C. & G. Cooper Steam Engine at Manomet Textile Mill, New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1912

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Artifact Overview

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 Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

February 1912

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

84.3.7.28

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Blue

Dimensions

Height: 4.875 in
Width: 6.875 in