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articles
Atlantic Monthly
Among Lowell Mill-Girls: A Reminiscence, Larcom, Lucy. Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 48 (November 1881), 20 pages. Posted May 1, 2003. CD (HWDA08). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 2 MB PDF
Craftsman
Notes Gathered from the History of Textiles, ---. Craftsman, Vol. 1 (1902), 22 pages. Posted September 10, 2003. CD (HWDA09). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1.6B PDF
Everybody's Magazine
Cotton-Picking Time in the South, Hobson, Anne. Everybody's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 1 (January 1902), 7 pages. Posted April 12, 2003. CD (HWDA08). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1.2 MB PDF
Woman That Toils, Van Vorst, Marie. Everybody's Magazine, Vol. 7, No. 6 (December 1902), 13 pages. Posted April 15, 2003. CD (HWDA08). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1.9 MB PDF
Melliand
Sketches from the History of the Textile Industry: Jacquard, Keiser, A. J. The Melliand, Vol. 1, No. 2 (May 1929), 5 pages. Posted February 10, 2002. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1.1 MB PDF
Sketches from the History of the Textile Industry: Mercer and Mercerization, Keiser, A. J. The Melliand, Vol. 1, No. 2 (May 1929), 2 pages. Posted February 10, 2002. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 556 KB PDF
History of Textile Industry -- Spun Silk: Transition from a Home-Industry to Mechanical Spinning, Strohl, Ivan A. The Melliand, Vol. 1, No.10 (January 1930), 3 pages. Posted March 5, 2002. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 756 KB PDF
books
---. An Episode and a History: The Centenary of a Woollen Mill -- Marzotto 1836/1936, 1936, 287 pages. Note: Reduced to 95% to fit on standard letter-size paper. Posted January 17, 2002. SAMPLE PAGE. CONTENTS. Part 1: File size 9.1 MB PDF. Part 2: File size 11.4 MB PDF. Part 3: File size 7.8 MB PDF. Part 4: File size 8.3 MB PDF. Part 5: File size 8 MB PDF. Part 6: File size 12.2 MB PDF.
---. Catalogue of the Collections in the Science Museum South Kensington, His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1921, 78 pages. Note: scanned images provided by Stacey Harvey-Brown. Posted April 18, 2007. SAMPLE PAGE. CONTENTS. File size 10.7 MB PDF
---. Reasons humbly offered against the passing of a bill, instituted, A bill for regulating and encouraging the art of weaving., London, 1695, 4 pages. Posted August 1, 2003. CD (HWDA08). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 348 KB PDF
---. The Imperial Macramé Lace Book, Barbour Flax Spinning Company, 1878, 66 pages. Posted March 17, 2007. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 2.4 MB PDF
---. The linnen and woollen manufactory discoursed: with the nature of companies and trade in general: and particularly, that of the company's for the linnen manufactory of England and Ireland. With some reflections how the trade of Ireland hath formerly, and may now affect England. Printed at the request of a peer of this realm., Thomas Mercer, 1698, 54 pages. Posted August 1, 2003. CD (HWDA08). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1.7 MB PDF
---. Western Art, Handbook of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1910, 27 pages. Posted July 11, 2010. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 2.8 MB PDF
Ashton, Leigh. Samplers Selected and Described with an Introduction by Leigh Ashton, The Mayflower Press, Plymouth, 1926, 103 pages. Posted May 2, 2007. SAMPLE PAGE. CONTENTS. REVIEW. Part 1: File size 784 KB PDF. Part 2: File size 2.9 MB PDF. Part 3: File size 12.9 MB PDF. Part 4: File size 12.4 MB PDF. Part 5: File size 13.6 MB PDF. Part 6: File size 13.2 MB PDF. Part 7: File size 12.4 MB PDF.
Bolton, Ethel Stanwood and Coe, Eva Johnston. American Samplers, The Massachusetts Society of the Colonial Dames of America, 1921, 553 pages. Posted May 8, 2007. SAMPLE PAGE. CONTENTS. REVIEW. Part 1: File size 13.3 MB PDF. Part 2: File size 11.1 MB PDF. Part 3: File size 11.6 MB PDF. Part 4: File size 11 MB PDF. Part 5: File size 9.9 MB PDF. Part 6: File size 8.7 MB PDF. Part 7: File size 9.7 MB PDF. Part 8: File size 8.7 MB PDF.
Brieuvres, Marguerite de. La Dentelle. Historique de la Dentelle à Travers les Ages et les Pays [ Lace: A History of Lace Across the Ages and Countries], Paris, 171 pages. Posted April 9, 2007. SAMPLE PAGE. CONTENTS. REVIEW. File size 5.1 MB PDF
Brown, Alan. A Rough Lot..., self-published, 2001, 51 pages. Note: posted with written permission from the author. Posted July 29, 2008. SAMPLE PAGE. CONTENTS. File size 9.6 MB PDF
Brown, Alan. Lace and the Emerald Isle, self-published, 2000, 49 pages. Note: posted with written permission from the author. Posted July 29, 2008. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 11.5 MB PDF
Brown, Alan. Take the Children, self-published, 2000, 49 pages. Note: posted with written permission from the author. Posted June 28, 2008. SAMPLE PAGE. CONTENTS. File size 6.3 MB PDF
Despierres, G. Histoire du Point d'Alençon depuis son Origine jusq'uà nos Jours [History of Alençon Lace from its Origin to the Present ], 1886, 287 pages. Posted March 19, 2007. SAMPLE PAGE. Part 1: File size 8.5 MB PDF. Part 2: File size 9.8 MB PDF.
Dolby, Anastasia. Church Embroidery, Chapman and Hall, 1867, 222 pages. Posted June 4, 2007. SAMPLE PAGE. CONTENTS. REVIEW. File size 8.1 MB PDF
Felkin, William. A History of the Machine-Wrought Hosiery and Lace Manufacturers, Burt Franklin, New York, 1967, 608 pages. Posted April 18, 2007. SAMPLE PAGE. REVIEW. Part 1: File size 10.1 MB PDF. Part 2: File size 12.5 MB PDF. Part 3: File size 11.9 MB PDF.
Haines, Richard, 1633-1685. Proposals for Building, in Every County, a Working-almshouse or Hospital as the Best Expedient to Perfect the Trade and Manufactory of Linnen-cloth , W.G. for R. Harford, 1677, 29 pages. Note: 2-up. 15 document pages. Posted June 2, 2003. CD (HWDA11). SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1.4 MB PDF
Merrill, B. E. editor. Lace Lovers of the United States, 1917, 23 pages. Posted July 11, 2010. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 1 MB PDF
Miles, Henry A. Lowell, As It Was, and As It Is, Nathaniel L. Dayton, 1846, 235 pages. Posted June 3, 2003. CD (HWDA06). SAMPLE PAGE. CONTENTS. File size 7.7 MB PDF
Rouveyre, Edouard. La Dentelle : Transformations Progressives XVI et XVII Siècles [ Lace: Progressive Transformations, XVIth and XVIIth Century ], 85 pages. Posted June 9, 2007. SAMPLE PAGE. REVIEW. Part 1: File size 9.1 MB PDF. Part 2: File size 10.6 MB PDF. Part 3: File size 11 MB PDF. Part 4: File size 9.3 MB PDF. Part 5: File size 9.6 MB PDF. Part 6: File size 10 MB PDF.
Seguin, Joseph. La Dentelle. Histoire, Description, Fabrication, Bibliographie. [ Lace - its History, Description, Fabrication; Bibliography ], 278 pages. Posted May 5, 2007. SAMPLE PAGE. CONTENTS. REVIEW. Part 1: File size 8 MB PDF. Part 2: File size 9.9 MB PDF. Part 3: File size 7.7 MB PDF. Part 4: File size 9 MB PDF. Part 5: File size 8.2 MB PDF. Part 6: File size 7.8 MB PDF. Part 7: File size 9.2 MB PDF. Part 8: File size 8.2 MB PDF. Part 9: File size 9.9 MB PDF. Part 10: File size 10.3 MB PDF. Part 11: File size 11.4 MB PDF. Part 12: File size 10.7 MB PDF.
Ure, Andres. The Cotton Manufacture of Great Britain, Vol. 1, Charles Knight, 1886, 461 pages. Posted June 22, 2003. CD (HWDA08). SAMPLE PAGE. CONTENTS. Part 1: File size 8.5 MB PDF. Part 2: File size 8.9 MB PDF. Part 3: File size 8.2 MB PDF.
Ure, Andres. The Cotton Manufacture of Great Britain, Vol. 2, Charles Knight, 1886, 465 pages. Posted August 17, 2003. CD (HWDA08). SAMPLE PAGE. CONTENTS. Part 1: File size 7.9 MB PDF. Part 2: File size 8.4 MB PDF. Part 3: File size 8.1 MB PDF.
Verhaegen, Pierre. La Dentelle Belge [ Belgian Lace ], 1912, 353 pages. Posted June 19, 2007. SAMPLE PAGE. REVIEW. Part 1: File size 9.7 MB PDF. Part 2: File size 8.1 MB PDF. Part 3: File size 9.4 MB PDF. Part 4: File size 9.6 MB PDF. Part 5: File size 12.4 MB PDF. Part 6: File size 6.2 MB PDF. Part 7: File size 8.6 MB PDF. Part 8: File size 9.1 MB PDF.
Walton, Perry. The Story of Textiles, Tudor Publishing Co., New York, 1925, 323 pages. Posted June 4, 2007. SAMPLE PAGE. CONTENTS. REVIEW. Part 1: File size 11.4 MB PDF. Part 2: File size 12.2 MB PDF. Part 3: File size 13.4 MB PDF.
Wheeler, Candace. The Development of Embroidery in America, Harper and Brothers, 1921, 195 pages. Posted May 1, 2007. SAMPLE PAGE. CONTENTS. REVIEW. Part 1: File size 9.1 MB PDF. Part 2: File size 9.6 MB PDF.
ephemera
Social and political history
Peterson, J. S. An essay on the practicability and profitableness of manufacturing the cotton crop of the South within our own limits, 1 page. Note: From Library of Congress. Reduced to 65% to fit on page. Posted October 28, 2002. File size 112 KB PDF
Unknown. Cotton vs. currency. Ought the cotton trade to be opened?, 1864, 1 page. Note: From Library of Congress. Posted November 18, 2002. File size 96 KB PDF
"Baling Cotton", C. Cullen, Every Saturday. Illustration, 871, 1 page. Posted February 16, 2003. File size 20 KB PDF
Miscellaneous
Child Laborers at Fulton Bag & Cotton Mills, Atlanta, Georgia. , 1 page. Posted February 16, 2003. File size 20 KB PDF
Evicted Workers from Strike at Fulton Bag & Cotton Mills, Atlanta, Georgia. , 1 page. Posted February 16, 2003. File size 24 KB PDF
Cotton Picking. Picture postcards and photographs, 15 pages. Note: Last updated August 1, 2003. Posted August 1, 2003. File size 1.2 MB PDF
Social and political history
G. B. S. Alliance of British cotton spinners and slave-holding cotton lords to build up "Free trade." Detroit, Mich., January 1871, 4 pages. Note: From Library of Congress. Posted November 18, 2002. File size 220 KB PDF
Yates, O. K. Lines on the Great Calamity at Lawrence and the Fall of the Pemberton Mills, Jan. 10, 1860, 1860, 1 page. Note: From Library of Congress. Reduced to 95% to fit on page. Posted October 28, 2002. File size 116 KB PDF
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. Competition of India and the silver question, February 5, 1886, 2 pages. Note: From Library of Congress. Posted October 28, 2002. File size 72 KB PDF
Textile-related businesses
Weekly Messenger. The society called Shakers, in Logan County, Ky. continue their fulling mill in operation ..., 1815, 2 pages. Note: From Library of Congress. Posted October 28, 2002. File size 176 KB PDF
Social and political history
Barrett, John et al. Home industry, the most direct road to national prosperity. Proposals for carrying on a manufacture in the town of Boston, for employing the poor of said town., 1768, 1 page. Note: From Library of Congress. Posted October 28, 2002. File size 120 KB PDF
Textile-related businesses
Unknown. Statistics of Lowell manufactures, January 1, 1835. Compiled from authentic sources., January 1, 1835, 1 page. Note: Landscape mode. Reduced to 80% to fit on page. Posted October 28, 2002. File size 60 KB PDF
Taylor, Joel at the office of the Lowell daily courier. Statistics of Lowell manufactures, January MDCCCXLVI compiled from authentic sources. Lowell, Mass., 1846, 1 page. Note: From Library of Congress. Posted October 28, 2002. File size 116 KB PDF
Social and political history
Barrett, John et al. Proposals for carrying on a manufacture in the town of Boston, for employing the poor of said town., March 13, 1768, 2 pages. Note: From Library of Congress. Posted October 28, 2002. File size 168 KB PDF
Textile-related businesses
Unknown. Statistics of Lowell manufacturers. Compiled from authentic sources., January 1857, 1 page. Note: From Library of Congress. Posted October 28, 2002. File size 120 KB PDF
Social and political history
Unknown. Forty Dollars Reward, October 5, 1777, 1 page. Note: From Library of Congress. Posted November 18, 2002. File size 64 KB PDF
Unknown. Relief for Starving Thousands, December 1862, 3 pages. Note: From Library of Congress. Posted November 18, 2002. File size 128 KB PDF
New York Sun. A short talk to New York workingmen, May 27, 1888, 1 page. Note: From Library of Congress. Posted November 18, 2002. File size 44 KB PDF
Unknown. To Workingmen: facts, 1880, 2 pages. Note: From Library of Congress. Posted November 18, 2002. File size 72 KB PDF
Cook, F. and A. Levy. New-Orleans price-current and commercial intelligencer. Wholesale prices, February 6, 1841, 3 pages. Note: From Library of Congress Reduced to 95% to fit on page. Posted November 18, 2002. File size 328 KB PDF
Hamilton. Some notices of Kentucky, particularly of its chief town, Lexington, August 23, 1828, 2 pages. Note: From Library of Congress. Posted November 18, 2002. File size 208 KB PDF
Rowe & Hooper. National utility, in opposition to political controversy : addressed to the friends of American manufactures, 1816, 1 page. Note: From Library of Congress. Posted November 18, 2002. File size 144 KB PDF
Unknown. Circular at a meeting of the Pennsylvania Society for the promotion of manufactures and the mechanic arts, May 15, 1832, 3 pages. Note: From Library of Congress. Posted November 18, 2002. File size 84 KB PDF
Carpenter, Josiah. Farmers, dairymen & country merchants' guide or prices current of produce in New York. for the week ending, April 4, 1863, 1 page. Note: From Library of Congress. Posted November 18, 2002. File size 84 KB PDF
Communist Party, U. S. A. Silk workers & dye workers of Paterson. The communist party hails the general strike of the silk dye workers and broad silk workers forward to victory in your fight against the bosses slavery codes of the NRA, 1933, 1 page. Note: From Library of Congress. Posted November 18, 2002. File size 136 KB PDF
Haywood, William. With drops of blood. The history of the Industrial workers of the world has been written, 1919, 4 pages. Note: From Library of Congress. Posted November 18, 2002. File size 396 KB PDF
Filene, Catherine. Careers for women, 1920, 1 page. Note: From Library of Congress. Posted November 18, 2002. File size 124 KB PDF
Connecticut State Troopers guarding gate during strike at American Thread, Willimantic, Connecticut. , 1925, 1 page. Posted February 16, 2003. File size 40 KB PDF
Lowell Girls. Picture, 1 page. Posted February 16, 2003. File size 40 KB PDF
Publications
"Lowell Offering", Lowell Textile Mills. Cover of magazine produced by women employed by the Lowell Textile Mills, 1845, 1 page. Posted November 18, 2002. File size 56 KB PDF
Miscellaneous
Lowell Mills Boarding House. Photograph, 1 page. Posted February 16, 2003. File size 28 KB PDF
Textile mills and plants
Georgia Textile Mills. Picture postcards, 1 page. Posted January 25, 2004. File size 112 KB PDF
Columbus, Georgia. Picture postcards, 1 page. Posted June 20, 2003. File size 452 KB PDF
Miscellaneous
Child Spinner. Picture postcard, 1 page. Posted February 16, 2003. File size 28 KB PDF
monographs
Gardner, Lawrence W. Recollections of an Early Mill Town: Toddsville, 1974, 62 pages. Posted June 12, 2003. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 4.7 MB PDF
other
Fashion Dolls
Parrish, Tess. The 18th Century Fashion Doll, 2001, 55 pages. Posted May 17, 2007. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 4.1 MB PDF
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