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Exterior view of commercial buildings, Massachusetts Avenue and Boylston Street, Cambridge, Mass., undated

This exterior view of a curved commercial block at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Boylston Streets is viewed from the opposite corner. There are ...

Additions to mill for the Clark-Cutler-McDermott Co., Franklin, Mass., March 1917

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The Textile Factory in Pre-Civil War Rhode Island

The Rhode Island textile factory of the pre-Civil War period offers an ideal case study of the many influences that contribute to the shaping of all ...

Concord's "Factory Village": 1776-1862

As Charles Hammond puts it, the early history of the Assabet River and the "Factory Village" that grew on its banks is one of "frustration and failure.

The "Great Factory" at Dover, New Hampshire : The Dover Manufacturing Co. Print Works, 1825

Three corporations between 1820 and 1825 erected or consolidated a number of cotton mills with large print works. This was in order to introduce mechanical ...

Lobster factory, circa 1870

This is a stereograph of a group of men standing outside a lobster factory or cannery in Mount Desert, Maine. There are two men dressed in suits overseeing ...

Launching a "Six Master," Bath, Me.

This full color postcard illustrates the launching of a six masted ship. In the harbor a tug boat assists the launch. Each mast is topped with a flag, and the ...

New Bedford, Mass., speeders, Holmes Mill

Interior view of a factory with speeder machines. The machines line the floor, with mechanisms from floor to ceiling. No factory workers are shown. Spools of ...

Charles River, Mass., 1953

Reed photographed industrial sites on several different occasions during his career. In each instance, he worked to make the building appear natural to its ...

Illustration of the Derby Desk Company factory, Somerville, Mass., ca. 1912

Illustration, probably developed for advertising purposes, of the Derby Desk Company factory. The image shows several brick buildings, including one with ...

Burgess & Lang Bldgs., Haverhill, Mass., largest shoe factories in the world

An exterior view from across the railroad tracks of the front and side façades of the Burgess Building (on the right) and Lang Building (on the left) on Essex ...

The Burgess Building, largest concrete factory in the world, Haverhill, Mass.

An exterior view from across Essex Street of the front façade of the Burgess Building in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Charles Willis Damon, a prominent architect ...

Burgess, Lang & Co., mfg. buildings, Haverhill, Mass., largest concrete shoe factories in the world

An exterior view from across the railroad tracks of the front and side façades of the Burgess Building (on the right) and Lang Building (on the left) on Essex ...

Stereograph of the C.T. Sampson Shoe Manufactory, North Adams, Mass., undated

Workers pose outside the C.T. Sampson Shoe factory in North Adams, Massachusetts.

Noon, Waltham Watch Factory, Waltham, Mass., undated

Workers on their lunch hour at the Waltham Watch Factory in Waltham, Massachusetts. Several trolley cars can be seen in the distance.

Exterior view of the administration building, F.W. Bird & Son's Paroid Mill, East Walpole, Mass., undated

An exterior view of the offices at F.W. Bird & Son's Paroid Mill in East Walpole, Massachusetts, as seen from the railroad. Paroid was a type of roofing ...

The Old Factory at Sandwich where sandwich glass was made - 100th anniversary Exhibition, Historical Building, Sandwich, July 25-August 15

Exterior view of the Old Factory in Sandwich, with trees surrounding the buildings and two prominent smoke stacks.

Devereaux Mansion School cement work

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Group portrait of the employees of the W.K. Lewis Brothers Pickle Factory, Broad Street, seated outdoors

Group portrait, outdoors, of the employees of the W.K. Lewis Brothers Pickle Factory seated in front of the factory office. A dog is lying on the ground in the ...

Group portrait of three men and a horse-drawn fire steamer, Athol, Mass., ca. 1872

Group portrait of three men, two standing next to a horse-drawn fire steamer and one man seated on the driver's bench. The Athol Shoe Company building is in ...

Exterior view of a factory in Stoughton, Mass., undated

Exterior view of a factory in Stoughton, Mass., possibly "Fitzpatrick's." Men, women, and children are both seated and standing in front of the building, and a ...

Exterior view of the Newmarket Manufacturing Co. mill, Newmarket, N.H., undated

Exterior view the Newmarket Manufacturing Co. textile temill, with rubble and scaffolding in front and workers sitting and standing in large groups.

Exterior view of Tebo's Mill, Enfield, Mass., undated

Tebo's Mill in Enfield, Massachusetts produced woolen goods. In order to create the Quabbin Reservoir, the state government disincorporated four towns on April ...

Lasting machine shaping shoes in a Massachusetts shoe factory

"This is a shoemaker creating shoes on a lasting machine in a shoe factory in Lynn, Massachusetts. The "upper" of the shoe is placed over the wooden last. The ...

Burgess and Lang buildings, largest shoe factory in the world, Haverhill, Massachusetts

The full color postcard features two large factories: the Burgess and Lang buildings. The building on the right has signs for the Knights-Allen Company Turn ...

Fish drying in a backyard factory, Provincetown, Mass., undated

Stereograph features an exterior view of a home and its backyard. The yard is filled with screened tables on which fish is dried. Men and boys work with the ...

Adams Wood Mill, Stowe, Vermont, 1952

Reed created this photograph on commission for the mill, probably for an advertisement. Reed was drawn to the way the operator was almost obliterated from view ...

Employees at work tables

A group of nine male workers stand next to or lean on work tables in a factory. Several of the men wear aprons. There are small animal skins and patterns on ...

Burgess and Lang Buildings, Haverhill, Mass.

An exterior view from across Essex Street of the front and side façades of the Burgess Building (on the right) and Lang Building (on the left) in Haverhill, ...

Burgess & Lang Bldgs., largest concrete shoe factories in the world, Haverhill, Mass.

An exterior view from across the railroad tracks of the front and side façades of the Burgess Building (on the right) and Lang Building (on the left) on Essex ...