The Saco-Lowell Shops : Textile Machinery Building in New England, 1813-1949 / George Sweet Gibb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gibb, George Sweet, author.

Series:

Harvard studies in business history ; XVI.

Harvard Studies in Business History ; 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Saco-Lowell Shops.

Textile machinery--New England.

Textile machinery.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (931 pages) : illustrations, portrait.

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

APPENDICES

ILLUSTRATIONS

TABLES

CHARTS

EDITORS' INTRODUCTION

AUTHOR'S PREFACE

PART ONE THE FORMATIVE YEARS, 1813-1853

CHAPTER I ORIGINS OF THE THREE PARENT COMPANIES 1813-1825

CHAPTER II OPERATING AS A COTTON-MILL DEPARTMENT WALTHAM, 1814-1825

CHAPTER III THE SHOP THAT BUILT A CITY Proprietors of the Locks and Canals on Merrimack River - Lowell, Massachusetts, 1823-1845

CHAPTER IV BIRTH OF TWO INDUSTRIES AT SACO AND BIDDEFORD, 1825-1850

CHAPTER V OTIS PETTEE AND THE END OF THE FORMATIVE PERIOD

PART TWO THE ADVENTUROUS MIDDLE YEARS

CHAPTER VI SPECIALIZATION IN AN EXPANDING MARKET

CHAPTER VII THE GREAT YEARS OF THE "BIG SHOP"

CHAPTER VIII THE YEARS OF DECLINE

CHAPTER IX STATE STREET TAKES A HAND

CHAPTER Χ RENAISSANCE OF THE NEWTON SHOP 1853-1897

CHAPTER XI RESURGENCE AND DECLINE OF THE BIDDEFORD SHOP, 1850-1897

CHAPTER XII COMBINED OPERATIONS: THE SACO AND PETTEE MACHINE SHOPS, 1897-1912

PART III THE SACO-LOWELL SHOPS 1912-1949

CHAPTER XIII THE HERRICK ERA 1912-1926

CHAPTER XIV THE HARD CLIMB BACK 1926-1941

CHAPTER XV WAR, POSTWAR, AND RETROSPECT

NOTES AND REFERENCES

INDEX

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-28170-5

OCLC:

1013938081