BIBLIOGRAPHY: 19TH CENTURY INDUSTRIAL HISTORY
IN MASSACHUSETTS
Primary Source Repositories for this Project:
American
Antiquarian Society
185 Salisbury Street
Worcester, MA 01609
508-755-5221
American
Textile History Museum
491 Dutton Street
Lowell, MA 01854
978-441-0400
Fax: 978-441-1412
Fall
River Historical Society
451 Rock Street
Fall River, MA 02720
508-679-1071
Lynn Museum
125 Green Street
Lynn, MA 01901
781-592-2465
Fax: 781-592-0012
(As of July, 2005, the Lynn Museum will be located
at the Lynn Heritage State Park, 590 Washington
Street, Lynn, MA 01901)
Lowell
National Historical Park Library
Library Servies
67 Kirk Street
Lowell, MA 01852
978-970-5241
Massachusetts
State Archives
220 Morrissey Blvd.
Boston, MA 02125
617-727-2816
Fax: 617-288-8429
Massachusetts
Historical Society
1154 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215
617-536-1608
Fax: 617-859-0074
Old Sturbridge
Village Research Library
1 Old Sturbridge Village Road
Sturbridge, MA 01566
508-347-3362
Schlesinger
Library of Radcliffe College at Harvard University
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-495-8647
Fax: 617-496-8340
Waltham
Historical Society
190 Moody Street
Waltham, MA 02453
Published Primary Sources
This is a beginning list. Note that many of
these sources below involve women who were the
diarists and letter writers. Operatives letters
and mill memoranda tend to be in unpublished
collections.
Blewett, Mary H., ed., The Diary of a Lowell
Mill Girl Caught Between Two Worlds, Lowell
Museum, 1984. Out -of-print; may be viewed in
Lowell National Historical Park Library.
Dublin, Thomas Louis, ed., Women
at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community
in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2nd Edition,
1981.
Eisler, Benita, ed. The
Lowell Offering: Writings by New England Mill
Women (1840-1845). W.W. Norton &
Co., 1977. Introduction concerning experiment
of Boston Associates as they planned for mill
center, using women as labor force, as a "shining
example" of virtuous and educated women.
Foner, Philip S., ed., and Lewis, Ronald L.,
ed. The
Factory Girls: A Collection of Writings on Life
and Struggles in the New England Factories of
the 1840's. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois
Press, 1977.
Larcom, Lucy, A
New England Girlhood Outlined from Memory,
1889. Northeastern University Press; Reprint
Edition, 1985. This Lowell mill girl's diary
is especially good for reading by students.
Lowell Historical Society, ed., Lowell
Views: A Collection of Nineteenth Century Prints,
Paintings, and Drawings. Lowell Historical
Society, Lowell, MA, 1985.
Merrimack Valley Textile Museum, ed., New
City on the Merrimack. Andover, MA 1974.
Prints of Lawrence 1845-1876, Occasional Reports
Number Two, (Museum now American Textile History
Museum, Lowell)
Robinson, Harriet Hanson, "Loom
and Spindle; or, Life Among the Early Mill Girls".
Press Pacifica; Revised Edition, 1976.
Spinner
Publications, New Bedford, MA 02741: Historical
and cultural publications on New Bedford, Fall
River and Southeastern Mass., including primary
sources and oral history on immigration, local
industries including textiles, cranberry growing,
maritime and fishing industries.
Zonderman, David A., Aspirations
and Anxieties: New England Workers and the Mechanized
Factory System, 1815-1850. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1992. Contains primary
sources on mill girls, child labor and early
industrial history in first half of 19th century
and provides an excellent bibliography on primary
sources.
Online Primary Sources
Kid
Info: Immigration, Industrial Revolution
(general)
Library of Congress
American Memory Learning Page (general)
See also: Lesson
Framework - Primary Sources
Lizzie
Borden and Fall River Center for Computer-Based
Instructional Technology, University of Mass.
Amherst
National
Archives and Records Administration The
Digital Classroom contains primary sources,
activities, and research tools
New
York State Archives has sample lessons from
Consider the Source book
Primary
Source Professional Development for K-12
Teachers in History and Humanities
Primary
Source Media American Journey documents
on CD-Rom with related booklet of worksheets
developed by National Archives. See also
city
directories, including Massachusetts cities.
Women
and Social Movements in the US 1830-1930
(Thomas Dublin site contains Lowell information)
Instructional Materials Including Primary
Sources
Cobblestone
Magazine, Teaching with Primary Sources
series includes Immigrant Experience and
Child Labor.
Consider
the Source: Historical Records in the Classroom,
University of the State of New York, State Education
Department and New York State Archives, Albany,
NY 12230, 1996.
Discovery
Enterprises Ltd, Perspectives on History
Series contain primary and secondary
source materials on specific periods and events
in American history, including industrial revolution
and labor history. Educator's Guides to Series&emdash;Using
Primary Sources, also available.
Jackdaws
Publications (portfolios of primary source
documents); published by Golden Owl Publishing
Co., Amawalk, NY 10501.
Social
Education, the journal of the National
Council for the Social Studies, has a regualr
feature known as Teaching with Documents.
Teaching
with Historical Places, National Park Service,
National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington,
DC (teaching materials tie into National Register
of Historic Places sites of NPS, using historic
sites as primary sources).
Secondary Sources:
Abbott, Richard H., Cotton
and Capital: Boston Businessmen and Antislavery
Reform, 1854-1868. Univesity of Massachusetts
Press, 1991.
Bedford, Henry F., Their
Lives and Their Numbers: The Condition of Working
People in Massachuetts, 1870-1900. Cornell
University Press, 1995.
Blewett, Mary H., Men,
Women, and Work: Class, Gender and Protest in
the New Englnad Shoe Industry, 1780-1910.
University of Illinois Press, 1988.
Blewett, Mary H., Surviving
Hard Times: The Working People of Lowell.
Museum of American Textile History (Lowell Museum),
1982.
Cameron, Ardis, Radicals
of the Worst Sort: Laboring Women of Lawrence,
Massachusetts, 1860- 1912.
University of Illinois Press, Revised Edition
1995.
Cole, Donald B. Immigrant
City: Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1845-1921.
University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
Dawley, Alan, Class
and Community: The Industrial Revolution in
Lynn. Harvard University Press, 25th
Anniv. Edition, 2000.
Dublin, Thomas, Women
at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community
in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860.
Columbia University Press, 2nd ed Ed, 1981.
Faler, Paul. Mechanics
and Manufacturers in the Early Industrial Revolution:
Lynn, Massachusetts, 1780-1860. Albany,
NY: State Univ. of New York Press, 1981.
Folsom, Michael Brewster and Steven D. Lubar,
eds. The
Philosophy of Manufactures: Early Debates over
Industrialization in the United States.
Documents in American Industrial History,
Vol.1. MIT Press, 1982.
Foner, Philip S., From
the Founding of the American Federation of Labor
to the Emergence of American Imperialism:
History of the Labor Movement in the United
States. International Publishers, 1955.
Fones-Wolf, and Martin Kaufman,
Labor in Massachusetts: Selected Essays.
Westfield State College, 1990.
Garraty, John A., ed., Labor and Capital
in the Gilded Age: Testimony Taken by the Senate
Committee upon the Relation Between Labor and
Capital - 1883. Boston: Little, Brown, 1968.
Green, James R., and Hugh Carter Donahue. Boston's
Workers: A Labor History. Boston Public
Library, 1978.
Gross, Laurence F., The
Course of Industrial Decline: The Boott Cotton
Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1835-1955.
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
Handlin, Oscar. Boston's
Immigrants 1790-1880: A Study in Acculturation.
Belknap Press; Rev&Enlrgd Edition 1991.
Handlin, Oscar. The
Uprooted. Little Brown & Co., Rei
ed. 1990.
Handlin, Oscar. The
Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations
That Made the American People. University
of Pennsylvania Press, 2nd Edition 2002.
Hartford, William, Working
People of Holyoke: Class and Ethnicity in a
Massachusetts Mill Town, 1850-1960 (Class and
Culture). Rutgers University Press,
1991.
Juravich, Tom, William F. Hartford, and James
R. Green, Commonwealth
of Toil: Chapters in the History of Massachusetts
Workers and Their Unions. University
of Massachusetts Press, 1996.
Lewis, Rob, Images
of America: Fall River. Arcadia Publishing
Reissue Edition 2003.
Lubar, Steven, Engines
of Change: The American Reolution, 1790-1860.
Smithsonian Books, 1986.
Macauley, David, Mill.
Houghton Mifflin/ Walter Lorraine Books, 1989.
Good understandable illustrations and descriptions
for students.
Murphy, Theresa Anne, Ten
Hours' Labor: Religion, Reform, and Gender in
Early New England. Cornell University
Press, 1992.
Prude, Jonathon, The
Coming of Industrial Order: Town and Factory
Life in Rural Massachusetts, 1810-1860.
Cornell University Press, New Ed Edition, 1985.
Silvia, Philip T. Jr., ed., Victorian Vistas:
Fall River. Three Volumes. Vol. I, 1865-1885,
Fall River: R.E. Smith Printing Co. 1987. Available
through First Federal Savings Bank of America,
Fall River, MA 02720. (May be out-of-print but
can be viewed in libraries.)
Tager, Jack and John W. Ifkovic, eds, Massachusetts
in the Gilded Age. University of Massachusetts
Press, 1985.
Wilkie, Richard W. and Jack Tager, The
Historical Atlas of Massachusetts. University
of Massachusetts Press, 1991.
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