Cotton mill

Driving through New Bedford along Route 195, it’s hard not to notice the long red brick buildings on either side of the highway. These are the old textile…

Queen Street Mill Textile Museum, Burnley: See 220 reviews, articles, and 60 photos of Queen Street Mill Textile Museum, ranked No.1 on TripAdvisor among 29 attractions in Burnley.

Cotton worker Mrs Bannister carries 14 large bobbins (13 in one arm and 1 in the other hand!) from the "intermediate to the roving frames" at a cotton mill, somewhere in Lancashire.

During the 1930's, Harold Costain visited the Esmond Textile mills in Esmond, Rhode Island on assignment to photograph a purportedly thriving American textile ...

Working girl, circa 1900's

While the west was being settled, large factories sprang up back east that gave many women new opportunities. Women who worked in textile mills were called “Mill Girls.” However don’t the term fool you. The employable age was between 14 to 35 years old. And rule #1 was that they be single women. One ... Read more

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The impact of these images, by photographer Lewis Hine, were instrumental in changing the child labor laws in the U.S.

A young boy and a man are shown among the machinery in the carding room of the Pioneer Cotton Mill, which was in full operation by 1910, with W. H. Coyle a...