Author: Luke McMurrey
Publisher:
Published: 2021-05-18
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company was a textile manufacturer which founded Manchester, New Hampshire, United States. From modest beginnings in the near wilderness, it grew throughout the 19th century into the largest cotton textile plant in the world. At its peak, Amoskeag had 17,000 employees and around 30 buildings. The company's history is one of engineering genius and invention, enlightened city planning, and visionary leadership. It is also the story of the workers, including thousands of eager immigrants who came to Manchester seeking economic opportunity and personal freedom. The company struggled through labor disputes and conflicts between economics and altruism. When the doors finally closed in 1936, local business leaders saved the property from abandonment and extended the Amoskeag legacy through a new wave of prosperity. The author explores this revolutionary industry and its lasting significance in Manchester.
Author: Aurore Eaton
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 1
ISBN-13: 1626197741
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →:This book tells the story of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, a corporation that played a major role in [the history of the textile industry]. The story takes us from the Amoskeag;s early origins as a small spinning mill at Amoskeag Falls on the Merrimack River in the early nineteenth century to its closing in the midst of the Great Depression. From its incoporation as a stock corporation in 1831 through its bankruptcy in 1936, the company exerted tremendous infuence over the landscape and the people of Manchester, New Hampshire." --From preface.
Author: Tamara K. Hareven
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780874517361
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company shaped the social, ethnic, and economic existence of Manchester, New Hampshire during America's rise as a manufacturing power.
Author: Ross Welde
Publisher:
Published: 2021-05-18
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company was a textile manufacturer which founded Manchester, New Hampshire, United States. From modest beginnings in the near wilderness, it grew throughout the 19th century into the largest cotton textile plant in the world. At its peak, Amoskeag had 17,000 employees and around 30 buildings. The company's history is one of engineering genius and invention, enlightened city planning, and visionary leadership. It is also the story of the workers, including thousands of eager immigrants who came to Manchester seeking economic opportunity and personal freedom. The company struggled through labor disputes and conflicts between economics and altruism. When the doors finally closed in 1936, local business leaders saved the property from abandonment and extended the Amoskeag legacy through a new wave of prosperity. The author explores this revolutionary industry and its lasting significance in Manchester.
Author: Donnette Titus
Publisher:
Published: 2021-05-18
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company was a textile manufacturer which founded Manchester, New Hampshire, United States. From modest beginnings in the near wilderness, it grew throughout the 19th century into the largest cotton textile plant in the world. At its peak, Amoskeag had 17,000 employees and around 30 buildings. The company's history is one of engineering genius and invention, enlightened city planning, and visionary leadership. It is also the story of the workers, including thousands of eager immigrants who came to Manchester seeking economic opportunity and personal freedom. The company struggled through labor disputes and conflicts between economics and altruism. When the doors finally closed in 1936, local business leaders saved the property from abandonment and extended the Amoskeag legacy through a new wave of prosperity. The author explores this revolutionary industry and its lasting significance in Manchester.
Author: Aurore Eaton
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2015-07-27
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1625853297
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Amoskeag Manufacturing Company experienced extraordinary growth following its founding in 1831. The complex company developed land and water power and produced rifle muskets for the Union army during the Civil War. America fell in love with the beautiful, long-lasting colors and quality of Amoskeag's iconic gingham. The company's history is one of engineering genius and invention, enlightened city planning and visionary leadership. It is also the story of the workers, including thousands of eager immigrants who came to Manchester seeking economic opportunity and personal freedom. The company struggled through labor disputes and conflicts between economics and altruism. When the doors finally closed in 1936, local business leaders saved the property from abandonment and extended the Amoskeag legacy through a new wave of prosperity. Author Aurore Eaton explores this revolutionary industry and its lasting significance in Manchester.
Author: Gary Samson
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2000-10-30
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1439627444
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This fascinating and moving book brings to life the industrial and immigrant experience which gave birth to Manchester in the nineteenth century and continued to shape the city's destiny well into the twentieth century. More than a hundred years ago, thousands of immigrants from Europe and Canada were drawn to the mills of Manchester by the promise of a better life. In stirring photographs and text, Manchester: The Mill and the Immigrant Experience examines the aspirations, the struggles, and the everyday adventures of Manchester's immigrant families. Reaffirming the power of photography to move and inform us, Manchester: The Mills and the Immigrant Experience creates a vivid picture of life during nearly a century of rapid industrial change. We join the bustle of Elm and Hanover Streets in the 1880s, witness children working at the mighty Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, enter a Greek coffeehouse in the early 1900s, get caught up in the bitter labor strikes of the 1920s, and meet unusual local figures such as the Hermit of Mosquito Pond.
Author: Robert B. Perreault
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 1467127116
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Known as New Hampshire's "Queen City," Manchester could be called "Change City." Throughout its history, it has reinvented itself many times. From a Native American fishing and gathering place called Amoskeag to a Yankee colonial town known as Derryfield, it became a multiethnic industrial center, the "Manchester of America," home of the world-famous Amoskeag Manufacturing Company (1831-1936). When Amoskeag Manufacturing closed during the Depression, "the city that would not die" was reborn through more diversified industries that carried it through the post-World War II era. Several decades of urban renewal saw the demolition of many older buildings and entire neighborhoods. Lamenting the loss of Boston & Maine Railroad's Union Station and St. Mary's Bank's marble building, Manchester residents drew inspiration from the US bicentennial in 1976 to create a renaissance of interest in history and architecture, which brought about the adaptation to modern use of several remaining older structures. Yet more major losses came in 1978 and 1989 with the destruction of the State Theatre and Manchester's beloved Notre Dame Bridge.