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[Woolen Manufactory and Bridge, Ipswich, Massachusetts] – Historic Print

[Woolen Manufactory and Bridge, Ipswich, Massachusetts], [ca. 1810] — historic drawing
[Woolen Manufactory and Bridge, Ipswich, Massachusetts], [ca. 1810]. Historic drawing from the Boston collection.

(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 drawing captures [Woolen Manufactory and Bridge, Ipswich, Massachusetts] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The Ipswich River setting and the bridge running beside the works make this pencil drawing of a woolen manufactory in Ipswich, Massachusetts, a useful view of an early textile site. Dated about 1810, it comes from the John Rubens Smith collection at the Library of Congress. Smith, an English-born draftsman who worked in America in the early 1800s, recorded towns and their buildings in a careful topographical style. Around this time, small woolen works were spreading along New England's rivers, which supplied the water power that drove their machinery.

Created / published[ca. 1810]
Medium1 drawing : pencil.
GenreDrawings 1800-1820.
NotesJohn Rubens Smith Collection (Library of Congress). Ipswich. Massachusetts wollen [sic] manufactory & bridge.""
SubjectsWool industry--Massachusetts--Ipswich--1800-1820. Mills--Massachusetts--Ipswich--1800-1820. Bridges--Massachusetts--Ipswich--1800-1820.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,458 × 1,152 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-217652

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