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Lowell Mills: Primary Sources
How did industrial development and innovation shape the stories and identities of mill girls, reformers, innovators, and immigrants?
Lowell Mills: General Resources
The Worker Experience
The Boarding House Experience
The Overseer Perspective
Machine and Technology Experience
Worker Experience: Lowell Operatives
Letters of Emeline Larcom
Lucy Larcom: Lowell Mill Girls (From Lucy Larcom, A New England Girlhood Outlined from Memory, 1889)
Life at Lowell Mills
Lowell Mill Girls Letters
Anonymous Mill Girl Letters
Harriet Farley: Lowell Offering September 1844
LETTER WRITTEN TO A BOSTON NEWSPAPER BY A LOWELL FACTORY GIRL
Mill Girl Images
Charts and Graphs
Weekly Wages
Population in Lowell 1825-1880
Cost of Living 1828-1859
Boarding House Keepers 1840-1880
Health Archives Artifacts
Lowell Corporation Hospital Records
Lowell Bill of Mortality
Letter by City Physician
Injury Report
Songs
Female Labor Reform
Factory Girls
Condition of the Operatives
You Cannot Unite
Lucy Larcom and Idyl of Work
Mary Paul Letters
Lowell Offering
Regulations to be Observed by Persons Employed in the Boott Cotton Mills
Timetable of the Lowell Mills
Investigation of Labor Conditions 1845
"Early Factory Labor in New England" by Harriet Robinson
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