Download or read book Lawrence Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Lawrence written by Eartha Dengler and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 1995-10-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawrence, Massachusetts is the first extensive photographic history of the city in over seventy-five years, and it offers more than two hundred fascinating images from the renowned Immigrant City Archives--many of them rare and previously unpublished. This fascinating visual history chronicles the growth of a city that began to rise from the plains of the Merrimack River in 1845. Conceived, financed, and managed by Yankee capitalists and designed to be a model town, Lawrence was among the earliest planned manufacturing communities in the country and it quickly became the largest woolen and worsted manufacturing center in the world. From the outset, Lawrence was the gateway to America for thousands of immigrants. Here, they found work, acquired skills, learned English, educated their young people, and eventually became citizens. By 1910, almost 90,000 people--representing 25 nationalities and speaking 40 languages--had made their home within the seven square miles that constitute Lawrence. Their unique story is told through images lovingly cherished in velvet photograph albums and old cardboard boxes, and gathered over the decades from the tenement attics and basements of those who actually lived the lives shown in these photographs. The images vividly portray America's industrial and immigrant past, and show the lives, work, aspirations, pleasures, and sometimes the suffering, of the people who created the city of Lawrence.

Download or read book History of Lawrence Massachusetts written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Latino City written by Llana Barber and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-03-08 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latino City explores the transformation of Lawrence, Massachusetts, into New England's first Latino-majority city. Like many industrial cities, Lawrence entered a downward economic spiral in the decades after World War II due to deindustrialization and suburbanization. The arrival of tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans and Dominicans in the late twentieth century brought new life to the struggling city, but settling in Lawrence was fraught with challenges. Facing hostility from their neighbors, exclusion from local governance, inadequate city services, and limited job prospects, Latinos fought and organized for the right to make a home in the city. In this book, Llana Barber interweaves the histories of urban crisis in U.S. cities and imperial migration from Latin America. Pushed to migrate by political and economic circumstances shaped by the long history of U.S. intervention in Latin America, poor and working-class Latinos then had to reckon with the segregation, joblessness, disinvestment, and profound stigma that plagued U.S. cities during the crisis era, particularly in the Rust Belt. For many Puerto Ricans and Dominicans, there was no "American Dream" awaiting them in Lawrence; instead, Latinos struggled to build lives for themselves in the ruins of industrial America.

Download or read book Immigrant City written by Donald B. Cole and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The violence and radicalism connected with the Industrial Workers of the World textile strike of 1912 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, left the popular impression that Lawrence was a slum-ridden city inhabited by un-American revolutionaries. Immigrant City is a study of Lawrence which reveals that the city was far different. The book opens with an account of the strike of 1912. It then traces the development of Lawrence from the founding of the city in 1845, when its builders hoped to establish a model mill town, through its years of immigration and growth of 1912. Donald Cole puts the strike in its proper perspective by examining the history of the city, and he emphasizes the immigrant's constant search for security and explores the very important question of whether the immigrant, from his own point of view, found security. The population of Lawrence was almost completely immigrant in nature; in 1910, 90 per cent of its people were either first or second generation Americans, and they represented nearly every nation in the world. The period covered by the book--1845 through 1921--is the great middle period of American immigration, which began with the Irish Famine and ended with the Quota Law of 1921. While Immigrant City concentrates on one American city, it reveals much about American immigration in general and demonstrates clearly that, in spite of the poverty that most immigrants fought, life for the foreign-born in America was not as grim as some writers have suggested.

Download or read book History of Lawrence Massachusetts written by Maurice B. Dorgan and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of Lawrence Massachusetts written by Horace Andrew Wadsworth and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-30 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardcover reprint of the original 1880 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Wadsworth, H. A. (Horace Andrew). History Of Lawrence, Massachusetts: With Portraits And Biographical Sketches Of Ex-Mayors Up To 1880 And Other Distinguished Citizens, Including Many Business And Professional Men Now Living. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Wadsworth, H. A. (Horace Andrew). History Of Lawrence, Massachusetts: With Portraits And Biographical Sketches Of Ex-Mayors Up To 1880 And Other Distinguished Citizens, Including Many Business And Professional Men Now Living, . Lawrence, Mass.: Printed By Hammon Reed, Lawrence Eagle Steam Job Print. Office: For Sale By Albert Colby's Sons, 1880.

Download or read book History of Lawrence Massachusetts written by H. A. Wadsworth and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of Lawrence, Massachusetts: With Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Ex-Mayors Up to 1880 and Other Distinguished Citizens, Including Many Business and Professional Men Now Living Ward Four. Janus Moonmousz, Hum K. Wznsrzn, Mucus W. Cons, Mama. N. Hows, (imam; W. S'mrmm. Camus H. Dawns. Arman Smart, 1mm (janus Manson, joun palsuzv, Ja., Camus A. Mccm. (imam-s H. Bun. Ward Three. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Vital Records of Lawrence Massachusetts written by Lawrence (Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of Lawrence Massachusetts written by H a (Horace Andrew) 183 Wadsworth and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book A Directory of Massachusetts Manufactures written by Massachusetts. Bureau of Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of Lawrence Massachusetts written by Horace A. Wadsworth and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Lawrence Massachusetts 1845 1918 written by Maurice Dorgan and published by Sicpress.com. This book was released on 2012-10-03 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maurice B. Dorgan's book contains a wealth of pragmatic knowledge on the city. A compendium of facts about every conceivable topic related to the history of Lawrence, Massachusetts. An invaluable tool constantly in use by researchers over the years. From the history of the eagle atop City Hall to Industrial Upheaval of 1912. This modern volume, was assembled with the cooperation of the Lawrence Public Library, to be an efficient reference edition, including a comprehensive index to all its contents. Forward by Louise Sandberg, Special Collections Library, Lawrence Public Library.

Download or read book The Report of the Lawrence Survey Studies in Relation to Lawrence Massachusetts Made In 1911 written by Francis H Mclean and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ...is included within the size given. Each dwelling has also its own small back yard, fenced with a wire fence four feet high. The plumbing system of one has no connection with that of any other dwelling, in order that those unoccupied in cold weather may be properly drained and freezing avoided, and a separate water meter is provided for each tenant in order that water waste may be properly traced and corrected. The interiors of these houses are quite as unusual to this type of house as are the exteriors, the arrangement of the rooms and stairway being such that a single stairway is able to serve as both front and back stairs and may be approached and entered onto from either the living room or the kitchen. The first floor of each dwelling is divided into a small front vestibule, a moderate sized living room, a generous kitchen together with the necessary accompaniments of pantry and dish closets, a back entry of sufficient size to accommodate a refrigerator and the cosy recessed piazza before mentioned. The second floor is utilized for bed rooms and bath room, three bed rooms in the five room dwellings and two in the four room dwellings, the bath room being so located that a register in the kitchen ceiling provides the necessary heat in cold weather. Throughout the buildings the window and door openings have been placed so as to preserve the greatest amount of unbroken wall space and in each dwelling one of the bed rooms has been made of sufficient size to accommodate two beds, thus small houses by skillful planning have been made comfortable quarters for reasonably large families. The buildings are built of common red bricks laid to easy joints in white mortar, all stone trimmings are of white marble with tooled surfaces and all wood...

Download or read book Lawrence Yesterday and Today 1845 1918 written by Maurice B. Dorgan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-23 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lawrence Yesterday and Today (1845-1918): A Concise History of Lawrence, Massachusetts, Her Industries and Institutions, Municipal Statistics and a Variety of Information Concerning the City In the preparation of this work, I have endeavored to produce a historical reference book, giving a compact story of the founding of Lawrence and its development up to the present day. The table of contents has been laid out in a manner that should make it easy for the reader or student of local history to find information relative to any particular phase or period of the life of the community. I have been painstaking in my search for facts, and I am.confiden't that what is printed will prove reliable. Much has been written about the early history of the city. The story of its conception and early development has been graphically told by able writers. But, little has been written, inla permanent form, about the activities of the last quarter of a century, during which the most marked progress has been made. In covering this great construe tive period, attention Chas been given to all the important happenings. To many of the present residents the story is familiar; to the more recent comers it should prove instructive, as I hopef it will be to future generations. T 0 those outside our gates, who read, it may be con vincing of the city's enterprise and progress, and its advantages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.