[Rarebooks] fs: A 19th Century Textile Town in 1845

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

LOWELL, AS IT WAS, AND AS IT IS.

Henry A. Miles
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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