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Author : Lowell Historic Canal District Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Government publications
ISBN : PURD:32754076364003
Author : Mary Carolyn Beaudry,Stephen A. Mrozowski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : PURD:32754074743455
Author : Mary Carolyn Beaudry,Stephen A. Mrozowski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : UCBK:C023101156
Author : Patrick M. Malone
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780801897351
Winner, 2010 Peter Neaverson Award, Association for Industrial Archaeology Patrick M. Malone demonstrates how innovative engineering helped make Lowell, Massachusetts, a potent symbol of American industrial prowess in the 19th century. Waterpower spurred the industrialization of the early United States and was the principal power for textile manufacturing until well after the Civil War. Industrial cities therefore grew alongside many of America’s major waterways. Ideally located at Pawtucket Falls on the Merrimack River, Lowell was one such city—a rural village rapidly transformed into a booming center for textile production and machine building. Malone explains how engineers created a complex canal and lock system in Lowell which harnessed the river and powered mills throughout the city. James B. Francis, arguably the finest engineer in 19th-century America, played a key role in the history of Lowell’s urban industrial development. An English immigrant who came to work for Lowell’s Proprietors of Locks and Canals as a young man, Francis rose to become both the company’s chief engineer and its managing executive. Linking Francis’s life and career with the larger story of waterpower in Lowell, Malone offers the only complete history of the design, construction, and operation of the Lowell canal system. Waterpower in Lowell informs broader understanding of urban industrial development, American scientific engineering, and the environmental impacts of technology. Its clear and instructional discussions of hydraulic technology and engineering principles make it a useful resource for a range of courses, including the history of technology, urban history, and American business history.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0738539325
Lowell, a historic industrial city, owes its life to the broad Merrimack River. Renowned for its water-powered textile mills, it was also a city rich in natural beauty, where spiritual and cultural values took root. Postcards from the 1890s to the 1940s bear witness to riverscapes, varied waterways, arched bridges, and green parks. Vintage cards depict grand churches and stately mansions, some now altered or gone, and rare interior views. Informative text accompanies the images of yellowbricked colleges, pastoral neighboring environs, dignified cemeteries, and imposing monuments, such as the captivating Lion Monument.
Author : Thomas Dublin
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0912627468
Tells the story of America's first large-scale planned industrial community, Lowell, Massachusetts. Illustrations include paintings, maps, drawings, and black and white and color photographs.
Author : Robert Weible
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000322516
Author : Massachusetts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1862 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015068252009
Author : Cathy Stanton
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1558495479
In the early nineteenth century, Lowell, Massachusetts, was widely studied and emulated as a model for capitalist industrial development. One of the first cities in the United States to experience the ravages of deindustrialization, it was also among the first places in the world to turn to its own industrial and ethnic history as a tool for reinventing itself in the emerging postindustrial economy. The Lowell Experiment explores how history and culture have been used to remake Lowell and how historians have played a crucial yet ambiguous role in that process. The book focuses on Lowell National Historical Park, the flagship project of Lowell's new cultural economy. When it was created in 1978, the park broke new ground with its sweeping reinterpretations of labor, immigrant, and women's history. It served as a test site for the ideas of practitioners in the new field of public history--a field that links the work of professionally trained historians with many different kinds of projects in the public realm. The Lowell Experiment takes an anthropological approach to public history in Lowell, showing it as a complex cultural performance shaped by local memory, the imperatives of economic redevelopment, and tourist rituals--all serving to locate the park's audiences and workers more securely within a changing and uncertain new economy characterized by growing inequalities and new exclusions. The paradoxical dual role of Lowell's public historians as both interpreters of and contributors to that new economy raises important questions about the challenges and limitations facing academically trained scholars in contemporary American culture. As a long-standing and well-known example of culture-led re-development, Lowell offers an outstanding site for exploring questions of concern to those in the fields of public and urban history, urban planning, and tourism studies.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030161616
Author : Massachusetts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2266 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Massachusetts
ISBN : CHI:74641580
Author : Clement Wood
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787208827
Originally published in 1926, this book by Clement Wood is a critical study of the creative work and influence of noted American poet Amy Lawrence Lowell (1874-1925), whose “glittering verses, her militant prefaces and critical studies, her constant packed platform appearances had elevated her to a commanding place,” and had earned her a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926. Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, Amy Lowell, who was sister to astronomer Percival Lowell and Harvard president Abbott Lawrence Lowell, published her first work in 1910 in Atlantic Monthly. This was followed two years later by her first published collection of her poetry, A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass. An avid adherent to the “free verse” method of poetry, Amy Lowell became one of the major champions of this method of poetry-writing. Throughout her working life, she was a promoter of both contemporary and historical poets. Her 1921 book Fir-Flower Tablets was a poetical reworking of literal translations of the works of ancient Chinese poets, notably Li Tai-po (A.D. 701-762). Her writing also included critical works on French literature. At the time of her death in 1925, she was attempting to complete her two-volume biography of John Keats, of whom she wrote: “the stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius.”
Author : Richard P. Howe Jr.
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439654460
Lowell, Massachusetts, stands apart as an exceptional city. Bursting onto the scene in the 1820s, Lowell quickly became the workshop of America, powered by the mighty Merrimack River and staffed by tens of thousands of immigrants. Even as the mill era faded, people from around the world kept coming to live and work in Lowell. In the 1970s, community leaders imagined a new Lowell built on its legendary past and echoing its early innovation, a renewed city that is now a global model for urban revitalization. Since then, more than 400 buildings have been preserved, and the city has become a hub of higher education, a center for the arts, and home to a National Historical Park. This remarkable transformation has been fueled by the cultural vitality of its people, which is continuously refreshed by new arrivals from every corner of the globe.
Author : Lowell Historical Society
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439632314
From its birth in 1826, Lowell has thrived, declined, and been resurrected as a mill city. Today, it is celebrated for its rich history. These postcards from the 1890s to the 1940s display the energy of this industrial city and its native and immigrant population as it grew, built, worked, and played. Vintage cards capture both familiar mills along the Merrimack River and vanished businesses. Coupled with compelling narrative, they tell stories of a horse-drawn fire engine, textile mill workers, grand civic buildings, floods, and even the aftermath of an explosion.
Author : Alonzo Hall Quint
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Massachusetts
ISBN : UCAL:$B310553
