The Run of the Mill: A Pictorial Narrative of the Expansion, Dominion, Decline and Enduring Impact of the New England Textile Industry, Volume 3Portrait of the human, mechanical and environmental determinants of New England's textile industry, the social, technological, cultural, and economic factors that perpetrated its creation, consolidation and decline and the remaining legacy. |
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Birth of the American Mill 17001820 | 2 |
Utopia Inc 18141845 | 28 |
Adolescence 18201860 | 50 |
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