The Saco-Lowell Shops: Textile Machinery Building in New England, 1813–1949

George Sweet Gibb

Published by Harvard University Press 1950

The Saco-Lowell Shops

Textile Machinery Building in New England, 1813–1949

George Sweet Gibb

Volume 16 in the series Harvard Studies in Business History

https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674281707

Contents

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
APPENDICES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xvii
ILLUSTRATIONS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xxi
TABLES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xxvii
CHARTS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xxx
EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xxxi
AUTHOR’S PREFACE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xxxv
PART ONE THE FORMATIVE YEARS, 1813-1853
CHAPTER I ORIGINS OF THE THREE PARENT COMPANIES 1813-1825 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
CHAPTER II OPERATING AS A COTTON-MILL DEPARTMENT WALTHAM, 1814-1825 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
CHAPTER III THE SHOP THAT BUILT A CITY Proprietors of the Locks and Canals on Merrimack River — Lowell, Massachusetts, 1823-1845 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
CHAPTER IV BIRTH OF TWO INDUSTRIES AT SACO AND BIDDEFORD, 1825-1850 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
CHAPTER V OTIS PETTEE AND THE END OF THE FORMATIVE PERIOD Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
PART TWO THE ADVENTUROUS MIDDLE YEARS
CHAPTER VI SPECIALIZATION IN AN EXPANDING MARKET The Lowell Machine Shop, 1845-1879 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
CHAPTER VII THE GREAT YEARS OF THE “BIG SHOP” The Lowell Machine Shop, 1880-1897 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
CHAPTER VIII THE YEARS OF DECLINE The Lowell Machine Shop, 1897-1905 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
CHAPTER IX STATE STREET TAKES A HAND The Lowell Machine Shop, 1905-1912 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	302
CHAPTER Χ RENAISSANCE OF THE NEWTON SHOP 1853-1897 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
CHAPTER XI RESURGENCE AND DECLINE OF THE BIDDEFORD SHOP, 1850-1897 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363
CHAPTER XII COMBINED OPERATIONS: THE SACO AND PETTEE MACHINE SHOPS, 1897-1912 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	404
PART III THE SACO-LOWELL SHOPS 1912-1949
CHAPTER XIII THE HERRICK ERA 1912-1926 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	457
CHAPTER XIV THE HARD CLIMB BACK 1926-1941 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	521
CHAPTER XV WAR, POSTWAR, AND RETROSPECT Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	573
APPENDICES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	629
NOTES AND REFERENCES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	735
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	809

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Copyright year: 1950
Edition: Reprint 2014
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Front matter: 36
- Main content: 835
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 67
- Tables: 43
- Other: 1 Frontispiz
Keywords: Textile machinery -- New England.; Saco-Lowell Shops.

eBook

Published: October 1, 2013
ISBN: 9780674281707

Hardcover

Published: February 5, 1950
ISBN: 9780674281080