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Center for Lowell History - Website for the **University of Massachusetts Lowell** Center for Lowell History, including maps, digital images, ethnicity data, exhibits and essays and more. [|Berwick Academy Mill Girls Page] This website was created by a fifth grade class at Berwick Academy in Maine. It's not ideal and some of it is a little on the young side, but it might have some good information. The data is sources to the Tsongas Industrial History Center, so it might make as much sense to just go there. The way they do the "People" section is clever. Lowell Mill Girls- Minimal information from a UMASS Lowell faculty site. Liberty Rhetoric Among Lowell Mill Girls Images, photos, maps, etc. [|Chronicling America] Information from newspapers from 1690 and images from newspapers from 1880. Some advertisement, etc. Most from midwest and west. [|American History Online Database] Search Widgetmedia type="custom" key="4436893" [|Kate's Industrial Revolution Wiki]

Online Books
__Loom and Spindle or, Life Among the Early Mill Girls__ by Harriet Robinson c.1898 full text from Google Books. Lowell by John Pendergast- //This is one of those Images of America books that came out about 10 years ago for every town everywhere. It's full text on Google Books and seems to have some pretty good information. If desired, we could order hard copies as well.// Mill and Mansion by John Coolidge- This is a study of architecture and society 1820-1865. Google Books full text. __History of Lowell and its People__ by Frederick W. Coburn, third ed., c.1920, Google Books full text. Kids on Strike by Susan Campbell Bartoletti- Mill workers strike of 1834, etc., Google Books full text. The Lowell Mill Girlsby Alice K. Flannigan grade 5-8. Images and photographs. Good lower-level reading.

Books
//to be purchased:// __The Lowell Experiment__ by Cathy Stanton __The Mill Girls: Lucy Larcom, Harriet Hansom Robinson, Sarah G, Bagley__ by Bernie Selden - Focuses on the lives of Lucy Larcom, Harriet Hanson Robinson, and Sarah G. Bagley, who survived the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, to become dynamic and ideal nineteenth-century women.

__1900+ Resources__
__Bread and Roses, Too__ by Katherine Patterson __Counting on Grace__ by Elizabeth Winthrop [|Millies] - A film made by a Lawrence based filmmaker about mill girls.