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Pantheon Books., 1980. Trade paperback. Very good. Signed by previous owner. Age-toning.. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 394 p. Glossary. Audience: General/trade. Manchester, New Hampshire, industrial textile mill oral history recounted by numerous individual interviews over four years, many with immigrants, from workers to management. Herein are layers upon layers of manufacturing history in turn-of-the-century America during the industrial revolution. Over 70 photos help tell the stories, from classic Lewis Hines documentation to more modern B&W portraits of the interviewees. Tamara Hareven is a leading family history scholar and professor. Randolph Langenbach is a designer, architectural historian, and photographer.
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Amoskeag: Life and Work in an American Factory-City (Pantheon Village Series)
by Hareven, Tamara, and Langenbach, Randolph
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Hinds & Coon Mill Supplies & Belting, Boston: A Short History
by Martin, Kenneth R
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[Boston].: History Associates Incorporated., N.D.. No Date.. Trade paperback. Very good. Fine and clean inside. Price label residue top right front.. 1 33 p. Trade paperback; facsimile company logo or letterhead, B&W archival graphic. Paste on full cover over front cover. 25 cm. Off whitest pages, brown text ink. Sepia photos, facsimile. New England mill industry support business formed in the 1890s by Fred Hinds and Floyd Coon. This overview report is compiled and written by historian and former college professor Kenneth R Martin, a specialist in business and maritime history working with History Associates Inc. The end point of the history is unclear as there is no copyright or print date. The last event date mentioned is 1980. The ups and downs of the New England fabric mill industry very much reflected the economy of the 20th century.
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How to Know Textiles; Enlarged Edition
by Small, Cassie Paine
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Boston: New York.: Ginn and Company / The Atheneum Press., 1932. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Spine titles rubbed, readable. School text discard, Lancaster N.H. Minor spine wobbles. Spine tilt.. 1 Green cloth over boards. Black titles, front graphic. xxi, [1], 394 p. 19 cm. B&W photos. Contents: Suggestions to teachers; Variety Fabrics; Weaves and Process; Knitting and Process; Lace, Lacemaking; Yarns, Spinning; History, Cloth Making; Cloth Finishing, Bleaching, Dyeing; Cloth Printing; Mercerizing, Finishing; 4 Principal Raw Materials, Fibers; Cotton Field to Fabric; Flax into Linen; Woolens and Worsted; Silk; Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, Manufactured Fibers; Rayon Industry; Use of Cloth parallel to stage of civilization. Glossaries: materials, terms. References. Index.
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Lyddie
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New York.: Puffin Books., 1995. Later printing.. Trade paperback. New. Slight shelf wear. Unread.. Ginsburg, Max (Cover art by).. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 182 p. Audience: Children/juvenile. Youth historical fiction set in rural Vermont and in Lowell, Massachusetts, early 20th century. Lyddie Worthen is on her own, her parents are gone and her brother and sisters have gone to live with others. Lyddie heads to Lowell and to the mills, looking for work. Hours are long, conditions are unhealthy working the looms. Lyddie learns to read and to handle the overseer. In time, will Lyddie speak out for better working conditions, or will she stay quiet? The early textile mills of the Industrial Age are a history to be shared and understood.
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The Mill
by Murphy Jr, James F
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New York.: Avon., 1981. 1st Avon printing.. Mass-market paperback. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Spine creasing, fading. Front cover lower corner crease. Right edge light foxing. Tight volume.. 1 Mass-market (rack) paperback. 312 p. Pictorial cover. Historical fiction; romance among Irish immigrants; and the gentry who owned their labor in Massachusetts textile mills, early 1800s. Mary Roark, beautiful, had left her troubles and sorrow in Ireland to find mill work in America. Brendan McMahon had killed for freedom in Ireland, and now had a price on his head; he came to America looking for Mary.
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Mother Jones and the March of the Mill Children
by Colman, Penny
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Brookfield CT.: Millbrook Press., 1994. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Former classroom book, light wear.. 1 Library binding. Glossy textured illustrated paper over boards. 48 p. Horizontal format, 10.5x8.75in. B&W photos, facsimiles. Audience: Children/juvenile. U.S. Millworker History / Social Reform / Child Laborers / Industrial Revolution. Mother Jones, Mary Harris Jones (1843? -1930) was a social reformer, active in the labor union movement who fought for the rights of workers. She was a self-proclaimed "hell-raiser".
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Newport, New Hampshire, The Sunshine Town: Building on Strong Foundations
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Newport NH.: Newport Area Chamber of Commerce w/ Hedgehog Publishing., 1998. Local community profile.. Wraps. New. Production wrinkles on occasional pages.. Wells, Lucy (Cover photo by), and Richer, Clifford P, surveyor map by, and Other Contributing Photographers.. 1 40 p. Color photo illustrated card stock cover: from hot-air balloon. Stapled binding. Color photos. Color and B&W Advertising. Town business organization updated publication with reports: local history, services, 80th Winter Carnival, Public Schools, Culture and Community, Recreation, Maps and Street Index, Places of Worship, Community Care Services, Historical Society, "Re-vite" account by writer Evan Hill, Chamber Information, more. A colonial settlement, County Seat for Sullivan County, Newport NH grew as a mill factory center early in the 20th century, and maintains a population of about 6000 with continued metal-working manufacturing, numerous small businesses, and a vibrant series of volunteer and professional,…
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Parsons Mill
by Lewontin, Timothy
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University Press of New England, 1989. First edition.. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket.. 0 Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 192 p. Audience: General/trade. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. A new college degree isn"t much use in the face of a recession, so Lewontin answered a want add "Sawyer to train. " And train he did, in a lumber mill in New England! His characterizations of his fellow laborers are drawn with a sensitivity and vividness reminiscent of John Steinbeck, while the dominant figure of shrewd, contradictory, and mean-spirited Parsons slowly emerges as a Yankee natural to the darker side of Robert Frost. A beautifully crafted account of his workplace that will draw you in with a magnetism usually encountered only in fiction.
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Parsons' Mill
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Hanover NH / London.: University Press of New England., 1989. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket.. Sharrer, Honore (Jacket cover 1951 painting: "Tribute to the American Working People", by).. 1 Black textured paper over boards. Cover spine titles; front circular mill wood saw. 184 p. Audience: General/trade. Non-fiction literary journalism account of a northern New England saw mill business where the author became an employee, a sawyer in training, and found, "a world occupied by gruff millhands toiling in a kind of 19th century time warp". A new college degree isn"t much use in the face of a recession, so Lewontin answered a want add "Sawyer to train. " And train he did, in a lumber mill in New England! His characterizations of his fellow laborers are drawn with a sensitivity and vividness reminiscent of John Steinbeck, while the dominant figure of shrewd, contradictory, and mean-spirited Parsons slowly emerges as a Yankee natural…
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Textile Printing Machinery: The Machine and its Drive, Catalogue No. 221, A Treatise
by Department, The Engineering (Rice, Barton & Fales Machine and Iron Company)
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Worcester MA / New York.: P.H. McGiehan / Commonwealth Pres, Printers.. Early 20th century; No Date.. Wraps. Very good. Minor wear.. 1 36 p. Brown textured card stock covers, stapled. Black titles in light frame. 23 cm. Diagrams and B&W machinery detailed photos. Reprint from "The Textile World". An industrial sales catalogue for operating textile mills. Excellent imagery.
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Unravelling, a novel
by Graver, Elizabeth
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New York.: Hyperion Books., 1997. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket.. 1 Tan cloth and lighter paper over boards. 288 p. Audience: General/trade. A great novel defining life in the New England textile mills in the latter part of the 19th century. The character narrating is a headstrong, independent young woman. Her unconventional choices isolate her from her community, friends, family. At 15, she has left her family's New Hampshire farm to go to a factory job in Lowell, Massachusetts, the City of Spindles.
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Weavers and Other Workers
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Chicago / New York / San Francisco.: Rand, McNally & Company., 1930. 1917 author copyright.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Ink stamp inside: "T R Plympton School, Waltham, Mass." Corner, spine end minor wear. Back top corner dark stain.. 1 Light green cloth over boards decorated w/ stamped Middle East rug pattern, orange titles. 170 p. 20 cm. Grayscale photos and artwork. Anthology of textile stories, poetry, essays, photos, drawings, geared toward school children. Author-editor Jennie Hall was a 2nd grade teacher at The Francis W. Parker School in Chicago, and found their interest in textiles to be keen. Front and back end papers are green-tinted photos: Field of Sheep (front) and Camel Caravan (back). Frontispiece is a Persian Prayer Rug photo. Contributors: Bjornstjerne Bjornson; Jean Ingelow; Ann Taylor; William Blake; Edith M Thomas; Christina G Rossetti; Christopher Marlowe; S T Coleridge. Themes: Farmyard; Goats; Shepherds; Sheep; Bedouins; Giotto; Spinning; Navajo; Persian;…
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The Woman Who Toils: Being the Experiences of Two Ladies as Factory Girls
by Van Vorst, Mrs. John (Bessie), And Van Vorst, Marie
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Doubleday, Page & Company., 1903. Dates match.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Wear to covers, small portion top-edge gilt deteriorated. Front board beginning to separate inside.. 1 303 p. Grayscale photos and artwork. Burgundy cloth covered boards, gold titles. Frontispiece photos of both authors at work. Deckled pages right and bottom. Sociology / Role-playing: Authors worked in factories as research. Factories included: Pittsburg; Perry, NY; Chicago; Lynn, Mass.; Southern Cotton Mills.
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The Young Mill-Wright and Miller's Guide (Facsimile Originally Published 1834)
by Evans, Oliver (Plate illustrations by), and Jones, Thomas P (With additions and corrections to the 8th edition by)
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Ontario.: Algarve (Classic Reprint Series)., 2004. Reprint. 8th edition in 1834.. Trade paperback. New. Light self scuffing, back cover. Unread.. 1 392 p. Includes illustrations. Trade Paperback. 22 cm. Wooden water mill cover photo, color. White titles. 28 descriptive plates. "A Description of an Improved Merchant Flour-Mill with engravings by C. & O. Evans, Engineers". First published in Philadelphia 1834, Griggs & Co., Printers.
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