textile factories

Looks at the technological changes that transformed the making of cloth, which became a key component of the Industrial Revolution that swept across Europe and America in the late 18th century. Includes an animated story that centers on a small New England community similar to Pawtucket, Rhode Island, where the first textile mill in America was established.

A memoir in which the author, stung by her father's death, searches out the history of her family, and the lives of other farmers and immigrant workers who populated New England's Merrimack Valley during the industrial textile age.

Pen-and-ink drawings of nineteenth century New England mills demonstrate their changes in architecture, power production and mechanization.

An historical novel written as the diary of Flora Rutherford, who is taken in by her aunt and uncle and must work at a textile mill to help them out.

Young Flora keeps a journal of her time in a textile mill after leaving an orphanage to live with her aunt and uncle, covering the dangers of being injured or going deaf, her feelings over losing her parents at a young age, and her struggle to help her relatives survive.