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Primary Sources

• 1853 Time Table of the Lowell Mills
• 1851 Time Table of the Lowell Mills
• Middlesex Mills Company Regulations (1846)
• Recruitment Letter by John Clark (1847) (letter and transcription)
• Hamilton Company Factory Rules (1848)
• Lowell Factory Girls Association Constitution (1836)
• Middlesex Mills Boardinghouse Regulations
• Famine Irish Relief, Voice of Industry Feb. 26, 1847 (transcription)
• Famine Irish Relief, Voice of Industry, Feb.26, 1847 (PDF, complete issue)
• Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Lowell p.11
• An Idyll of Work
• Loom and Spindle p.6-7
• The General Appearance of Mill Workers by Charles Dickens
• The Voice of Industry on Female Labor (transcription)
• Sarah White Letter ?Sin?
• Letter from Harriet Farley (Susan) newly arrived in May 1844 (transcription)
• Letter from Harriet Farley in mill June 1844 (transcription)
• Mary Ann Cowles letter 1847 (transcription)
• Letter by Eliza Ann Bixby 1850's (transcription)
• Letter 1855 Emma ?Lizzy? Clough (transcription)
• ?Bobbin Girl? by Winslow Homer
• Tintype (5 Young Women)
• East View of Lowell (painting) 1839
• Merrimack Street 1856
• Merrimack Mills Boardinghouse 1847
• Samuel Lawrence Residence 1850
  

Useful Websites

• ?Caught Between Two Worlds: The Diary of a Lowell Mill Girl?
• ?Investigation of Labor Conditions? 1845 (a report investigating the conditions within the mills
• The Voice of Industry

Video

• Lowell Mills Video