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Biographies in this Unit:

A black and white drawing of a white man with wavy hair and a beard and mustache. He sits with his body to the right, and looks slightly off to the right. He wears a bow tie, a collared shirt, and a suit jacket.
Ezekiel Straw

Documents in this Unit:

A large document on white paper written in black ink of a daily schedule. The title of the document reads "TIME TABLE/OF THE/AMOSKEAG NEW MILLS/Arranged to make the Working Time throughout the year average/11 HOURS PER DAY." The document is framed by a floral pattern.
Amoskeag Manufacturing Company Timetable
A vertical document with black printed text on white paper. The title of the document, placed along the upper border, reads: "REGULATIONS/FOR THE BOARDING HOUSES OF THE/MANCHESTER MILLS." Beneath the title are several paragraphs of typed text in a smaller font.
Boardinghouse Rules
A vertical document of six paragraphs of text in black ink on white paper. The title of the document, placed along the upper border, reads: "REGULATIONS/FOR THE/BOARDING HOUSES/ OF THE/MIDDLESEX COMPANY."
Boardinghouse Rules for Mill Girls
A slightly green horizontal document with a circular drawing of a man with white hair and a ruffled collared shirt in the center. The number "1" is placed in each of the four corners. Text in black and white ink appear above and below the portrait. The words above the portrait read "FEDERAL RESERVE NOTE/THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" and the words below the portrait read "ONE DOLLAR."
Federal Reserve Currency
An aged square document with black text typed and handwritten in cursive. The text on the document reads "A FIFTY CENTS No.____The President, Directors/and Company of the HILLSBOROUGH BANK prromise/to pay____or bearer/on demand FIFTY CENTS/AMHERST___Cash." On each of the blank spaces, names and initials are written in cursive.
Hillsborough Bank Currency
An aged horizontal document that has been torn in the upper right-hand corner. There is a black and white drawing of a young girl in a collared shirt with long hair on the left side of the document, and a large "No. 5" stamped in a darkened circle on the right side. The text along the top of the document reads "Merrimack River Bank" (with the "K" slightly torn). The text beneath the drawing of the girl reads "Pay to Bearer FIVE CENTS, When presented/in even dollars."
Merrimack River Bank Currency
A vertical black and white document of a hand-drawn map showing available land and buildings for sale, with a drawing of a multi-storied building placed on the banks of a rushing body of water. The title of the map, located to the left of the drawing, reads "MILL PRiVILEGE/OF/JAS. L. CHAMBERLIN,/MASON VILLAGE, N. H." Beneath the map are the words "VALUABLE/Real Estate and Water Power/FOR SALE OR TO LET," followed by three paragraphs of text, labeled "Lot No. 2/A SAW MILL FOR SALE" and "Lot No. 3/A FARM FOR SALE."
Mills for Sale
A horizontal document with the words "PISCATAQUA EXCHANGE BANK" typed in black text along the upper border. The number "5" is placed in each of the four corners, and the words "FIVE DOLLARS" are typed across the center of the document. Between the two number "5"s on the right side is a small, circular drawing of a ship on land, and between the two number "5"s on the left side is a drawing of the profile of a man with long hair in a ponytail, facing towards the right. In the center of the document is a drawing of a woman in a sleeveless dress, holding a bail of wheat, sitting in a large letter "V." To her right is a portrait of a man with white hair and a ruffled collared shirt, and to her left is a man with dark hair, a mustache and beard, and a broad-rimmed hat.
Piscataqua Exchange Bank Currency 
A vertical document, with black text on white paper. The middle of the document has several drawings of different types of pointed-toed shoes, labeled as either "Men's" or "Ladies'," with a price placed next to each drawing. The title of the document, located along the upper border, reads "ADOLPH MEYER & CO'S/WARRANTED SHOES!" Placed along the bottom border of the document are the words "FOR SALE BY/JERRY GOVE,/WILMOT, N. H./DEALER IN/Boosts, Shoes, and General/Merchandise."
Shoe Advertisement
A vertical, black and white document with drawings of three different, multi-storied buildings. The title of the document, located along the upper border, reads: "FRANCIS W. BREED,/MANUFACTURER OF LADIES' FINE SHOES." Along the bottom border are the bolded words "FACTORIES AT LYNN, MASS., AND ROCHESTERM N. H./ACTUAL RUNNING CAPACITY OF LYNN FACTORIES, 6,000 TO 7,000 PAIRS DAILY."
Shoe Factory Advertisement
A vertical document with black printed text on white paper. The title of the document, placed along the upper border, reads: " REGULATIONS/ TO BE OBSERVED BY ALL PERSONS EMPLOYED BY THE PROPRIETORS OF THE/STARK MILLS." Beneath the title are several paragraphs of typed text in a smaller font. At the bottom of the document, typed in cursive text, are various words and blank lines on which someone would fill in the blanks: "Manchester, N. H. ___187 /I. the undersigned, of ___ in the State/of ___ do hereby agree to conform to the/foregoing Regulations."
Stark Mills Employee Rules
An aged horizontal document with typed and cursive black text, with a faded landscape scene stamped on the right-side of the document. Typed cursive words appear on all four sides of the paper, facing different directions, and a large cursive signature reading "John Howard" appears to the left of the landscape scene. The text along the top of the document reads: "THE UNITED COLONIES/FOUR DOLLARS."
United Colonies Currency
A vertical document on white paper with typed text in black ink. There are eleven black and white drawings in outlined circles, ten small and one large, which border two paragraphs of text in the center of the document. The ten small drawings show different kitchen and household appliances that run on electricity. Underneath each drawing is a short sentence describing the appliance. The large drawing, centered along the upper border, shows a young girl in a nightgown, sitting in front of a Christmas tree, playing with a doll.
Westinghouse Electric Advertisement
A vertical document with a black and white photograph of two refrigerators, with a third photograph of an opened refrigerator placed among a paragraph of text.
White Mountain Refrigerator Advertisement

Explainer Videos and Virtual Field Trips in this Unit:

Mason Asks: What Were the Amoskeag Mills?
Mason Explains: Factory Work
Mason Explains: From Farm to City
Mason Explains: Railroads in New Hampshire
Mason Explains: Textile Production
Mason Explains: The Invention of "Free Time"
Mason Explains: The Story of a Shoe
Mason Explains: What Is Childhood?
Virtual Field Trip: Working Mills and Mill Work

Maps & Charts in this Unit:

A map of New Hampshire is seen, with rivers and bodies of water labeled, as well as towns and counties outlined and named. A large section in the north, as well as smaller sections throughout, are colored green. The title reads "MAP Showing the Relative Distribution of the Forest Cover of New Hampshire" and dated 1894.
Forest Cover in 1894
A colored vertical map showing a series of grided streets and buildings to the right of a river. Several of the streets are grouped together in colored sections - red, blue, yellow, and green - and are assigned a number. A long index is placed to the left of the map, beginning in the upper left-hand corner and continuing for more than half way down the page. The title of the map, located in the upper right-hand corner, reads: "MANCHESTER/N.H./PUBLISHED Sanborn Map - Publishing Co. LIMITED/117 Broadway, New York/ MAY, 1885."
Manchester Millyard
A black, gray, and white map of New Hampshire, showing various cities around the state that are located on major rivers. A compass rose is placed centered along the left-side border. The title of the map, located in the upper right-hand corner, reads: "COMMUNITIES/IN NEW HAMPSHIRE/WITH MORE THAN/10,000 RESIDENTS/1920."
New Hampshire Cities 1920
A black, gray, and white map of New Hampshire, showing various cities around the state. Many cities are located in the lower half of the map. A compass rose is placed centered along the left-side border. The title of the map, located in the upper right-hand corner, reads: "COMMUNITIES/IN NEW HAMPSHIRE/WITH MORE THAN/10,000 RESIDENTS/2010."
New Hampshire Cities 2010
A black and white map of New Hampshire, showing thin and curvy blue lines, large bodies of water, and one location, labeled as "Concord", with a black star marking its location on the map. To the left of the map is a box with the words "Lakes (>1000 acres)/Fourth Order and Higher Streams/BOUNDARIES/State Boundary" typed in black text, placed next to several curvy lines. The title of the map, placed in the upper left-hand corner, reads "New Hampshire Statewide Map Atlas/MAJOR LAKES AND RIVERS." Below the title and box are a compass rose and a horizontal line with little vertical lines placed at even intervals.
New Hampshire Major Lakes and Rivers
A black and white map of New Hampshire, as divided by towns. On the left, the words "NEW HAMPSHIRE/TOWN BOUNDARIES." To the left of the "State Boundary", "County Boundary", and "Town Boundary" words are waving lines of different boldness.
New Hampshire Town Boundaries
A line graph showing lines of varying height, in shades of red, orange, yellow, light green, dark green, and brown. The title of the graph, located along the upper border, reads "Population in New Hampshire Towns." There are several numbers placed along the left-side (vertically) and bottom border (horizontally) of the graph. The horizontal line of numbers, titled "Year," lists the following dates: "1840," "1860," 1880," "1900," and "1920." The vertical line of numbers, titled "Population," lists numbers 0 to 18,000, in segments of 2,000. The yellow, light green, and brown lines all start at relatively the same level, dipping only slightly towards the end of the graph. The red, orange, and dark green lines end much higher up on the graph than the other lines. The orange line remained in line with the light green, yellow, and brown lines until the year "1880," after which it jumped to be much higher on the graph.
Population in New Hampshire Towns
A yellowed piece of paper of the state of New Hampshire. Surrounding New Hampshire are the four border states, "Vermont, Maine, and Massachusetts", as well as "CANADA EAST", along the top border, which are typed in block text from left to right. Inside the state of New Hampshire are two colored sections, lots of text detailing the town names, and small symbols for the lakes, rivers, and mountains. To the left of the state is a large rectangle of text, titled "STATISTICS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE". In the top left corner is an illustration of the city of Manchester, and in the top right corner is an illustration of the "Concord State House".
Railroad Map of New Hampshire 1890
A black and white map of the United States, divided into four vertical sections, each represented in different shades of gray. The capital cities of "CONCORD," "WASHINGTON DC," and "ATLANTA" appear in the first section, from the right. The captial cities of "CHICAGO" and HOUSTON" appear in the second section, with "DENVER" and "EL PASO" in the third, and "SEATTLE" and "LOS ANGELES" in the fourth. Above each of the sections is a clock set at different times, each an hour apart.
United States Time Zone Map

Objects in this Unit:

A book of different colored and patterned pieces of cloth in rectangles.The left side of the book has, from top to bottom, three pieces of fabric with red dots on a black background and a floral pattern with vines. The right side of the book has four pieces of fabric that all have different versions of floral designs.
Amoskeag Fabric Sample Book
A book of different colored and patterned pieces of cloth in rectangles. The book opens in three parts, and the cloth samples are divided among the following titles, from left to right: "AMOSKEAG/MFG. CO/STAPLE GINGHAMS," "AMOSKEAG/MFG. CO/UTILITY DRESS GINGHAMS," and "AMOSKEAG/MFG. CO/A F C DRESS GINGHAMS."
Amoskeag Gingham Samples
A long wooden and metal gun, with a large base and thin barrel.
Amoskeag Rifle
A vertical piece of blue and white striped cloth, with three pieces of paper glued on to it. The first piece of paper shows an oval drawing of a series of orderly rectangular buildings along the banks of a river. Smoke rises above some of the buildings' chimneys. Surrounding the drawing are the words "AMOSKEAG MFG CO./FANCY TICKING" printed in white text on a gold and brown background. The second piece of paper shows a set of four medals and the words "EXHIBITION OF THE NATIONS/LONDON/1864" above two of the medals and the words "EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE/PARIS/1855" above the two other medals in white text on a gold and brown background. Text along the bottom of the paper, printed in alternating black and white ink, reads: "MEDALS/AWARDED/TO THE/ AMOSKEAG MANUFACTUING/COMPANY/FOR SUPERIOR EXCELLENCE/SHEETING, DRILLINGS, COTTON-FLANNELS/TICKINGS & DENIMS." The third piece of paper has two letter "X" printed in white ink on a gold and brown background.
Award-Winning Amoskeag Cloth
A tall, thin black cylinder which sits atop a circular base. On top of the cylinder is a vertical dome, from which a small black cone juts out sideways. To the left of the cylinder is another large black cone, which hangs from two black hooks. The large cone is attached to the base of the object by a long brown wire.
Desk Telephone
A red sleeveless vest on the chest of a headless and armless mannequin. The vest has black buttons in two columns going down the front of the vest, though several buttons are missing. Underneath the vest is a white shirt with a ruffled collar.
George Washington's Vest
The interior of a red sleeveless vest. Tan-colored fabric lines the inside of the vest, with red fabric on its borders.
George Washington's Vest (inside)
Two pieces of checkered cloth of different sized triangles. The larger piece of cloth is blue, black, and white, and the smaller piece is red, green, and white.
Hand-Woven Cloth
Four clear-glass lightbulbs, with slight peaks atop the rounded bulb and brass-colored cylinder bases.
Lightbulbs
Seven cellphones of different styles and sizes in a diagonal line. Three of the cellphones have antennas, but the rest do not. The keypads take up most of the space on the phone, and the screens are small.
Mobile Telephones
Two packages of paper towels. The sides of the packages are exposed, and the label on the front of the first package reads "New!/NIBROC TOWELS."
Nibroc Towels
Two brown paper cases and a metal box. The words "Nibroc Kraft Towels" appear on both of the paper cases in black ink.
Nibroc Towels and Case
A tall white rectangular box, with windows on the upper half and glazed-in red windows on the lower half. A black telephone hangs from a black and silver rectangular base inside the white box. The word "TELEPHONE" is seen in white letters on a red background on the upper border of the box. A blue and white sign sits above the white box and reads: "PUBLIC/TELEPHONE/BOOTH."
Public Telephone Booth
A black telephone with a square keypad with raised, numbered buttons, and a square base. The phone is attached to the base by a coiled, spring-like cord.
Push Button Telephone
A large wooden clock that stands vertically on its own. The face of the clock is gold-colored and the numbers are in black ink. Beneath the face of the clock is a large circular pendulum. The base of the clock has a brass-colored flip-switch and a singular gear.
Recording Clock
A black telephone with a circular keypad and base. The phone is attached to the base by a long black cord. Attached to the back of the telephone is another long black cord, with red, yellow, green, and blue wires sticking out of the end of it.
Rotary Telephone
A standing machine on four legs, which has two large wheels attached to the back of it.
Shoe Machine
A horizontal piece of wood with pointed ends, slightly rounded sides, and a hollowed-out center. Inside the center is a thin cylinder of wood, with one side larger than the other. On the right end of the cylinder is a wrapped up piece of string.
Shuttle and Bobbin
A brown wooden box with two brass, dome-shaped bells on the top. Below the bells is a circular brass plate, from which a small black cone sticks out. Below the cone is a rectangular brass plate, with ten brass buttons, five on each side. Blank labels are positioned next to each button. On the left side of the box is a large black cone attached to a green wire, which connects it with the box. The cone rests between two brass hooks.
Wall Telephone
A wooden sole of a shoe. The shoe is arched downward, as the heel is taller than the front of the shoe.
Women's Shoe Sole

Photographs & Prints in this Unit:

A black and white photograph of a group of men and two young boys posed in a line, starring at the camera. All of the men wear ribbons on the fronts of their suit jackets. Someone holds up a large sign in the back of the group, which reads "LOCAL UNION/NO. 75/CONCORD, N.H."
Abbot-Downing Company Union Workers
A black and white photograph of a series of orderly rectangular buildings, taken from a bird's-eye-view. The buildings are located along the curve of a river, with a narrow canal of water located between the center row of buildings.
Aerial View of Manchester
A black and white photograph of the inside of a building that has had its roof and left-side wall torn off. There is a large hole in the back wall, through which buildings on the other side can be seen. Broken pieces of machinery and wood lie on the floor.
Amoskeag Engine Room After an Explosion
A black and white drawing in an oval frame of a series of orderly rectangular buildings along the banks of a body of water. Smoke rises above some of the buildings' chimneys. A man sits in a canoe at the forefront of the drawing, and looks off into the distance at the buildings. The title of the drawing, located along the upper border, reads "AMOSKEAG FALLS, MANCHESTER, N.H."
Amoskeag Falls
A black and white drawing of a fire engine. The fire engine has a two large wheels in the back and two slightly smaller wheels in the front. A large basin sits among gears in the back of the fire engine. Steam comes out of the top of the basin. Two long hoses lie on the ground on either side of the engine. Two men stand to the left of the engine, and look slightly off to the right.
Amoskeag Fire Engine
A black and white photograph of a long, three-storied building, with six tall chimneys. Attached to the back of the building are three sets of covered porches and staircases.
Amoskeag Housing
A colored horizontal drawing of a gray, gold, and red colored train with a large smoke stack at the front of it, pulling a green and red cargo train car filled with coal. In the background of the drawing, there is a series of orderly rectangular buildings along the banks of a river. Smoke rises above some of the buildings' chimneys. The title of the drawing, located along the bottom border, reads: "OUTSIDE CONNECTED PASSENGER ENGINE./AMOSKEAG MANUFACTUING CO./MANCHESTER N. H."
Amoskeag Locomotive
A black and white horizontal drawing of a train with a large smoke stack at the front of it. The drawing shows two large wheels at the back of the train, and two small wheels at its front. A small sign hangs from the side of the train, reading "AMOSKEAG." The title of the drawing, located along the upper border, reads "Manufactured by/AMOSKEAG MANUFACTURING CO./MANCHESTER, N.H."
Amoskeag Locomotive Number 92
A black and white photograph of several rows of orderly, rectangular buildings. There is a tall church steeple in the background. The title of the photograph, located along the bottom border, reads "SECTION OF THE AMOSKEAG MILLS AS SEEN FROM THE STARK MILLS."
Amoskeag Manufacturing Company
A black and white photograph of a group of young white men wearing baseball uniforms and caps. They are posed in front of the camera, with the back row standing, the middle row seated on a bench, and the front row seated on the ground. The shirts of the men's uniforms have "AMOSKEAG" printed on the front. The center-most man in the back row wears a suit and tie and fedora hat. There are baseball bats, gloves, and balls positioned between the two men in the front row. A baseball field can be seen in the background.
Amoskeag Manufacturing Company Baseball Team
A colored postcard of rows of long, rectangular buildings of varying heights on either side of a river. An iron bridge connects one side of the river to the other.
Amoskeag Manufacturing Company Downriver
A black and white photograph of a damaged building after an explosion. The roof of the building is caved in, and the viewer can see straight through the hole to another building on the other side. Several groups of people stand and talk to each other to the left of the building. On the left side of the building is a horse-drawn wagon, and several blurred people move around the front of the building.
Amoskeag Manufacturing Company Explosion
A colored postcard of rows of long, rectangular buildings of varying heights on either side of a river. A covered bridge connects one side of the river to the other.
Amoskeag Manufacturing Company Upriver
A black and white photograph of a large group of men, women, and children standing between two multi-storied buildings. Everyone in the photograph looks up at the camera.
Amoskeag Manufacturing Company Workers
A collection of fifteen individual black and white photographs of women, each enclosed in connecting gold oval frames, five photographs by three photographs. All of the women wear their hair parted down the middle and drawn up in the back, and wear dark-colored dresses of different styles.
Amoskeag Mill Girls
A colored postcard of a long rectangular brick building, with two flat-topped towers. In front of the building is a grassy field with some melting snow on it, as well as some bare trees.
Amoskeag Mill Number 11
A black and white drawing of the side of a fire engine. The fire engine has a large wheel in the back and a slightly smaller wheel in the front. A large basin sits among gears in the back of the fire engine. There is a single seat at the front, placed behind a large horizontal steering wheel.
Amoskeag Self-Propelled Steam Fire Engine
A black and white photograph of a large cluster of cotton bales and horse-drawn carts on a wide street. Several multi-storied buildings line the street that runs horizontally in the background of the photograph.
Bales of Cotton
A colored painting of a settled town, with many houses positioned on curving streets and along a river, in the middle of a green valley between mountains.
Bird's-Eye View of Berlin Mills
A black and white horizontal print showing a series of grided streets and buildings along the banks of a river, taken from a bird's-eye view. The land on the other side of the river, and to the left of the grided streets, is rolling farm land. The title of the print, located along the bottom border, reads "MANCHESTER, N.H."
Bird's-Eye View of Manchester
A black and white drawing of a train engine designed to look like a giant boot. The engine pulls several carts of shoe boxes. The engine has smoke and individual shoes coming out of the top of it.
Boot and Shoe Card
A black and white photograph of a young boy standing to the side of a series of large machines. He looks straight at the camera, and wears a cap, a long-sleeved shirt, suspenders attached to knee-length pants, and tall socks, but no shoes. There are fuzzy particles of cotton attached to his pants.
Boy Sweeper in a Textile Mill
A black and white photograph of a group of boys standing on a sidewalk, looking at the camera. The boy closest to the viewer, wearing a a cap and a short-sleeved shirt with overalls, smiles at the camera. The boy directly behind him, wearing a cap, a jacket, a buttoned shirt, knee-length pants, tall socks and ankle-high shoes, covers his mouth slightly with his left hand. The other boys in the photograph are dressed similarly, and just look at the camera with curious or serious expressions.
Boys Working at Amoskeag Company
A black and white photograph of two children standing on top of a large machine. The machine has spools of yarns wrapped in cylinders along the top of the machine. The child in the background wears a cap, overalls, a long-sleeved shirt, and shoes. The child in the foreground wears a large hat, a frayed long-sleeved shirt, suspenders attached to torn shorts, and no shoes.
Children Working in a Textile Mill
A black and white photograph of two young girls working in a garden. There is a high fencce surrounding the garden, and a row of houses can be seen in the background.
Children's Garden
A black and white photograph of three horses pulling a wagon loaded high with barrels and small bails of cotton. They are outside a tall building at a loading dock. A group of men stand in the doorway of the loading dock, and two men sit atop the wagon's items.
Cocheco Mill Company Drivers
A black and white drawing of a large wheel attached to a long piece of machinery with many gears and pumps on its side. Almost half of the wheel is submerged in a hole in the floor.
Corliss Steam Engine
A colored drawing of the inside of a factory. There are several large cloth-making machines in long columns, with a pathway between each. Each machine is attended to by women and young girls in long dresses. In the forefront of the drawing, a young woman bends down and points to the underneath of the machine in front of her, and a man holding a strap of leather looks on from her left.
Cotton Carding Machines
A black and white photograph of three white men unloading a truck. One man stands on the truck's bed and hands down a large bottle-shaped container to another man standing just below the truck's bed, while another man stands off to the side. Several other containers, labeled with numbers, sit under a tarp on the truck.
Dairy Farm Workers
A black and white drawing of a cluster of multi-storied buildings sitting on the edge of a body of water. A group of ducks swim in the water and three men fish from the shore in the forefront of the drawing.
Dover Factories
A black and white drawing of a cluster of rectangular, multi-storied buildings. Two smoke stacks tower above the buildings. In front of the buildings is a road lined with telephone poles, houses, and other tall buildings. The road splits upon meeting the cluster, and runs on either side of the buildings. The title of the drawing, located in the lower left-hand corner, reads "Pacific Mills ca. 1910." In the lower right-hand corner are the words "Dover, NH."
Dover in 1910
A black and white photograph of a trolley connected to a suspended wire placed above the tracks. The trolley travels through a flat snowy landscape with snow covered trees in the background.
Electric Trolley Car
A colored postcard of a wide street lined with multi-storied buildings. The scene is depicted at night, with a full moon in a cloudy sky. All of the buildings have light shining through the windows. A trolley drives down the road with its headlights on. Several people walk along the sidewalks. Decorative iron arches with lightbulbs cross over the street at distanced intervals. The title of the postcard, located in the bottom right-hand corner, reads: "ELM STREET BY NIGHT, MANCHESTER, N. H."
Elm Street By Night
A black and white photograph of a large hole in the side of a brick building. The roof of the building is slightly caved in, and the viewer can see straight through the hole to another building on the other side. A group of three men stand to the right of the building, talking. On the left side of the building is a horse-drawn carriage, and several blurred people move around the front of the building.
Exterior of Amoskeag Engine Room After an Explosion
A black and white drawing of multi-storied buildings with tall smoke stacks. Smoke rises out of the smoke stacks. Two trains can be seen on train tracks along the bottom border of the drawing.
Factories During the Industrial Revolution
A black and white photograph of a white man working in a field with a shovel. A wide basket and wheel barrow sit behind him on the ground.
Farm Worker
A black and white photograph of a flooded river, rushing past rows of long, rectangular buildings. A caption in the lower right-hand corner reads "Manchester, N. H."
Flooding in the Manchester Millyard
A black and white photograph of a small girl working in front of a large machine. The machine has spools of yarns wrapped in cylinders placed in rows along the front of the machine. A man with a mustache stands in the background, looking at the camera.
Girl Working at Amoskeag Manufacturing Company
A black and white photograph of a woman, a young girl, and a tall boy working in front of a large, circular machine. There are many threads connected to the machine from a tower of spools of yarn. There are many machines of the same nature seen in rows in the background of the photograph.
Girls Running Machines in a Textile Mill
A black and white photograph of a grassy field to the left of a river, on which several sheep graze.
Grazing Sheep
A black and white photograph of a group of people in a large grassy field. Some drive a team of oxen or horses, which are attached to wagons piled high with hay, while others ride atop farming equipment pulled by a single horse.
Harvesting Hay
A black and white photograph of a dirt road surrounded by farm houses and trees. On the left side of the road are two telephone poles connected to each other by suspended wires.
Hopkinton Village Road
A black and white photograph shows the inside of a small factory. Men in caps and working clothes are shown gathered around stacks of white paper of various heights. The stacks are about three feet wide, and one of the stacks is taller than a person.
Inside a Paper Mill
A black and white photograph of the inside of a large machine that has been torn apart. A large cog lies on its side, apart from the machine, and has broken strips of metal draped over it.
Inside Amoskeag Engine Room After an Explosion
A colored painting of a brown, three-storied rectangular building with a tall pointed tower in the center of it. The smoke stacks of other buildings and a church's steeple can be seen in the background.
Jefferson Mill (1 of 2)
A colored painting of a red, three-storied rectangular building with a tall pointed tower in the center of it. The smoke stacks of other buildings and a church's steeple can be seen in the background.
Jefferson Mill (2 of 2)
A colored photograph of the interior of a factory. Three men stand at the center of the photograph and look at the camera. The title of the photograph, located in the lower right-hand corner, reads "INTERIOR OF LACONIA CAR WORKS, LACONIA, N. H."
Laconia Car Company
A colored painting of a white farm house to the right of a dirt road. To the left of the road is a tall gray barn. The road is lined with rock walls and small trees. A small boy in overalls walks in the center of the lane, holding a raised stick in his right hand. He walks behind two brown cows.
Lewis Nute Farm
A black and white photograph of a group of Black men attempting to haul a bail of cotton with a hand-held lift.
Loading Cotton Bales onto Trucks
A colored painting of a large body of water, with a town seen in the distance. Parts of the water rush down several small waterfalls and over large gray boulders. Two canoes float in the water, one on the left side of the painting and one on the right side, each with two people standing at the paddles on either side of the canoe. A group of people stand on one of the boulders and tug on a rope that is attached to a large log that is stuck between a set of smaller boulders.
Logging at Amoskeag Falls
The black and white photograph shows two teams of horses pulling logs in make-shift sleighs. In the foreground, two horses pull a man standing on top of a pile of logs, and in the background to the right, another man squats on a pile of logs as he drives his two horses. The horses pull their sleighs through an open area of forest. The downhill path is on uneven, snow-covered ground and moves around the remaining forested sections to provide a clear road. The ground and surrounding forest is covered in a layer of snow.
Logging Workmen and Horse Team
A colored postcard of a group of people walking away from a cluster of rectangular buildings of varying heights. The title of the postcard, located in the upper right-hand corner, reads "Noon Hour, Amoskeag Mills/Manchester, N. H."
Lunchtime at Amoskeag Mills
A black and white photograph of two pieces of damaged metal. One piece is shown from the legth-wise side, and the other is shown from the back.
Machinery After an Explosion at the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company
A colored painting of a tall pointed tower, a four-storied rectangular building, and four three-storied houses with chimneys.
Manchester Mills and Mill Housing
A black and white photograph of a city taken from a bird's-eye-view. There are several large buildings in organized rows in the background of the photograph, and houses and smaller buildings placed in grid-formation in the foreground.
Manchester Millyard in the 1960s
A black and white photograph of a group of men and children marching down a street. Many people carry signs on sticks and large, dark-colored flags.
March to Support Striking Workers
A colored drawing of a two-storied house on the banks of a river, with two large wheels attached to the back of it. Half of the wheels are submerged in the water, and two small waterfalls rush just beyond the wheels down into the river below. The banks on either side of the river have green grass and trees.
Mill at New Ipswich
A black and white photograph of a large group of people marching down a street and over a bridge. The photograph was taken from a bird's-eye-view. In the background are orderly rows of rectangular buildings along the banks of a river.
Mill Workers on Strike
A black and white photograph of a group of white men and women inside a factory. They are all posed in front of the camera, with the first row seated and the rest standing at different levels behind them. All of the women wear long dresses and the men wear short-sleeved shirts and overalls. The man standing at the center of the group wears a suit.
New England Mill Girls
A colored drawing of a white farm house, several out-buildings, and various farming equipment. Chickens, cows, goats, geese, a dog, and two cats roam around the fields and in front of the house. A horse-drawn carriage with a man and a woman seated in the carriage rides past the house, as a man, woman, and small child watch on from the front yard.
New Hampshire Farm Scene
A horizontal poster showing a black and white photograph of farmland and various out-buildings in a valley surrounded by mountains. The photograph is showcased in an oval frame, surrounded by a colored drawing of apple trees. Above the photograph are the words "NEW HAMPSHIRE FARMS," and below the photograph are the words "YOUR OPPORTUNITY."
New Hampshire Farms: Your Opportunity
A colored vertical poster of a fair ground, with horses, pigs, and cows being displayed. Groups of people walk around looking at the animals, while others watch a horse race in the upper left-hand corner. There are several single-storied buildings in the background of the poster. In the lower left-hand corner, there is a drawing of a cow next to some farming equipment, and there is a drawing of a horse next to some fruits and vegetables in the lower right-hand corner.
New Hampshire Grange Fair and Festival
A vertical black and white poster of a group of men working in front of machines inside a factory. The title of the poster, located along the bottom border, reads "CLAYS/OF NEW HAMPSHIRE/BY/DONALD H. CHAPMAN/NEW HAMPSHIRE STATE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION."
New Hampshire's Clay Industries
A colored postcard of a wide street lined with multi-storied buildings. The scene is depicted at night, with a full moon in a cloudy sky. All of the buildings have light shining through the windows, and the street is populated with cars and trolleys with their headlights on. Several people walk along the sidewalks. The title of the postcard, located along the upper border, reads "NEW YORK THE WONDER CITY."
New York the Wonder City
A black and white photograph of a white women pulling a single sheet of paper towels out of a paper towel dispenser that is mounted to the wall. She wears a coat that has lace on the collar and sleeve edges, a long skirt, and a hat. She stands to the right of the paper towel dispenser, in front of a sink and mirror.
Nibroc Towels Advertisement
A black and white photograph of the interior of a large room filled with rows of folded fabric on small platforms. The ceiling is held up by vertical poles spaced out across the room. Ribbons of fabric hang from the rafter's. In the background, there a sign that reads "ONE DAY'S PRODUCT," which hangs between two poles.
One Day's Production of Amoskeag Cloth
A black and white panoramic photograph of a city with many long brick buildings along a river. The title of the photograph, centered along the bottom border, reads: "Panoramic View of The/Cotton Mills at Mancheser N.H./by Alphonso H. Sanborn/Manchester N.H."
Panoramic View of Manchester Millyard
A black and white drawing of a group of men in bowler hats riding in a wagon that is being pulled by two horses. A sign on the side of the carriage reads "POLICE PATROL."
Patrol Wagon
A black and white drawing of a large pile of logs. Two pick-up trucks sit in front of the log pile.
Pile of Trees from Logging
A black and white photograph of a group of men looking at the camera. They stand in two lines in front of two long wooden tables. All are dressed in 19th century clothing and most have mustaches. There are various materials and supplies scattered on the tables in front of the men.
Pittsfield Shoe Company Workers
A black and white photograph of children playing on a play structure made out of long pipes, ropes, and hoops. A sign above the play structure reads "AMOSKEAG MFG. CO./CHILDREN'S/PLAYGROUND."
Playground at Amoskeag Manufacturing Company
A black and white drawing of a large group of people looking at tall boots and shoes. Some of the people have speech bubbles positioned near their mouths. A sign that hangs along the upper border of the drawing reads: "BOOTS & SHOES ONE PRICE CASH/SHOE STORE."
Poster No. 5—Boots and Shoes
A colored drawing of the inside of a factory. There are several large machines in long columns, with a pathway between each. Each machine is attended to by women and young girls in long dresses.
Power Loom Weaving
A black and white photograph of a large group of men, women, and children standing on a sidewalk in front of a store. The building has several signs on it, including: "PRINTING," "ENGRAVING," and "RUMFORD PRINTING CO. BOOK AND JOB PRITING, BOOK BINDING."
Printing Company Employees
A black and white photograph of a group of men standing on a large pile of logs inside a building.
Processing Lumber
A black and white photograph of a large machine, with two long rows of cylinders with light-colored yarn wrapped around them. There are several similar machines seen in the background.
Quilling Machine at Amoskeag Manufacturing Company
A colored photograph of two men, a woman, and a child sitting around a small brown box on a table. The child, the woman, and one of the men wear headphones attached to the box. Everyone in the photograph is smiling at each other.
Radio Advertisement
A colored watercolor painting of several large buildings and small houses in the middle of a large, open green field. Behind the large buildings is a river and to its left is a railroad track. The houses are in two rows in front of the large buildings and face each other. A road with several people in carriages is in front of the houses. Beneath this image is the title of the painting, which reads "SAWYER WOOLEN MILLS/DOVER, N.H."
Sawyer Woolen Mills
A black and white photograph features seven women in a shoe-makers workroom. They wear dark late-1880s clothing, with aprons of differing patterns. Their hair is tied up and they stand in a line, at an angle to the camera, with one seated woman. A long, shoulder-high work bench runs along the right edge of the photograph with random scraps of garments and small boxes on it. There are various small items under the bench and hanging on the wall. The left side of the photograph has tall racks of ankle-high boots.
Shoe Factory Workers
A black and white photograph of a group of white men and women inside a textile factory. There are columns of machinery with cylinders of white yarn at the tops of the machines. The women all wear long dresses and the men wear short-sleeved shirts and overalls. One man in the right side of the photograph is wearing a collared shirt with a vest.
Spinning Room in a Textile Mill
A black and white photograph of a column of organized piles of cut wood, placed to the left of a railroad track.
Stacked Lumber Waiting for Transport
A black and white drawing of a series of orderly rectangular buildings, taken from a bird's-eye-view. Smoke rises above some of the buildings' chimneys. A railroad track runs in front of the buildings, and a train enters the tracks from the right side of the drawing. Behind the buildings are vast grassy fields filled with trees. The title of the drawing, located along the bottom border, reads: "THE STARK MILLS/MANCHESTER, N. H."
Stark Mills
A black and white drawing of a group of white women seated in groups at tables in front of multiple piles of paper. There is one man seated at the front-most table. There is a dog laying down at the feet of a woman at the front-most table. All of the women have their hair pulled back and wear long dresses and long-sleeved shirts.
Stereoscope Factory
A pencil drawing on white paper of the interior of a four-storied building. The drawing shows a series of connecting conveyor belts and a giant water wheel. There are two brown stains along the right-side border.
Stevens Mill
A black and white photograph of five women seated in front of a wall with lots of wires sticking out of it. All of the women wear headphones, and are in the act of plugging a wire into one of the many small holes on the wall.
Telephone Operators
A black and white photograph shows the interior of a textile factory. There are roughly seven machines visible on the left and nine machines are visible on the right, separated by a walking path down the middle. A group of men and women gather at the center of the photograph and are positioned in front of and in between the machinery. The rigging and pulleys of the machines can be seen on the ceiling. An empty bucket and a bucket of bobbins sits to the path’s right and left sides.
Textile Factory Workers
A black and white photograph of a large group of white men and women posed in front of the camera. The women all wear long dresses with either long or short-sleeves, and the men either wear short-sleeved shirts and overalls or suits.
Textile Mill Workers
A black and white photograph of a group of seven white men inside a factory. They are posed in front of the camera, with two men in suits seated in chairs, and five men in short-sleeved shirts and overalls standing behind them with their arms crossed. In the background, there are two young women with their hands on their hips and each other who are also starring at the camera.
Textile Mill Workers and Bobbins
A black and white drawing of a woman working on a thread in front of a textile machine. She wears a short-sleeved shirt and a long skirt with an apron. There is a carton of cylinders with yarn wrapped around them next to the machine. In the background, there are women working in front of identical machines.
The Bobbin Girl
A colored vertical poster of four different scenes on a beach. The first drawing, at the top of the page, shows a group of men standing ankle and knee deep in a body of water, pulling at a black rope as a crowd of people watch on from the shore. The second, in an oval frame, shows a crowd of people on a beach, who are either walking along the sand, riding on horseback, or riding in a horse-drawn carriage. A caption beneath this drawing reads "STRAWS POINT RYE BEACH N.H./TERMINUS OF THE DIRECT ATLANTIC CABLE COs LINE." The third, a small drawing placed to the left of a drawing of cogs and gears, shows a single-storied house with an American flag atop a flag pole. The caption beneath this drawing reads "LIFE STATION AT RYE." The fourth, to the right of the drawing of cogs and gears, shows a large, multi-masted ship in a body of water, that floats among a sailboat and a row boat. The caption beneath this drawing reads "CABLE SHIP 'FARADAY'."
Transatlantic Telegraph Cable
A black and white photograph of a large pile of trash and dirt on the side of a building-lined street. There are also filled trash cans on the sidewalk.
Trash on the Street Outside Tenement
A black and white photograph of a group of people waiting in front of four trolleys. All of the men wear dark colored suits and bowler hats and the women wear long dresses and large, broad-rimmed hats.
Trolley Cars from Manchester
A black and white photograph of a two-storied store, in between two buildings of varying height on a street. Signs on the store read "AGRICULTURAL WAREHOUSE/JOHN B. VARICK."
Varick's Store
A black and white photograph of a group of girls posed in three rows on a set of stairs in front of a building's arched entrance. All of the girls wear knee-length dresses made from checkered or striped fabric.
Varney School Students Wearing Amoskeag Gingham
A colored painting of a large grassy area, with green and red trees and mountains in the background. On the grassy field are red and brown cows.
View from Lewis Nute Farm
A colored painting of several farm houses on either side of a dirt road. The road is lined with fences on the left and tall rock walls on the right. There are two other rock walls that form squares with the road's rock wall on the right side of the painting. Beyond the fencing on the left side of the painting are various small trees and bushes. A horse-drawn carriage rides down the center of the road, away from the viewer.
View Near Manchester
A black and white photograph of a large room. There are several rows of machines. The room has a tall ceiling and lots of poles that are black on the bottom half and white on the top half. The title of the photograph is centered on the bottom border, and reads "WEAVE ROOM, No. 11 MILL, MANCHESTER, N. H./Published by F. E Nelson, Manchester, N. H."
Weaving Machines at the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company
A colored vertical poster with a circular drawing of a person skiing down a hill on brown and green skiis. There are snow covered trees in the background. The person wears a black hat, brown scarf, and a green jacket, pants, and shoes. The person holds a single ski pole in both hands. Surrounding the drawing are the words "PATRON OF WINTER CARNIVAL-1924" along the top border and "CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, MANCHESTER, N.H." along the bottom border.
Winter Carnival Poster
A black and white photograph of a woman seated on a stool, weaving pieces of yarn by hand at a machine. The room she is in has tall windows on the right side wall, and light shines through them into the room. She sits with her feet placed up on the lowest rung of the machine. She wears her hair in a bun, a collared, long-sleeved shirt, and a long skirt.
Woman at Loom
A black and white photograph of a group of women in long white dresses and white hats, marching in a parade down a street lined with multi-storied buildings. The women at the front of the group hold a long horizontal sign that reads "FRIENDLY CLUB," though the "F," the "R," and the "I" are blocked by a woman who walks in front of the group.
Women Marching in Concord
A black and white photograph of a group of women seated at slanted tables, with large pieces of fabric draped over the tables. All of the women wear light-colored long-sleeve shirts and long, dark-colored skirts. A man stands along the right wall, with his hands behind his back. He wears a light-colored button-down shirt with the sleeves rolled up past the elbow, and dark-colored pants.
Women Working at the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company
A black and white photograph of a group of people posed outside of a long, three-storied bulding. Some of the people stand in clusters in the yard in front of the building while others sit atop a large pile of cut wood. There are also some people standing in the building's doorways, peering out of windows, and sitting on the building's side roof.
Workers at a New Hampshire Factory
A black and white photograph of a group of five boys and two girls, standing posed in front of the camera. Three of the boys have their arms crossed, and one of the girls has her hand resting on the shoulder of the other girl.
Young Workers at Amoskeag Manufacturing Company