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James Boyd: Patent Sponge Boots, for Horses Feet (1825).

John McElroy & Son. Manufacturers of light and heavy farm wagons! Wish to Call the Attention of Farmers to the Superior Farm Wagons, Known as the McElroy Wagon (exact date unknown).

Hickok's Patent Cider Mill (1852).

Valuable invention! Dana's Premium Cultivator (1855).

Valuable invention! Highly important to farmers! C. H. Dana's Premium Hand Corn Planter (1855).

Nat Turner: FROM The Confessions of Nat Turner [Title Page] (1832).

Boardinghouse regulations (from Lowell: The Story of an Industrial City)

Noon Hour at the Vivian Cotton Mills. Shows The Character of the 'Hands' in a Better Class Mill, Well Ventilated and Lighted. Cherryville, N.C. (1908)

Spinners and doffers in Lancaster Cotton Mills. Dozens of Them in this Mill. Lancaster, S.C. (1908)

Power Loom Weaving

Woman at the Loom

Fifth Floor View, Looking North West, Mills #1 and 2

New England Factory Life - Bell Time (Winslow Homer, from Harper's Weekly, July 25, 1868)

The Morning Bell (Winslow Homer, from Harper's Weekly, December 13, 1873)

General View of Boardinghouse, From South [1] (ca. 1933)

General View of Boardinghouses, From South [2] (ca. 1933)

Southeast Elevations, Closer (ca. 1933)

Detail Showing Connector Mills #1 and #2 Looking Northeast (1982)

Statement of the mill powers and shares in the proprietors of locks and canals, to which the several manufacturing companies at Lowell, are entitled ... (Poster dated December 17th, 1853

Statistics of Lowell manufactures (Poster dated January 1, 1835)

Statistics of Lowell manufactures, January MDCCCXLVI (ca. 1846)

Statistics of Lowell manufacturers. January 1857 (ca. 1857)

Boott Cotton Mills, John St. at Merrimack River, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA (ca. 1896)

Henry Rhoads, Sheep Shearer (ca. 1920-1940)

Dorothea Lange, Cotton pickers at work in the southern San Joaquin Valley, California. They receive one dollar and twenty-five cents per hundred pounds. cotton pickers at work.jpg(November 1936)

Dorothea Lange, Cotton picker. Southern San Joaquin Valley (November 1936)

King Cotton (1907)

Dorothea Lange, Cotton bales in gin yard outside Bakersfield, California. Cotton has been produced commercially in California since 190In 1936 California produced 3.3% of the cotton in United States. (May 1936)

Russell Lee, Workman feeding raw wool into machine which removes loose dust and dirt and burs. Wool scouring plant, San Marcos, Texas. (March 1940)

Russell Lee, Partly scoured wool coming over the squeezing rolls after the first bath. These rolls after the first bath. These rolls squeeze out most of the first solution along with grease and dirt. Wool then goes into next bath. Wool scouring plant, San Marcos, Texas. (March 1940)

Russell Lee, Operator removing bat of cotton from machine. First step of cleaning cotton of trash. Laurel cotton mills, Laurel, Mississippi. (January 1939)

Tulalip women carding and spinning wool on porch, Tulalup Indian Reservation, Washington (1898)

Manchester, New Hampshire - Textiles. Pacific Mills. (April 1937)

Manchester, New Hampshire - Textiles. Pacific Mills. (April 1937)

High Point, North Carolina - Textiles. Pickett Yarn Mill. Spinning - Saco-Lowell machine - showing hands of woman in operation - highly skilled. (January 1937)

Interior of Magnolia Cotton Mills spinning room. See the little ones scattered through the mill. All work. Magnolia, Miss. (May 3, 1911)

Mule - spinning room in Chace Cotton Mill. Raoul Julien a 'back-roping boy.' Has been here 2 years. Burlington, VT. (May 7, 1909)

Hattie Hunter, spinner in the Lancaster Cotton Mills. 52 inches high. Worked in mill for three years. Gets 50 [cents] a day. Lancaster, S.C. (December 1, 1908)

Russell Lee, Operator repairing break in thread in warp winding. Laurel cotton mills, Laurel, Mississippi. (January 1939)

Manchester, New Hampshire - Textiles. Pacific Mills. Barber-Colman High Speed Warper. This machine is using 345 'ends' which are run into the warp. This number can be regulated according to the warp desired. (April 1937)

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Threading broken warp thread through the eyes of drop wires, preparatory to tying the broken ends. Drop wires are part of the stop motion system. A drop wire is placed on each thread of the rayon warp shown here. When a thread breaks, the wire drops, making a contact and stopping the machine. (March 18, 1937)

Edwin Locke, Arthurdale homesteader weaving in the cooperative looms of Reedsville, West Virginia. (February 1937)

Lincoln Cotton Mills, Evansville, Ind. Girls at weaving machines; warpers. Evansville, Ind. (October 1908)

Russell Lee, Weaving room, Laurel cotton mill. Laurel, Mississippi. (January 1939)

Panoramic view of the city of Lowell, Massachusetts, from the northeast side (1874)

Benjamin Mather, Lowell in 1825 (1825)

James Kidder, View of the town of Lowell Mass (1830)

Benjamin Mather, Plan of the Town of Lowell and Belvidere Village (1832)

Lowell (1834)

J.W. Barber, East View of Lowell Mass (1839)

David Claypool Johnson, Merrimack Prints, Lowell Mass (1850)

Franklin Hedge, Lowell Letter Paper (1850)

Mill #5, West, View of Tailrace, Turbine #2 (ca. 1968)

Powerhouse, Detail Showing Turbine, First Floor, Looking Northeast (ca. 1968)

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