Browse Collections (13 total)

In the 19th century, the Merrimack River provided the energy that stimulated the rapid growth of the textile industry in Lowell and the surrounding…

These photographs show the machinery developed for use in Lowell’s mills. Along with the generators and turbines that converted potential energy to…

This collection contains late 19th- through early 20th-century pictures of mill workers, at work and rest, and the machines they used. Modern…