The Saco-Lowell Shops : : Textile Machinery Building in New England, 1813–1949 / / George Sweet Gibb.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013] ©1950 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Harvard Studies in Business History ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (835 p.) :; 1 Frontispiz |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- APPENDICES
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- TABLES
- CHARTS
- EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION
- AUTHOR’S PREFACE
- PART ONE THE FORMATIVE YEARS, 1813-1853
- CHAPTER I ORIGINS OF THE THREE PARENT COMPANIES 1813-1825
- CHAPTER II OPERATING AS A COTTON-MILL DEPARTMENT WALTHAM, 1814-1825
- CHAPTER III THE SHOP THAT BUILT A CITY Proprietors of the Locks and Canals on Merrimack River — Lowell, Massachusetts, 1823-1845
- CHAPTER IV BIRTH OF TWO INDUSTRIES AT SACO AND BIDDEFORD, 1825-1850
- CHAPTER V OTIS PETTEE AND THE END OF THE FORMATIVE PERIOD
- PART TWO THE ADVENTUROUS MIDDLE YEARS
- CHAPTER VI SPECIALIZATION IN AN EXPANDING MARKET
- CHAPTER VII THE GREAT YEARS OF THE “BIG SHOP”
- CHAPTER VIII THE YEARS OF DECLINE
- CHAPTER IX STATE STREET TAKES A HAND
- CHAPTER Χ RENAISSANCE OF THE NEWTON SHOP 1853-1897
- CHAPTER XI RESURGENCE AND DECLINE OF THE BIDDEFORD SHOP, 1850-1897
- CHAPTER XII COMBINED OPERATIONS: THE SACO AND PETTEE MACHINE SHOPS, 1897-1912
- PART III THE SACO-LOWELL SHOPS 1912-1949
- CHAPTER XIII THE HERRICK ERA 1912-1926
- CHAPTER XIV THE HARD CLIMB BACK 1926-1941
- CHAPTER XV WAR, POSTWAR, AND RETROSPECT
- APPENDICES
- NOTES AND REFERENCES
- INDEX