mixing, picking, carding, combing, drawing, roving, spinning, spooling, twisting, reeling, quilling and weaving. Later sections cover waste and wool machinery, worsted roving and miscellaneous items. Each section has photographs and line drawings of machines, floor plans, specifications, floor spaces, belting and weight data, and production tables. The weaving section describes Whitin looms (heavy pattern, wide, end-cam, dobby, gingham, fancy box and duck looms) and related devices.

Illustrated and descriptive catalog of Whitin cotton combing machinery, 1922 edition, issued by the Whitin Machine Works of Whitinsville, Massachusetts, with a handbook of information for overseers and operatives. It describes the sliver lap machine, the ribbon lap machine, the Model E (Nasmith type) comber and the Model D-2 (Whitin type) comber, with photographs, floor plans, gearing diagrams, draught tables and production tables. It also gives step-by-step setting directions, draught and production formulae, horse power figures, supervision regulations, care and oiling instructions, top-roll varnish recipes, and ordering and shipping information.