Lewis Hine, Photographer of the Child Labor
Wikipedia information about Lewis Hine, a man whose photographs were key to the change of child labor laws in the United States.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Hine Child labor Photographs
Many Photograghs from Lewis Hine, a photographer whose photos helped reform child labor laws in the United States.
loc.gov/rr/print/coll/207-b.html Child Labor Photographs by Lewis Hine
the photographs of inhuman conditions of child labor in the early 20th century.
ibtimes.com/shocking-child-labor-photog... Modern History Sourcebook: Leeds Woollen Workers Petition, 1786
This petition by workers in Leeds (a major center of wool manufacture in Yorkshire) appeared in a local newspapers in 1786. They are complaining about the effects of machines on the previously well-paid skilled workers.
fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1786machines.ht... Richard Guest: The Steam Loom, 1823
Information about Richard Guest,The Steam Loom,
1823.
fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1823cotton.html... Blackburn, Cotton and the Industrial Revolution
aboutlancs.com/cotton.htm Morse Code and Phonetic Alphabets
A listing of the Morse code, including punctuation and non-English letters.
soton.ac.uk/~scp93ch/morse/ Westinghouse Works, 1904
The various Westinghouse Companies were the product of the mechanical inventiveness and the business acumen of one man--inventor and manufacturer George Westinghouse.
rs6.loc.gov/ammem/papr/west/westgorg.html American Industrialization
home.earthlink.net/~gfeldmeth/lec.indust.ht... The Babbage Pages: Homepage
The Babbage Pages give an introduction to Charles Babbage`s life and work, and current research on Babbage.
exeter.ac.uk/BABBAGE/ A Chinese Canadian Story: The Yip Sang Family
A Chinese Canadian Story: The Yip Sang Family.
collections.ic.gc.ca/yipsang/ Immigrant and Ethnic America at HarpWeek.com
Within our first feature on immigrant Americans you will find material from Harper's Weekly organized using the seven categories..
immigrants.harpweek.com/Default.htm FSW's Links to 19th and 20th Century Architecture and Design - The Aesthetic Mov
19th and 20th Century Architectural History links to sites which illustrate the work of architects from the 1870s to the 1930s, a period when regional styles, decorative detail and hand craftsmanship flourished.
fswarchitects.com/links.html Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904
lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/papr/west/westhome.htm... Lesson: Industrial Revolution Women in World History Curriculum
Primary source materials from early nineteenth century England and Wales explore changing working conditions for women and children.
womeninworldhistory.com/lesson7.html Harriet Robinson: Lowell Mill Girls
In her autobiography, Harriet Hanson Robinson, the wife of a newspaper editor, provided an account of her earlier life as female factory worker (from the age of ten in 1834 to 1848) in the textile Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts
fordham.edu/halsall/mod/robinson-lowell...
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