1914
GUSN-188151
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 Shoes and the United Shoe Machinery Company. Inscribed on the back of the postcard is a note from W.S. Burgess to his aunt Hellen Adams, of Newport, Maine.
factories (structures)
shoes (footwear)
industrial buildings
footwear
industry (economic concept)
postcards
photographs
1 postcard
PC001
General photographic collection
2005-06-05
PC001.03.01.TMP.006
Gift
Haverhill (Essex county, Massachusetts)
M. Schlafman (Haverhill, Mass.) (Publisher)
postcards
photographs
Burgess, W. S.
Adams, Helen
United Shoe Machinery Company
Knights-Allen Company
W.H.Bunting, The Camera's Coast: Historic Images of Ship and Shore in New England (Boston: Historic New England, 2006) pg. 17.Original in Postcards - Haverhill, MA
Item
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