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ISBN:
Category : Local history
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Contributions of the Lowell Historical Society
Author: Contributions of the Lowell Historical Society
Author: Lowell Historical Society, Lowell, MassPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lowell (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Contributions of the Lowell Historical Society
Author: Contributions of the Lowell Historical Society
Author: Lowell Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lowell (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Lowell
Author: Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738539324
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Lowell, a historic industrial city, owes its life to the broad Merrimack River. Renowned for its water-powered textile mills, it was also a city rich in natural beauty, where spiritual and cultural values took root. Postcards from the 1890s to the 1940s bear witness to riverscapes, varied waterways, arched bridges, and green parks. Vintage cards depict grand churches and stately mansions, some now altered or gone, and rare interior views. Informative text accompanies the images of yellowbricked colleges, pastoral neighboring environs, dignified cemeteries, and imposing monuments, such as the captivating Lion Monument.
Memories of the Indians and Pioneers of the Region of Lowell
Author: Charles CowleyPublisher:
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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Mill Girls and Strangers
Author: Wendy M. GordonPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791487822
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
In the nineteenth-century mill towns of Preston, England; Lowell, Massachusetts; and Paisley, Scotland, there were specific demands for migrant and female labor, and potential employers provided the necessary respectable conditions in order to attract them. Using individual accounts, this innovative and comparative study examines the migrants' lives by addressing their reasons for migration, their relationship to their families, the roles they played in the cities to which they moved, and the dangers they met as a result of their youth, gender, and separation from family. Gordon details both the similarities and differences in the women's migration experiences, and somewhat surprisingly concludes that they became financially independent, rather than primarily contributors to a family economy.
A History of American Working-Class Literature
Author: Nicholas ColesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108509029
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
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Book Description
A History of American Working-Class Literature sheds light not only on the lived experience of class but the enormously varied creativity of working-class people throughout the history of what is now the United States. By charting a chronology of working-class experience, as the conditions of work have changed over time, this volume shows how the practice of organizing, economic competition, place, and time shape opportunity and desire. The subjects range from transportation narratives and slave songs to the literature of deindustrialization and globalization. Among the literary forms discussed are memoir, journalism, film, drama, poetry, speeches, fiction, and song. Essays focus on plantation, prison, factory, and farm, as well as on labor unions, workers' theaters, and innovative publishing ventures. Chapters spotlight the intersections of class with race, gender, and place. The variety, depth, and many provocations of this History are certain to enrich the study and teaching of American literature.
Percival Lowell
Author: David StraussPublisher:
ISBN: 9780674002913
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Elder brother of Harvard President Lawrence and poet Amy, Percival Lowell is best known as the astronomer who claimed intelligent beings had built canals on Mars. But the Lowell who emerges here was a polymath: not just a self-taught astronomer, but a shrewd investor, skilled photographer, inspired public speaker, and adventure-travel writer.
Loom and Spindle
Author: Harriet Jane Hanson RobinsonPublisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429045248
Category : Factory system
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Author Harriet Robinson (1825-1911), born Harriet Jane Hanson in Boston, offers a first person account of her life as a factory girl in Lowell, Massachusetts in this 1898 work. Robinson moved with her widowed mother and three siblings to Lowell as the cotton industry was booming, and began working as a bobbin duffer at the age of ten for $2 a week. Her reflections of the life, some 60 years later, are unfailingly upbeat. She was educated, in public school, by private lesson, and in church. The community was tightly knit. She also had the opportunity to write poetry and prose for the factory girls' literary magazine The Lowell Offering. When mill girls returned to their rural family homes, she says, "...instead of being looked down upon as 'factory girls, ' they were more often welcomed as coming from the metropolis, bringing new fashions, new books, and new ideas with them."