Recommended Sources
Image Title: Interior of cotton mill.
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- The Lowell Offering (1840-1845)
- The Lowell Offering (1840-1842)
- Lowell Publications from the Center for Lowell History
- Mill LIfe in Lowell, 1820-1880
- Music of the Mills
- Uses of Liberty Rhetoric Among Lowell Mill Girls
- A vindication of the character and condition of the females employed in the Lowell mills :against the charges contained in The Boston times, and The Boston quarterly review
Selected Reference Sources
Reference sources are useful for:
- Choosing a topic
- Understanding terminology
- Locating background information
- Identifying good search terms
- Identifying additional resources
Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century
Call Number: R 973.03 E56n
- See Textiles, v. 3, p. 277
- See Women, v. 3, p. 395
- See Industrialization and the Market, v. 2, p. 106
American eras : the reform era and eastern U.S. development, 1815-1850
Call Number: R 973.5 A512r
- See The Rise of the Factory, p. 89
- See Women at Work, p. 91
- American History OnlineA reference database
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