Title & Author:

The New England mill village, 1790-1860 / edited by Gary Kulik, Roger Parks, Theodore Z. Penn.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1982.

Description:

xxxv, 520 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Series:

Documents in American industrial history ; v. 2

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Overview. The practical tourist (1832) / Zachariah Allen -- Census of manufactures, returns from Rhode Island (1833) / Samuel Slater -- Launching the industry (1931) / Caroline F. Ware -- Introduction of cotton textile technology. Cotton spinning / American Journal -- Correspondence (1789) / Samuel Slater and Moses Brown -- Autobiography (1834) / Samuel Slater -- Letter to George White (1835) / Smith Wilkinson -- Samuel Slater (1835) / Pawtucket Chronicle -- Memoir of Samuel Slater (1836) / George S. White -- Reminiscences (1846) / David Wilkinson -- Oziel Wilkinson account (1789) / Almy & Brown and Moses Brown -- Sylvanus Brown account (1790) / Almy & Brown -- The science of mechanics (1938) / Zachariah Allen -- The Practical tourist (1832) / Zachariah Allen -- Transactions (1861) / Rhode Island Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Industry -- History of cotton manufacture in America (1861) / Zachariah Allen -- Organization of the mill village. Census of manufactures (1810) / Albert Gallatin -- Documents relative to the manufactures of the United States (1833) / Louis McLane -- Mill villages for sale (1821-1835) / Manufacturers' and Farmers' Journal -- Pomfret Manufacturing Company, Pomfret, Connecticut (1893) / William R. Bagnall -- Map (1835) / Pomfret, Connecticut -- Ledger (1811-1812) / Sturbridge Manufacturing Company -- Map (1830) / The Upper Quinebaug -- Land records (1812-1852) / Phoenix Mill -- Map (ca. 1825) / Phoenixville, Connecticut -- Records (1824-1825) / Ware Manufacturing Company -- Map (1825) / Ware Factory village -- Ware Factory Village (1826-1827) / S.V.S. Wilder -- Deposition (1824) / Moses Brown -- Law of Watercourses (1833) / Joseph K. Angell Town Clock (1828) / Pawtucket Chronicle -- Owners and agents. Memoirs (1878) / William Fisher -- Diary (1829-1830) / N.B. Gordon -- Thoughts, What probable effect the peace with Great Britain will have on the cotton manufactures of this country (1815) / Samuel Ogden -- The manufacturer's pocketpiece (1816) / Walton Felch -- Picture of a factory village (1833) / Thomas Man -- The moral influence of manufacturing establishments (1836) / George S. White -- Family labor, "mill girls," and mule spinners. Letters (1828-1831) / Hollingworth family -- Letters (1839-1845) / Sally Rice -- Letters (1839-1846) / Bennett family -- Life and religious experience (1856) / Hiram Munger -- Help wanted advertisements (1821-1832) / Manufacturers' and Farmers' Journal and Massachusetts Spy -- Records (1803-1827) / William Davis family -- List of employees / Ramapo Cotton Factory -- Death records (1829, 1823) / Asenath Maria Townsley and Samuel Newell -- Workers' contracts (1807-1830) / Pomfret Manufacturing Company -- Contract and memorandum books (1824) / Smith Wilkinson -- Factory rules and regulations (n.d., 1834) -- Weaving instructions (1815) -- The weaver's guide (1814/ Joseph France -- Labor contract (1823) / Greene Manufacturing Company -- Labor organization and protest. A state of excitement and disorder (183-24) / Manufacturers' and Farmers' Journal -- Notice to mule spinners (1824) / Providence Patriot -- Interesting law case (1829) / Pawtucket Chronicle -- Report of the Committee on Education(1832) / New England Association of Farmers, Mechanics and Other Workingmen -- Testimony, Thompsonville Manufacturing Company versus William Taylor et al. (1836) / John Adams -- The female preacher, or, Memoir of Salome Lincoln (1843) / Almond H. Davis -- Letter from the editor (1843) / Voice of Industry.

ISBN:

0262110849
9780262110846
0262060779
9780262060776
0262060779

Subject:

Textile industry New England History Sources.
Textile factories New England History Sources.
Textile workers New England History Sources.
Cities and towns New England History Sources.
Villages New England History Sources.
Textiles et tissus Industrie et commerce Nouvelle-Angleterre Histoire Sources.
Usines textiles Nouvelle-Angleterre Histoire Sources.
Travailleurs du textile Nouvelle-Angleterre Histoiree Sources.
Villes Nouvelle-Angleterre Histoire Sources.
Villages Nouvelle-Angleterre Histoire Sources.
Travailleurs du textile Nouvelle-Angleterre Histoire Sources.
Cities and towns
Social conditions
Textile factories
Textile industry
Textile workers
Villages
Quelle
Textilindustrie
New England Social conditions Sources.
Nouvelle-Angleterre Conditions sociales Sources.
New England
Neuengland

Form/genre:

History
Sources

Added entries:

Kulik, Gary.
Parks, Roger N.
Penn, Theodore Z.
Penn, Theodore.
Documents in American industrial history ; v. 2.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 95042
Call No.: ID:86-B18837
Status: Available