[Rarebooks] fs: Lowell, Portrait of a Mill City (1845)

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Miles, Henry A. LOWELL, AS IT WAS, AND AS IT IS. Lowell; Powers and
Bagley: 1845.

An early survey of the textile mill city of Lowell, one of the testing
grounds for the 19th-century "paternalism" experiment with factory
workers. Lowell was created almost from open fields along a riverbank as a
textile city just a few decades prior to the publication of this book, and
it was very much a work in progress at the time of writing. The lives of
the mill girls were ordered by the factory owners to the 'nth degree, and
every minute of their day was accounted for -all in the name of bettering
their lives. This attractive handbook includes a history of the
development of the city, a description of its factories and mills, of the
lives of the workers, an interesting chapter on the "Moral Police of the
Corporations", and a folding map. There is also an attractive folding view
of the city as seen from the opposite river bank.

Hardcover. 4"x6.5", 234 pages, folding map; folding plate. Embossed cloth
covers, as issued, covers a bit dusty, spine head a bit threaded, a few
internal spots, but a nice copy. [03067] $150.00

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