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The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company : a history of enterprise on the Merrimack River
- Title
- The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company : a history of enterprise on the Merrimack River / by Aurore Eaton ; foreword by Robert B. Perreault.
- Author
- Eaton, Aurore.
- Publication
- Charleston, S.C. : The History Press, 2015.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | HD9859.A5 E37 2015 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 174 pages : illustrations, map, portraits; 23 cm
- Summary
- This book tells the story of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, a corporation that played a major role in [the history of the textile industry]. The story takes us from the Amoskeag;s early origins as a small spinning mill at Amoskeag Falls on the Merrimack River in the early nineteenth century to its closing in the midst of the Great Depression. From its incoporation as a stock corporation in 1831 through its bankruptcy in 1936, the company exerted tremendous infuence over the landscape and the people of Manchester, New Hampshire." --From preface.
- Subject
- Amoskeag Manufacturing Company > History
- Amoskeag Manufacturing Company
- Textile manufacturers > New Hampshire > Manchester > History
- Mills and mill-work > New Hampshire > Manchester > History
- Fabricants de textiles > New Hampshire > Manchester > Histoire
- Mills and mill-work
- Textile manufacturers
- Manchester (N.H.) > History
- New Hampshire > Manchester
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-164) and index.
- Contents
- The Merrimack River -- The Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries -- The First Textile Mills at Amoskeag Falls -- The Original Amoskeag Companies -- Amoskeag Village -- The Birth of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company -- East Side or West Side? -- Powering the Mill Yard -- The Corporate Realm: The Mill Yard and Workers' Housing -- Creating the New City -- The First Mill: The Stark Manufacturing Company -- The Amoskeag's Own Textile Mills -- The Manchester Print Works -- The Amoskeag Machine Shop -- Amoskeag Steam Locomotives -- Amoskeag Steam Fire Engines -- Mechanics' Row -- A Visit from Abraham Lincoln -- The Civil War -- Amoskeag Gingham -- The Flywheel Disaster of 1891 – Floods -- The Amoskeag and Its Workers -- Child Labor -- The End of Prosperity -- The All-American Flag -- The Strike of 1922 – Bankruptcy -- Amoskeag Industries: Reinventing the Mill Yard
- ISBN
- 1626197741
- 9781626197749
- LCCN
- 2015939217
- OCLC
- ocn908072205
- 908072205
- SCSB-9484164
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library