All posts tagged "textile mills"
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10.5K7Arts and LeisureThe 40 Angels of St. Ann, the Sistine Chapel of Woonsocket
St. Ann Roman Catholic Church in Woonsocket, R.I., was built from nickels and dimes donated by poor French-Canadian millworkers and their families...
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5.8K6MassachusettsBetsey Guppy Chamberlain Promotes the Radical Notion That Indians Are People
Betsey Guppy Chamberlain, a half-Algonquian mill girl, published some of the first – if not the first — criticisms of the way...
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4.1K2Business and LaborFlashback Photos: Farm Auction in Derby, Conn., 1940
These photos of a farm auction in Derby, Conn., were taken in September 1940 by Jack Delano. Delano worked for the Farm...
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6.6K4Arts and LeisureLeonard Bernstein Defies Dad, Refuses To Sell Hair Products
Leonard Bernstein became one of the most successful musicians in American history, conducting the New York Philharmonic for years and composing works...
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15.0K10MassachusettsSarah Bagley Avenges the New England Mill Girls
A powerful Massachusetts politician in 1845 learned the hard way not to mess with the mill girls – and especially not with...
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6.5K4Arts and LeisureThe Beautiful Freak Reliance Defends the America’s Cup in 1903
The beautiful behemoth Reliance handily defended the America’s Cup in 1903, but her freakishly large size caused the contest’s rules on design...
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29.9K38Business and LaborFall River’s Famous Chow Mein Sandwich
When 17-year-old Barbara Wong arrived in Fall River, Mass., after World War II, she could hardly have known she would become the...
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14.2K14Business and LaborThe Middlesex Canal, New England’s Incredible Ditch
The Middlesex Canal, now largely forgotten, was a 27-mile waterway that drove the industrialization of the Merrimack Valley for 50 years starting...
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18.0K30MassachusettsHarriet Hanson Robinson, Lowell Mill Girl
Harriet Hanson Robinson went to work as a Lowell mill girl when she was 10 years old to help support her family....
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52.0K24Business and LaborChild Labor Exposed: The Legacy of Photographer Lewis Hine
A camera made an improbable weapon against the growing evil of child labor in the early 20th century. Then, children as young...
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