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Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[1963]
Description
The violence and radicalism connected with the Industrial Workers of the World textile strike of 1912 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, left the popular impression that Lawrence was a slum-ridden city inhabited by un-American revolutionaries. Immigrant City is a study of Lawrence which reveals that the city was far different. The book opens with an account of the strike of 1912. It then traces the development of Lawrence from the founding of the city in...
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Series
Publisher
Arcadia
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
The Gilded Age, c. 1870-1898, was a time of promise and expanding horizons for the people of Lawrence, known as "the Queen City on the Merrimack." Passenger trains, horse-drawn trolleys, and electric streetcars dominated transportation, one-third of the population worked in manufacturing, and thirteen newspapers brought the latest information to the city's burgeoning population of nearly sixty thousand people. Through unique images from the special...
Author
Publisher
Essex Broadway Savings Bank
Pub. Date
1972.
Description
A history of the city of Lawrence, beginning with the construction of the Great Stone Dam on the Merrimack. Other early events, such as the founding of Essex Savings Bank, the first hotel, and the Franklin Library (later the Lawrence Public Library), and information about train service, the mills, and the early history of the bank, are included.
10) The view from Shanty Pond: an Irish immigrant's look at life in a New England mill town, 1875-1938
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Publisher
Shanty Pond Press
Pub. Date
1999
Author
Publisher
Gloria Grillo Barsamian
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"This is a story of a City and its people. In 1912, Lawrence, Massachusetts was referred to as a Mill Town, run by the whistles and bells of mills and churches. Pasquale Foenia lived there with his parents, and people from over fifty nations, lured there by Yankee aristocracy promising them food, shelter and work... It is an historical look at how immigrant families persevered, their hopes, prejudices and love during the early twentieth century. This...
