Cotton mills at Manchester, New Hampshire, 1903 – Historic Photograph Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic image captures Cotton mills at Manchester, New Hampshire, 1903 in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Panoramic view of the cotton mills at Manchester, N.H.
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Cotton mills at Manchester, New Hampshire, 1903
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Manchester, New Hampshire, in 1903 was one of the largest textile manufacturing cities in the United States, built around the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company's sprawling mill complex along the Merrimack River. The Amoskeag works had been among the biggest cotton producers in the country for decades, employing thousands of workers, many of them French Canadian, Irish, and recent immigrants who lived in tenements and boardinghouses near the mills. Canal and rail lines fed raw cotton and coal into the yards and shipped finished cloth out, and the river's falls supplied the power that drove the looms. By the early 1900s, however, New England textile firms faced growing competition from southern mills, a tension that shaped the city's labor and civic life for years to come.
| Created / published | 1903 |
|---|---|
| Creator | sanborn, alphonso h. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--New Hampshire |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,731 px · prints to 18 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Panoramic view of the cotton mills at Manchester, N.H. |
| Reference | NH Cotton mills at Manchester 1903 |
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