Files containing correspondence, photographs, notes, and ephemera on various wind and water mills and related industries in the United States of America, Canada, and the Caribbean. Industries include sugar mills; salt mills; cider mills; dye mills; flax, hemp and textile mills; paper mills; colour mills; whiting mills; rice mills; ironworks; bridges; canals; hydroelectric power; saw mills; tide mills.

Working drawings/plans rolled up and still in original Air mail packaging of Robertson’s Mill, Colonial Williamsburg. There are 51 drawings that are mentioned on sheet LP of the 1st roll of which only 41 are in the collection, the following are missing:
• 102
• 228
• 229
• E1
• E2
• E3
• E4
• E5
• E6
• E7

There are 3 copies of drawings in the 1st roll that appear in the second roll, these are drawings 1, 110, and 201, and these are highlighted in the lists below.

There are two drawings in the 2nd roll that appear to belong to other collections; S1 is dated August 15th 1956 which differs from the other drawings and S2 is dated October 17th 1977, which is 21 years after the rest. Again these are highlighted in the bellow lists.

The following is the summary of each drawing contained in the two rolls:

1st Roll:
• LP – Layout Plan, List of Drawings – March 1st 1956
• L1 – Landscape Layout and Details – March 1st 1956
• 1 - Elevations – March 1st 1956
• 101 – Foundations, Cross Trees, QTR. Bars, Great Post and Exterior Stairs – March 1st 1956
• 103 – Roof Framing, Windshaft Sprattle Beam Details – March 1st 1956
• 104 – Cross Section of Buck – March 1st 1956
• 105 – Buck Elevations – March 1st 1956
• 106 – Brake Band and Brake Lever – March 1st 1956
• 107 – Elevations of Door and Hatches and Hardware Schedule – March 1st 1956
• 108 – Interior Ladder – March 1st 1956
• 109 – Stone Casing – March 1st 1956
• 110 – Grain Hopper and Shoe – March 1st 1956
• 111 – Sifting Machine and Bray Lever System – March 1st 1956
• 226 – Poll and Sail Details – March 1st 1956
• 227 – Poll and Sail Details – March 1st 1956
• 112 – Poll and Sails – March 1st 1956
• 201 – Great Post – March 1st 1956
• 202 – Great Post Strap and Chocks – March 1st 1956
• 203 – Great Post Pintle, QTR Bar Straps and Bridge Tree Pivot Block Brace – March 1st 1956
• 204 - Bridge Tree Pivot Block Brace and Straps, Exterior Stair Hinge – March 1st 1956
• 205 – Great Post Pintle – March 1st 1956
• 206 – Exterior Stair and Railing Details – March 1st 1956
• 207 – Tail Wheel, Tiller, Tiller Pivot Strap – March 1st 1956
• 208 – Tail Wheel and Tail Pole Details – March 1st 1956
• 209 – Cornice, Corner Board and Rakeboard – March 1st 1956
• 210 – Bracket Details – March 1st 1956
• 211 – Neck Bearing – March 1st 1956
• 212 – Tail Beam Bearing and Windshaft Gudgeon – March 1st 1956
• 213 – Brake Wheel – March 1st 1956
• 214 – Brake Wheel Details, Windshaft and Sprattle Beam – March 1st 1956
• 215 – Brake Wheel Details, Wallower and Sprattle Beam – March 1st 1956
• 216 – Quart, Stone Spindle and Bridge Tree Bearing – March 1st 1956
• 217 – Wallower Details – March 1st 1956
• 218 – Stone Details, Rynd and Bed Stone Bearing – March 1st 1956
• 219 – Brake Band and Brake Lever Details – March 1st 1956
• 220 – Brake Lever Pivot Block and Bolt Schedule – March 1st 1956
• 221 – Bridge Tree, Bray and Bray Lighter Shaft Details – March 1st 1956
• 222 – Sifter and Sifting Machine Details – March 1st 1956
• 223 – Grain Hopper and Shoe Details – March 1st 1956
• 224 – Door D-101, Hatches H-101, H-102, H-103, H-201, H-202, H-203 Details – March 1st 1956
• 225 – Trap Doors TD-101 and TD-201, Hatches H-103, H-202, H-203 Details – March 1st 1956

2nd Roll:
• S2 – Steel Rigging to Lift Buck off Great Post – October 17th 1977
• 201 – Great Post – March 1st 1956 (A copy from the 1st roll.)
• 110 – Grain Hopper and Shoe – March 1st 1956 (A copy from the 1st roll.)
• S1 – Hurricane Bracing – August 15th 1956
• 1 - Elevations – March 1st 1956 (A copy from the 1st roll.)

Photographs, newspaper cuttings, correspondence, articles, floursacks, photocopied articles on the excavation of the original windmill at Flowerdew Hundred Plantation, and the replica built by Jon Sass.

Correspondence, notes, leaflets, booklets, photographs, and photocopied articles on Nags Head windmill, North Carolina.

Three rolls of plans containing:
Roll 1 - 1 plan of the lantern pinion stone nut, Outer Banks Post Mill, by Jon Sass.
Roll 2 - 1 plan entitled "General Arrangement of Post Windmill At Nags Head" by Jon Sass.
Roll 3 - 1 cut-away print of "Third Old Hookmill, East Hampton, Long Island, New York"; The following plans were drawn for the Long Island Wind and Tide Mill Survey by different draftsmen: 6 plans of the Windmill at Water Mill; 6 plans of Hook Mill, East Hampton; 6 plans of Beebe Windmill, Bridgehampton; 8 plans of Van Wyck-Lefferts Tide Mill, Lloyd Harbor.

Notes, lecture notes, record of visit to Lee's Pond Mill, Virginia, article on Swift Creek Mill, Virginia.

Notes, correspondence, photographs and photocopies of articles, publications relating to Canadian windmills including: "A History of Windmills and their place in Canadian life"; copies of letter to Rex Wailes from Edmonton Parks relating to Fort Edmonton windmill; photocopy of "The Toronto Star, June 14 1975 titled "Distillery replaced windmill"; copy of volume 3, no. 3 1976 of "Windmill Whispers", newsletter of the Windmill Study Unit o the American Topical Association; photocopy of "The Mills of Old Quebec"; photocopy of "The Windsor Border Region" by Ernest Lajeunese (1960); envelope containing the Mennonite Village Museum guidebook, a letter to Jon Sass declining his application for a windmill trainee at the museum, magazine produced by the museum about the Steinbach windmill; photocopied list of 14 photographs of French-Canadian windmills; photographs of Steinbach windmill and a tower mill at Ile aux Coudres, Quebec.

Bibliography of publications on waterpower; "1001 References for the History of American Food Technology" by Agricultural History Center, University of California (September 1978); "A List of References for the History of Agricultural Technology" by Agricultural History Center, University of California (September 1979).

Photocopies of technical drawings relating to: millstones, and cocoa melangeurs for Hershey Co.

Notes, photocopies of articles, photographs and correspondence relating to different types of grinding stones in Paul Flory's collection.

Notes, correspondence, photographs, articles, and photocopied articles on sugar mills in the West Indies (Caribbean).

File contains a brochure on Old Sturbridge Village, Massachusetts which has four mills on the site - saw, grist, carding, and cider.

Material relating to watermills in Virginia. The file contains photocopies of articles and historic documents; ephemera; a copy of a thesis by Frances Lillian Jones entitled "Beverley (Chapman's) Mill, Thoroughfare Gap, Virginia: A History and Preservation Plan" (1981); folder containing leaflets, correspondence and newspaper cuttings on: Colvin Run Mill, Burwell-Morgan Mill, George Washington's Grist Mill, Mabry Mill; copy of Derek Ogden's 1979 preliminary site inspection of Mercer Mill, Aldie; article on "The Shenandoah Valley Research Station since 1737".

Envelope contains two postcards of Cedarburg Windmill, and Davidson's Mill, Superior, Wisconsin.

"(Dressing millstones with Charlie Howell Jan 1982)".
Envelope contains several photographs of millstone dressing at Wades Mill, Raphine, Virginia.

Visitor's leaflet for Mascot Roller Mills, Ronks, Pennsylvania.

Single letter loose in the box from Jon Sass to Mr. S. Grossman, Middletown Historical Society regarding Boyd's Windmill, Portsmouth, Rhode Island.

Visitor's leaflet for Bonneyville Mill Country Park.

Greetings card of the American Precision Museum, Vermont.