Engine Room at Manomet Textile Mill, New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1912.
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As a center for American textile manufacture, New Bedford, Massachusetts, was driven by steam. Factories housed huge steam engines that powered generators to create the electricity needed to run mill machinery. This engine room powered Manomet Textile Mill, just one of the nearly 70 textile mills operating in New Bedford around the turn of the 20th century.
As a center for American textile manufacture, New Bedford, Massachusetts, was driven by steam. Factories housed huge steam engines that powered generators to create the electricity needed to run mill machinery. This engine room powered Manomet Textile Mill, just one of the nearly 70 textile mills operating in New Bedford around the turn of the 20th century.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
February 1912
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
84.3.7.26
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 8.063 in
Width: 9.938 in
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