Hillsborough Woolen Mill, Hillsborough, New Hampshire

Description:

Hillsborough Woolen Mill, Hillsborough, New Hampshire. This daguerreotype is one of the earliest to capture an image of a textile mill. The photograph allows a glimpse of the bucolic nature of the U.S. at the start of the Industrial Revolution. On loan from the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives

Attribution:

Unknown photographer

Date:

ca. 1850

Exhibit Tags:

Industrialization

Copyright:

This item is presumed to be in the public domain by virtue of creation date.