Two examples of bank notes with textile-related motifs and designs demonstrate the economic power of the industry in areas such as Manchester, New Hampshire, which owed much of its wealth to textile manufacturing.
On loan from the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Early Mills Along the River. As with the "Miles of Mills" Merrimack River photo on the reverse, this image shows the early growth of industries along the waterways of New England. Soon the rural character of the area would disappear completely.
On loan from the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
The Pacific Mills Print Works, located in Lawrence, Massachusetts, manufactured printed cotton fabrics. The image shows the scale of the printing machinery that dwarfs the human workers. It also demonstrates the different gender roles within the mills. Here you see mainly male workers, as compared to the weaving and spinning rooms, whose workers would have been predominantly female.
