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Lowell History Resources

This Lowell History Bibliography represents a combination of UMass Lowell holdings along with those of other institutions.

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  • Almy family.  Papers, 1649-1984, 1832-1984 (bulk). Baker, Harvard University.
  • American Association of University Women. Massachusetts State Division. Records, 1930-1976.  Schlesinger, Harvard University.
  • American Folklife Center, Library of Congress: Lowell Folklife Project. Taped Interviews and Records, 1987.  Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Amoskeag Manufacturing Company. Records, 1831-1936. Baker, Harvard University.
  • An Address on the Occasion of Dedicating the Monument to Ladd and Whitney by John A. Andrew, Library of Congress.
  • Appleton (William) and Company. Records, 1840-1889.  Baker, Harvard University.
  • Appleton Company.  Records, 1826.  Lowell Historical Society at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Appleton Company.  Record.  American Museum of Textile History.
  • Arms, Eleanor Maria, 1864-1937.  Correspondence, Diaries, and Papers.
  • Ayer, James Hazen Brickett, 1788-1864.  Correspondence, 1823.  Lowell Historical Society at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Bailey, Levi, 1766-1850.  Account book, 1831-1843.  Baker, Harvard University.
  • Baldwin Family.  Business papers, 1724-1880, 1787-1865 (bulk).  Baker, Harvard University.
  • Bancroft, Jefferson.  Personal Papers and Business Records.  Lowell Museum at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Bancroft, Jefferson.  Sheriff Records, Northern Middlesex County.  Lowell Museum at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Bancroft Family.  Papers.  Lowell Museum a Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Batchelder, Samuel.  Scrapbook.  Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Company.  Records, 1828-1953.  Baker, Harvard University.
  • Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950.  Papers in the Woman's Rights Collection, 1885-1950.  Schlesinger, Harvard University.
  • Bockes, Reverand Leslie.  Photographs and Papers Church of All Nations.  Lowell Historical Society at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Boott Cotton Mills.  Records, 1836-1954.  Lowell Museum at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Boott Cotton Mills.  Records, 1836-1954.  Baker, Harvard University. 
  • Boston and Lowell Railroad.  Records, 1836-1878.  Lowell Historical Society at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell. 
  • Boston and Maine Railroad.  Engineering Drawings and Records, 1890-1950.   Boston and Maine Railroad Historical Society at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Boston Manufacturing Company.  Records, 1813-1930.  Baker, Harvard University. 
  • Boyden, Uriah Atherton, 1804-1879.  Scrapbook: 1826-1862.  Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Brownell, George, 1793-1872.  Journal on a Voyage to England, 1839.  Lowell Historical Society at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Burnham, Miss.  Diary, 1833.  Schlesinger, Harvard University.
  • Butler, Benjamin Franklin, 1818-1893, Cartoons 1860s-1880s.  Lowell Historical Society at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Camara. Portuguese Photographs, 1905-1920.  Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Case, Dow.  Photographs and Papers, 1930-1960.  Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Case, Eliphalet and Luella J. B. Case.  Records, 1830-1860.  Lowell Historical Society at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Cemeteries (Lowell).  Gravestone Rubbings, 1820-1860.  Lowell Historical Society at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Central Bridge.  Records, 1825-1844.  Lowell Historical Society at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Cocheco Manufacturing Company.  Records, 1821-1879.  Baker, Harvard University.
  • Coggeshall, John Ingersoll.  Photographs, 1857-1912.  Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Commodore Ballroom.  Photographs, Sheet Music, and Business Records, 1940s-1950s.  Lowell Historical Society at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Corliss Family.  Papers, 1833-1866, 1846-1857 (bulk).  Lowell Historical Society at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Corporation of Members of Catholic Association.  Papers and Records, 1891-1993.  Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell. 
  • Cutter, Coroline, 1813-.  Journal.  Lowell Historical Society at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Davis, Katherine Kenicott.  Professional papers and library, 1892-1980.  Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Dublin, Thomas, 1946-.  Women at work [computer file]  Baker, Harvard University.
  • Edson, Theodore,.   Diaries, 1824-1841.  Lowell Historical Society at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts.
  • Elliott.  Diary, 1861-1863.  Lowell Historical Society at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Fall River Iron Works Company.  Records, 1821-1909.  Baker, Harvard University.
  • Father John's Medicine Company.  Records, 1830-1980.  Lowell Museum at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Faulkner and Colony Manufacturing Company.  Records, 1815-1948.  Baker, Harvard University.
  • Faulkner, Martha A. Merriam -1905.  Diaries, 1864-1905.  Lowell Historical Society at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Fire Department.  Records, 1828-1840.  Lowell Historical Society at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Flather, John Rogers.  Personal and Business Papers.  Lowell Museum at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Foley, Elizabeth.  Photographs and Diaries, 1950-1970.  Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Ford Family (Rebecca Ford, Caroline Ford, and Sally K. Ford).    Correspondence, 1838 1899.  Middlebury College.
  • Francis, James B.  Records.  Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Gilman Family.  Papers.  Lowell Historical Society at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Glidden, Charles Jasper, 1857-1927.   Photographs, 1902-1907.  Lowell Historical Society at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Gray, Finley.  Railroad Photographs, 1890-1930.  Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Greenleaf and Hubbard.  Records, 1850-1860.  Baker, Harvard University.
  • Gordon, Nathaniel Batchelder, 1791-.  Business papers, 1813-1846.  Baker, Harvard University.
  • Grace Universalist Church.  Records, 1895-1896.  Lowell Historical Society at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Great Falls Manufacturing Company.  Records, 1823-1933.  Baker, Harvard University.
  • Hamilton Manufacturing Company.  Records, 1825-1917.  Baker, Harvard University.
  • Hamilton Woolen Company.  Records, 1822-1936.  Baker, Harvard University.
  • Harvard College Observatory.  Records of Director, Joseph Winlock, 1866-1875.  Baker, Harvard University.
  • Healey.  Correspondence.  Lowell Historical Society at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Harriet Hildreth Heard 1856-1936 by Dunn, Harriet Hildreth Heard, 1856-1936
  • Human Services Corporations.  Papers, 1970-1995.  Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Hurd Family.  Business records, 1754-1898.  Baker, Harvard University.
  • Hurd Mills.  Business records, 1826-.  Lowell Historical Society at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Ipswich Mills records, 1832-1929, 1868-1929 (bulk). Baker Library, Harvard University.
  • Knapp, Chauncey. Scrapbook. Lowell Historical Society at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Larcom, Lucy, 1824-1893. Letters, 1877, 1882. Schlesinger, Harvard University.
  • Lawrence Manufacturing Company. Records, 1831-1955, 1831-1926 (bulk). Baker, Harvard University. 
  • Lord, William, 1799-1873. Business records, 1799-1869, 1822-1869 (bulk). Baker, Harvard University.
  • Lowell, Engineer's Office. Photographs, 1910-1938. Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Lowell, Expenses. Broadsides, 1833-1835. Lowell Historical Society at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Lowell, Handicapped Affairs Commission. Papers. Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Lowell, High School. Broadsides, 1839-1869. Lowell Historical Society at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Lowell, School: Middlesex Village. Attendance and Business Records. Lowell Historical Society at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Lowell, Water Board Commission. Records, 1870-1945. Lowell Museum at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts.
  • Lowell Bleachery. Records. Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Lowell Central Labor Council. Business Records, 1899-1978. Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Lowell Corporation Hospital. Records, 1844-1888. Saints Memorial Hospital at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Lowell Ethnic Covenant.  Papers, 1984-1995. Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Lowell Horticultural Society. Papers. Lowell Historical Society at Center for Lowell History, University of Massaxhusetts Lowell.
  • Lowell Institute for Savings. Business Records, 1829-1930s. Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts.
  • Lowell Machine Shop records, 1845-1912. Baker Library, Harvard University.
  • Lowell Museum, 1851-. Promptbooks for productions of Shakespeare's As You Like It, ca 1794-1970.  Baker, Harvard University.
  • Lowell Museum 1851-. Broadsides and Programs, 1851. Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Lutz, Alma, 1890-1973, collector. Collection of documents by and about abolitionists and women's rights activists, Part 2 (Liv-W), 1775-1943. Schlesinger, Harvard University.
  • Lyman Mills. Records, 1833-1936, 1854-1927 (bulk). Baker Library, Harvard University.
  • Manning (Warren H.) and Company. Photographs and Business Records, 1860-1938. Manning Family Association at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Manning Family. Photographs and Papers, 1600-1930s. Manning Family Association at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Marshall, Andrew, Mrs. Papers, 1871-1884. Schlesinger, Harvard University.
  • Mason, W.P. Transfers of shares, 1824-1834. Baker, Harvard University.
  • Massachusetts Mills. Architectural and Engineering Drawings, 1900. Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Mauger and Avery.  Records, 1873-1922. Baker, Harvard University.
  • Merrill, Joshua.  Journal, 1826-. Lowell Historical Society at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Merrimack Manufacturing Company.  Records, 1821-1957.  Baker, Harvard University.
  • Merrimack Manufacturing Company. Records, 1826. Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Merrimack Valley Health Council. Taped Interviews and Records, 1977. Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Metherall, Ann. Photographs, 1890s-1920s. Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Middlesex Canal Company. Records, 1793-1853. Middlesex Canal Association at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Middlesex Company. Record. Lowell Historical Society at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Middlesex Mechanics Association. Records. Lowell Historical Society at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Mill Workers of Lowell, Oral History Project. Tapes Interviews, 1985. Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Morse, Kendall, 1932-1945. Papers, 1932-1945. Lowell Historical Society at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Morse, Marion. Papers. Lowell Historical Society at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Nashua and Lowell Railroad Corporation. Records, 1835-1916. Baker, Harvard University.
  • Nashua Manufacturing Company. Records, 1824-1932. Baker, Harvard University.
  • Neal, D.A. (David Augustus), 1793-1861. Business records, 1818-1898. Baker, Harvard University.
  • Nichols, J. Howard, 1838-1905. Papers, 1856-1905. Baker, Harvard University.
  • Northeast Textile Companies. Business records of various New England and New York textile firms, 1710-1938. Baker, Harvard University.
  • Noyes, Major. Papers. Lowell Historical Society, Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • O'Dwyer, George Francis, 1877-. Papers, 1916 1927. Boston College.
  • Page, Emma. Correspondence, 1866-1878 (copy). Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Parkhill Manufacturing Company. Records, 1879-1928. Baker, Harvard University.
  • Parton, James, 1822-1891. Papers, 1835-1966. Houghton, Harvard University.
  • Pepperell Manufacturing Company. Records, 1741-1932, 1839-1928 (bulk). Baker, Harvard University.
  • Plympton Cotton Manufacturing Company. Records, 1813-1841. Baker, Harvard University.
  • Pontoosuc Woolen Manufacturing Company. Records, 1835-1924, 1855-1904 (bulk). Baker, Harvard University.
  • Proprietors of the Locks and Canals on Merrimack River. Records, 1792-1947, 1825-1900 (bulk). Baker, Harvard University.
  • Proprietors of the Locks and Canals on Merrimack River. Records, 1836-1843, 1900-1904. Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Proprietors of the Locks and Canals on Merrimack River. Photographs, Architectural and Engineering Drawings,  1825-1947. Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Reade, Phillip Diaries and Papers. Lowell Historical Society at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts.
  • Riddick, Raymond, Sr. Photographs, Papers, 1930-1965. Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson, 1825-1911. Papers of Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson and Harriette Lucy Robinson Shattuck, 1833-1937. Schlesinger, Harvard University.
  • Rogers, Edith Nourse, 1881-1960. Papers, 1854-1961, 1881-1961 (bulk). Schlesinger, Harvard University.
  • Rogers Hall School for Girls. Photographs and Records -1975. Lowell Historical Society at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Russell, George. Photographs, 1916-1943. Lowell Historical Society at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Saco-Lowell Shops. Records, 1855-1960. Baker, Harvard University.
  • Safford, Arthur T., 1867-1951. Business papers, 1903-1942. Baker, Harvard University.
  • Severance, H.A., of Leyden, Massachusetts. Diary, 1862-1866. Schlesinger, Harvard University.
  • Shifting Gears, Oral History Project. Taped Interviews and Papers, 1986. Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Slater family. Business records, 1793-1926. Baker Library, Harvard University.
  • Smith-Baker Journals. Lowell Historical Society at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Southeast Asian, Oral History Project. Taped Interviews, 1986. Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Salem & Boston Stage Company records, 1819-1839. Harvard University.
  • Suffrage (anonymous). Papers, 1700-1913.  Schlesinger, Harvard University.
  • Suncook Mills records, 1864-1954. Baker, Harvard University.
  • Symmes, Edward.  The diary, or Yeoman's calendar, manufacturer's almanack, and Lowell register.  For 1837, 1838.  Lowell, [1836-37].
  • Swain, George F., 1857-1931. Papers, 1883-1926, 1900-1926 (bulk). Baker Library, Harvard University.
  • Tremont and Suffolk Mills.  Architectural and Engineering Drawings, 1889-1932. Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Tremont and Suffolk Mills. Records, 1831-1936. Baker Library, Harvard University.
  • Tsongas, Paul E. Congressional Papers, 1974-1993. Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • University of Massachusetts Lowell Archives (State Normal School, Lowell State Teachers College, Lowell Textile School, Lowell Technological Institute).  Tape Interviews, Photographs, and Records, 1890s-1997.  Center for Lowell History.  
  • University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Varney, Edward Stuart journals, 1892-1898. Lowell Historical Society at Center for Lowell History. University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Varnum, John Marshall, A sketch of the life and public services of Joseph Bradley Varnum of Massachusetts. Book 1906 Boston, David Clapp & Son, 1906. UMass Lowell Libraries, Center for Lowell History CS 71 .V322 1906
  • Wendel Family Business records, 1722-1865. Baker Library, Harvard University.
  • Western Americana manuscripts at Houghton Library, 1805-1923. Harvard University.
  • Whitaker, Channing. Personal Papers and Business Records.  
  • Lowell Museum at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Whitaker, Channing. Lowell Machine Shop Records.  
  • Lowell Museum at Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • Whitin Machine Works records, 1843-1933. Baker Library, Harvard University.
  • Winthrop Mills records, 1865-1935. Baker Library Harvard University.
  • Working People of Lowell, Oral History Project. Taped Interviews, 1984.  
  • Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
  • World War II, Oral History Project by Marc Miller. Taped Interviews, 1975.  
  • Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
 
  • A Guide to CLH Newspaper Collections and Digital Resources
  • ADVERTISER March 1837-December 1862 (some gaps)
  • THE ALBUM or LADIES’ COMMONPLACE BOOK November 1832-1833
  • AMERICAN (TRI-WEEKLY) May 1849-December 1853
  • AMERICAN CITIZEN August 1854-June 1862 (some gaps) 
  • AMERICAN WESLEYAN OBSERVER January 1840-August 1840
  • ARENA  (SUNDAY) June 1891-March 1893
  • THE ATHENAEUM 1851
  • THE AWL – (Lynn, MA) July 1844-November 1845 
  • BOSTON DAILY EVENING VOICE 1864-1868
  • BOSTON GLOBE March 1872-December 1891
  • CAMBODIAN BROADCASTER April 1988-March 1989
  • CASKET (LOWELL) September 1837-March 1838 (some gaps)
  • CENTRAVILLE  May 1916-November 1916
  • CHELMSFORD COURIER August 1824-June 1825 (some gaps)
  • CHELMSFORD PHOENIX September 1825-February 1826 (some gaps)
  • CHRISTAIN FREEMAN FAMILY VISITER January 17, 1851
  • CHRONICLE (MORNING) January 1845-September 1845
  • CITIZEN     1850-February 1906
  • CITIZEN LEADER April 1941-May 1941
  • CITY DIRECTORIES 
  •  MAINE 
    •   Bangor 1834-1859 
    •   Biddford 1856-1857 
    •   Portland 1823-1860 
    •   Saco 1849
  •  MASSACHUSETTS 
    •   Fall River 1853-1859 
    •   Haverhill 1853-1861 
    •   Lawrence 1847-1861 
    •   Lowell, MA 1832-1990 
    •   Lynn 1832-1860
  •  NEW HAMPSHIRE 1849 
    •   Concord 1830-1861 
    •   Dover 1830-1859 
    •   Great Falls 1842-1858 
    •   Keene 1827-1831 
    •   Manchester 1844-1860 
    •   Nashua 1841-1858 
    •   Peterborough 1830 
    •   Portsmouth 1817-1861
  • CITY TELEPHONE DIRECTORIES 
    •   National 1882 
    •   Lawrence, MA 1925 
    •   Lowell, MA 1932-2000 (many gaps)
  • COMMUNICATOR March 1972-May 1975
  • CONCORD FREEMAN September 1840
  • CONCORD GAZETTE & MIDDLESEX YOEMAN January 1824-July 1824  
  • (some gaps)
  • COMPEND (LOWELL WEEKLY) May 1832-February 1833
  • COURIER (LOWELL) July 1835-February 1906 (some gaps)
  • COURIER-CITIZEN March 1906-March 1941
  • CRITIC (SUNDAY) September 1887-September 1891
  • THE DAY STAR March 1850
  • DEMOCRAT (EVENING) February 1885-May 1886
  • L'ETOILE September 1886-August 1957
  • EVANGELIST (LOWELL) April 1831-November 1832 (some gaps)
  • THE EXPERIMENT February 1832-April 1833
  • FREE PRESS (SATURDAY) September 1904-January 1906
  • FREE PRESS (LOWELL) August 1937-May 1941 
  • THE GAD-FLY July 1860
  • GAZETTE (LOWELL) September 1847
  • GAZETTE (THE LOWELL) April 1861
  • HERALD (THE MORNING) November 1853-March 1853 (some gaps)
  • INDEPENDENT CHRONICLE &  February 1781-October 1815 (some gaps) 
  •  THE UNIVERSAL ADVERTISER
  • L'INDEPENDENCE April 4-September 1890
  • LE JOURNAL April 1916-June 1916
  • LE JOURNAL 1980-1996
  • JOURNAL (LOWELL) March 1827-November 1866 (some gaps)
  • THE LADIES’ LITERARY FRIEND May 1825
  • LADIES PEARL June 1840-1843 (some gaps)
  • LEADER (EVENING) May 1921-March 1941
  • LIBERATOR (BOSTON) 1831-1861
  • LIBERATOR (LOWELL) August 1962-December 1963
  • LIFE IN LOWELL December 1843
  • LITERARY REPOSITORY December 1840
  • MAGNOLIA or FRIENDSHIP’S GIFT 1847
  • MAIL (MORNING) July 1879-May 1908
  • MERCURY (& LOWELL JOURNAL) 1830-December 1835 (some gaps)
  • MERCURY GAZETTE (LOWELL) November 1829-August 1830
  • MERRIMACK JOURNAL March 1826-January 1827 (some gaps)
  • THE MESSENGER June 1836
  • MIDDLESEX GAZETTE August 1820-March 1822 (some gaps)
  • MIDDLESEX STANDARD July 1844-March 1845
  • MIDDLESEX TELEGRAPH July 1845
  • THE MIDDLESEX WORKER July 1867
  • MIRROR (THE LOWELL) June 1852-August 1852 (some gaps)
  • NEW ENGLAND CHRISTIAN January-March 1841 
  • NEW ENGLAND GREEK MESSENGER March 1915-March 1919
  • NEW MOON November 1881-1885 (some gaps)
  • NEWS (SUNDAY) November 1916-May 1920
  • OFFERING (LOWELL) April 1840-1845
  • OFFERING (NEW ENGLAND) April 1848-March 1850
  • OBSERVER (LOWELL) January 1832-October 1833 (some gaps)
  • OLD LADIES PIECE BAG 1867-1899 (some gaps)
  • THE OPERATIVE December 1844-February 1845 (some gaps)
  • THE OPERATIVES MAGAZINE April 1841-August 1842
  • OPTIC (LOWELL) May 1961-August 1961 (some gaps)
  • OUR HOME November 1878-December 1894
  • PALMER’S ILLUSTRATED LIFE IN LOWELL July 1849-August 1850
  • PATRIOT (LOWELL) November 1834-August 1845
  • PATRIOT & REPUBLICAN (LOWELL) November 1846-August 1849  
  • (some gaps)
  • PHILANTHROPIST (LOWELL) September 1835 (some gaps)
  • PRESS (SUNDAY) October 1895-October 1899
  • REFORMER September 1872
  • REPUBLICAN (LOWELL) July 1845
  • REPUBLIQUE March 1901-June 1902
  • REVUE DE LOWELL August 1902-January 1904
  • ROSEBUD March 1832-August 1833
  • RUTLAND HERALD March 1812-October 1812 (some gaps)
  • SABBATH SCHOOL MESSENGER April 1842-April 1843
  • SATYROS February 1914-April 1940 (some gaps)
  • SENTINEL (THE LOWELL) April 1861
  • THE SCOURGE September 1846
  • THE SPINDLE CITY September 1851-March 1852 (some gaps) 
  • EVENING STAR March 1890-December 1895
  • STAR (THE LOWELL) August 1870
  • STAR OF BETHLEHEM January 1841-May 1846 (some gaps)
  • THE STATE September 1885-January 1886 (some gaps)
  • SUN (LOWELL) August 1881 - May 2002
  • LE SUPPLEMENT March 1913-March 1916
  • TELEGRAM (LOWELL DAILY) October 1907-December 1907
  • TELEGRAM (LOWELL SUNDAY) April 1899-September 1952 
  • THE TIMES September 1833-December 1833 (some gaps)
  • TIMES (LOWELL MORNING) July 1875-December 1896 (some gaps)
  • TIMES (LOWELL WEEKLY) January 1880-December 1887
  • TRUE WHIG (THE LOWELL) October 1855
  • TRUMPET (THE LOWELL) April 1857-May 1857 (some gaps)
  • TRUMPET & UNIVERSALIST MAGAZINE  June 1842-December 1842
  • UNION (WEEKLY) April 1858
  • L'UNION May 1889-March 1890
  • UNIVERSALIST MAGAZINE 1832 
    •  April 1842-June 1842 (some gaps)
  • LA VERITE August 1910-November 1910
  • VOICE OF INDUSTRY May 1845-April 1848 (some gaps)
  • VOX POPULI January 1842-1890 (some gaps) 
  • VOX POPULI (SATURDAY) March 1869-December 1889 (some gaps)
  • WORCESTER COUNTY GAZETTE & MIDDLESEX March 1845-July 1845 (some gaps) 
  • YOEMAN’S GAZETTE April 1827-January 1828 (some gaps)
  • ZION BANNER July 1840-March 1842 (some gaps)
  • LOWELL: ATLASES AND MAPS
    • Atlases show lots, buildings and property owners and are available for 1879, 1882, 1892, 1896, 1906 1936, 1977.  There are additional Lowell Maps showing some buildings, wards, and streets for 1829, 1832, 1845, 1850, 1866, 1878, 1888.
  • LOWELL: CIVIL WAR VETERANS RECORDS 1880-1900
    • The Vetrerans Affairs Office at City Hall provides financial support to American Veterans.  Indexes are available of the surviving records for Lowell's Civil War Veterans.
  • LOWELL: DIRECTORIES
    • Lowell Directories are available from 1832 to 1990.  They include:  Resident Directory arranged by name, listing work address, occupation, and home address; Business Directory arrange by product; and Advertisements.  After 1881, dates of death are noted.  Beginning in 1883, most directories contain a ward and street map.  Beginning in 1917, wives names are listed and there is a section arranged by street address.
  • LOWELL: TELEPHONE DIRECTORIES
    • Lowell Telephone Directories are available from 1932-1997.
  • LOWELL: VITAL RECORDS AFTER 1900
    • As part of a effort to document Lowell's History, a small but determined group of volunteers is indexing vital records from local newspapers.  Currently available are Obituary Index 1900-1933;  Birth Index 1900-1910.
  • MASSACHUSETTS: MARRIAGE RECORDS
    • The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has microfilmed marriage certificates from 1840-1900 and developed a chronological index.  These records provide basic information on the couple to be married, including the names of both sets of parents.
  • MASSACHUSETTS: POPULATION CENSUS
    • The Commonwealth of Massachusetts also conducts a Population Census every ten years which began in 1855.  The State Census is available on microfilm for 1855 and 1865.  Additional State Census information after 1865 is available in manuscript form in the State Archives at Boston's Columbia Point.
  • MASSACHUSETTS: VITAL RECORDS UP TO 1850
    • Available for many towns and cities including Lowell, these volumes contains Birth, Marriage and Death Records compiled from local records, cemetery records and church records, arranged alphabetically.
  • MASSACHUSETTS: WORLD WAR I DRAFT CARDS
    • Young men at the age of 18 were required to register for the United States Selective Service from 1917-1919.  These records are arranged by Local Draft Board # (3 in Lowell) and then alphabetically by name.  Information includes age, eye color, hair color, service, and nearest relative.
  • NEW ENGLAND: CITY DIRECTORIES
    • City Directories of major textile cities and towns in Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts are available on microfiche.
  • US: POPULATION CENSUS MANUSCRIPT
    • The Lowell Historical Society at Center for Lowell History has purchased the US Population Census Manuscript on microfilm for Middlesex and Essex Counties 1790-1920 (1890 was destroyed).  Only Heads of Households are listed in the Census from 1790-1840.  Beginning in 1850 each member of the household is listed in the Census.
  • US: POPULATION CENSUS PERSONAL NAME INDEX
    • There are published name indexes for 1800, 1810, 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850, with reference to county, town or city, and microfilm page number.  The 1860 name index is on CD (see Martha Mayo).  The Center produced a name index for the small portion of the 1890 Census that survives.
  • US: POPULATION CENSUS STREET NAME INDEX
    • Street Guides for the 1880, 1900, 1910, and 1920 US Census, are arranged alphabetically by street name with reference to Enumeration District # and microfilm page number.  Used in conjunction with the Lowell City Directories, these Street Guides quickly limit a Census search.
  • US: SOCIAL SECURITY DEATH BENEFITS RECORDS
    • President Franklin Roosevelt established the US Social Security Office in 1937.  These records list those who have died and provided Social Security Benefits from 1937 through December 1993.  They are arranged alphabetically by name, with reference to Social security #, date of birth, date of death, and state.

 

  • Albert, Peter.  "Lowell's Feelings on the Question of the Blackman: 1860-1863"
  • Allen, Stephen.  "The Life of the Tramp in Lowell During the Depression Years of 1893-1895"
  • Anderson, Elizabeth C.  "Weaving Cloth, Spinning Stories: Lucy Larcom"
  • Bahr, Betsy.  "Nineteenth Century Textile Mill Design and the Factory Workplace"
  • Baskin, David.  "The Jews in Lowell, 1905-1918"
  • Bassnett, John W.  "Recruiting and Conscription in the City of Lowell During the American Civil War 1861-1865"
  • Beati, Audrey.  "An Interview with Rose"
  • Blewett, Mary H.  "State Funded Industrial Policy and Corporate Decision Making"
  • Blewett, Mary H.  "Urban Progressivism and Ethnic Politics: The Irish Capture of Lowell, Massachusetts: 1890-1911"
  • Blewett, Mary H.  "The Last Generation of Women Textile Workers in Lowell: Their Work and Their Lives"
  • Blewett, Mary H.  "Mill Workers of Lowell & Working People of Lowell"
  • Borges, Karen.  "The Portuguese Community in Lowell"
  • Boutelis, Dena.  "Drama in Lowell"
  • Brissett, Donna A.  "The African-American Experience in Lowell"
  • Burns, Edward.  "Ethnic Family Paper on Greeks"
  • Campbell, Lindsey Ann.  "The Impact of World War II on the City of Lawrence from December 8, 1941 - August 31, 1942"
  • Chan, Sithra.  "Works and Society"
  • Cheung, Yin L.  "An Analytical Model of the Lowell Canal System"
  • Chutchian, Diana.  "Lowell's Reaction to the Depression"
  • Coffin, Mark T.  "The Lowell Offering, Art Works, and the Lowell Factory Girl: A Manufactured Culture"
  • Cognac, Pauline.  "New England Cotton Textile Interest and the Dream of China Market"
  • Cohen, Gillian Dara.  "Knowledge of How to Combine: The Political Socialization of Southeast Asian Refugees in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1984-1988"
  • Colegrove, Doris.  "Doctor Nathan Allen of Lowell: Nineteenth Century Traditionalist and Social Critic"
  • Corbett, William.  "The Middlesex Canal Through the City of Medford"
  • Dalzell, Robert.  "The Rise of the Waltham-Lowell System and Some Thoughts on the Political Economy of Modernization in Anti-Bellium"
  • DiGiammarino, Doris.  "Lowell Cotton Mills System, 1830-1850:  Utopic in Design--Dehumanizing in Practice"
  • Downey, Jean G. and, Marian C. Harmon.  "Emily Frances Fletcher"
  • Dublin, Thomas.  "Women, Work and the Family: Women Operatives in the Lowell Mills: 1830-1860"
  • Dugan, Robert E.  "Distinguished Visitors to Lowell"
  • Dugan, Robert E.  "Politics on the National Level in Lowell, Massachusetts: 1856-1868"
  • Emanouil, Christine.  "The 1915 Massachusetts Suffrage Reform Lowell and Lawrence"
  • Emmet, Alan S.  "Open Space in Lowell"
  • Farrell, Richard.  "John Jacob Rogers"
  • Flanagan, William T.  "The Emergence of the Irish as a Political Factor in Lowell 1850-1922"
  • Flanders, Sandra.  "Rogers Hall School: 1922-1973"
  • Frazer, Arthur H.  "Early Hydraulic Science And Scientists At Lowell, Massachusetts"
  • Gaulix, Kathy.  "Lowell's Poor and the City Farms: 1880-1903"
  • Gerson, Jeffrey.  "Cambodian Political Succession In Lowell, Massachusetts 1980-1995"
  • Gilardi, Michael.  "Lowell's Reaction to the Depression: 1933=1934"
  • Goldford, Robert.  "The Conception of Home of the New England Operatives in Lowell"
  • Gordan, Cassandra.  "Private Social Service Agencies in Lowell: 1839-1901"
  • Green, Julie.  "Women's Images, Women's Place: Writings of the Early Lowell Mill Girls"
  • Grenier, Michael.  "La Corporation des Membres de L'Association Catholique: A French Canadian Experience in Lowell, Massachusetts"
  • Gross, Laurence F.  "Proposal for A Study of Lowell's Industrialization and Decline" 1994
  • Haller, Charlotte.  "Irish Factory Women: Identity and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts during the 1850s"
  • Hamilton, Clare C.  "The Effects of the Depression Years of 1893 and 1894 on Lowell".
  • Hardy, Dave and Donna Ellis.  "The Irish in America and Today in the Merrimack Valley"
  • Harrington, Ann Marie.  "Rogers Hall: The First Thirty Years"
  • Hassett, Linda.  "Ethnicity and Isolationism in Lowell: 1914-1916"
  • Heffernan, Paul J.  "Lowell, Massachusetts: A City at War: January 1, 1941 - December 31, 1942"
  • Hiedenrick, John.  "The Regions Abolitionist Movement in Lowell 1834-1845"
  • Hill, Charles W.  "Lowell"
  • Hiscoe, DeMerritte Allen.  "History of Lowell State College from 1925-1926"
  • Hogan, Kathleen.  "History of the Library, LTI"
  • Hood, Deborah.  "Conception of Education and the Public School System of Lowell: 1824-1860"
  • Hudon, Paul.  "The Covenant"
  • Hurtin, Anne.  "Theodore Edson and the Early Schools of Lowell, Massachusetts"
  • Hutman, Sharon.  "The Lowell Mill Girl: Was She or Wasn't She?"
  • Jacobs, Stanley.  "Lethargy in Lowell: The Decline of the Textile Industry"
  • Johnson, H.R.  "Benjamin F. Butler"
  • Joy, Randoll S.  "The Jewish Community of Lowell: The Jewish People of America"
  • Kacimarski, Phyllis.  "Family History Project"
  • Karabatsos, Lewis.  "An Interview with Yvonne Hoar: Mill Life in Lowell"
  • Karavos, Patricia A.  "A Biographical Sketch of Kirk Boott to 1826"
  • Kearns, David.  "The 1936 Flood in Lowell, Massachusetts"
  • Koczarski, William T.  "A Study of the Lowell Mills: 1858-1866"
  • Kolack, Shirley.  "A Course in Ethnic Studies"
  • Koniowka, Debra.  "Lowell Day Nursery: 1885-1873"
  • Kowalski, Lydia.  "An Interview with Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Tzankos of the Greek Community"
  • Labreque, Maureen.  "The Boston and Lowell Railroad"
  • Lafferty, Tom.  "The Lowell Mill Girls"
  • Lane, Eric.  "The Seal of the City, Lowell, Massachusetts"
  • Leczynski, Jane.  "The Polish Community of Lowell, Massachusetts: A Study in Assimilation and Mobility in the Early Twentieth Century"
  • Lemire (VISTA Volunteer), Germaine B.  "An Interview with John Sullivan"
  • Leney, Julie M.  "Lowell as a Laboratory: An experiment in Public Housing"
  • Levy, Herbert M.W.  "Changes thru Structure: The New England Industrial Building: 1787-1873"
  • Ley, Sann.  "Southeastern Asian Refugees in Lowell"
  • Liakos, Joyce.  "Development of Lowell's Public Schools"
  • Lutz, Marilyn.  "Twilight Memories"
  • Marcouillier, Ronald A.  "The Economical Effect of the Civil War on Lowell, Massachusetts"
  • Marston, Stella A.  "Adopted citizens:  discourse and the production of meaning among nineteenth centruy American urban immigrants"
  • Matyka, Carol.  "The Irish and the Politics of Liquor Licenses, Lowell 1905-1909"
  • McCaffrey, Michael T.  "Lowell, Massachusetts: A City at War: January 1, 1941 - December 31, 1942"
  • McCartin, Marian.  "The Development of the North Commons Housing Project in Lowell 1937-1941"
  • McDonnell, Richard R.  "Lowell and the Volstead Act: 1919-1921"
  • McGowan, James.  "A Practicum in History"
  • McHugh, Brian.  "Treatment of Children in Lowell: City and Institutional Care: 1890-1914"
  • McKenna, James W. IV, Maurice L. Ouelette, and, and Lenore R. Ouelette.  "The History of the McKenna-Ouelette Funeral Homes"
  • McKenney, Kristin T.  "Women Students at LTI"
  • McPartland, Marie E.  "The Young Women's Christian Association and the Women of Lowell: 1891-1946"
  • Megowen, Margaret.  "The Old Middlesex Canal"
  • Melancon, Donald.  "The Transfer of Power from Edith Nourse Rogers to F. Bradford Morse in the Fifth Congressional District of Massachusetts: 1950-1964"
  • Melia, Nancy O.  "Proprietors of Locks & Canal"
  • Montiminy, Renee.  "The Story of A Mill Girl"
  • Morin, Rachel.  "The Flood of 1936 (Lowell)"
  • Morin, Rachel A., Kathleen M. McCarthy, and Eileen M. McCarthy.  "The Mill Girls of Lowell: Or Lights and Shadows of Factory Life (A reconstruction of the original play)"
  • Moynihan, Patricia.  "A Collective Biography of Irish Catholics in Lowell"
  • Mulligan, Mary T.  "The 1912 Textile Strike in Lowell"
  • Mulligan, Mary T.  "Epilogue to Lawrence: The 1912 Textile Strike in Lowell, Massachusetts"
  • Mulvey, Ann.  "Perception of Safety and Qualities of Lives:  Women and Men in Lowell, 1982-1994"
  • Murphy, Garry P.  "Social Mobility Among the Greeks in Lowell"
  • Murphy, Garry P.  "Eliades, George: The First Greek American Mayor of Lowell"
  • Mynder, Devon.  "Mill Health"
  • Nyder, Barbara Ann.  "Lowell Women in the Civil War"
  • Nyder, Dale E.  "Assimilation of the Greek Community in Lowell: 1891-1920, Case Study".
  • O'Donnell, Brian.  "The Spindle Stop and Manchester, NH; Respond to the Collapse of the New England Textile Industry"
  • Orrick, William.  "Progress, Retrenchment, Stagnation: Lowell Municipal Administration and Politics: 1883-1890"
  • Parrott, Charles.  "Greening The Early Industrial City: Lowell's Merrimack Canal Parkway" 1995
  • Patel, Vinod.  "Temple: A Symbol of Indian Heritage"
  • Pedone, Martha.  "The Founding of Rogers Hall of Lowell in 1892: A Study in Secondary and Higher Education for Women"
  • Pelland, Paul.  "Depression Politics in Lowell: The Elections of 1894 and 1896"
  • Peters, Bradly.  "The Rebirth of a Mill Yard"
  • Pinard, Andrew.  "The Boston and Maine Railroad From 1915 to 1945"
  • Polizotti, Carol.  "Urban Development"
  • Proctor, Thomas.  "Middlesex Canal"
  • Quinn, Kathleen.  "The Lowell Factory System and its Female Operatives from 1830 to 1850".
  • Ramirez, Peter.  "Growth and Development of Athletics at L.T.I."
  • Redmount, Esther.  "Cyclical Patterns in School Attrition and Attendence:  A study in the Labor Market Behavior of Children"
  • Richards, Peter.  "Characteristics of Irish Immigrants in North America Derived from the Boston Pilot "Missing Friends, 1831-1850"
  • Riley, Eileen Mary.  "Some Major Events in the History of Notre Dame Academy, Lowell, Massachusetts: 1852-1980"
  • Roacha, Edward.  "The Lowell Shoe Strike 1933"
  • Roake, Eileen.  "The General Textile Strike of 1934 in Lowell"
  • Robinson, Suzanne.  "Music in Lowell"
  • Roux, Mary Ann P.  "Little Canada"
  • Ryan, Loretta.  "Afro-Americans in Lowell, Massachusetts"
  • Ryan, Loretta.  "The Remaking of Lowell and its Histories: 1965-1982"
  • Samowski, Edward.  "The Sixth Regiment: A Study on the Creation of an Effective Fighting Unit and its Activities During the Opening Days of the Civil War"
  • Sande, Theodore.  "The Architecture of the Cotton Textile Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts: 1822-1860"
  • Scollar, Edward J.  "The 1918 Cotton Textile Strike in Lowell, Massachusetts"
  • Shanahan, Kevin.  "Study of the Abbott Worsted Mills of Westford, Massachusetts"
  • Shanahan, Mark A.  "Lowell Paternalism or Tyranny"
  • Sherman, J.  "Labor in Lowell in the Post-Depression Years: 1891-1893"
  • Smith, Jeffrey.  "Play Ball"
  • Staples, Ellen.  "Chronology on Lowell Newspapers"
  • Stevens, James.  "A History of Grammar Schools in Lowell"
  • Studley, Thomas.  "The Effects of the Korean War on Lowell, Massachusetts, June 1950-July 1951"
  • Terruso, James.  "The Trolleys of Lowell: 1863-1935"
  • Themeles, Thomas.  "Wage Cuts and Strikes: The Dilemma of the Textile Workers of Lowell in the Depression of the 1890's"
  • Therrien, Jennifer.  "An Irish Perspective of Yesteryear"
  • Thibodeau, Stephen and Robert Lussier.  "The French-Canadian Ethnic Group of Lowell"
  • Thomas, Elly.  "Immigrant Life Past and Present"
  • Thomas, John M.  "Band of Sisters"
  • Turner, Stephen.  "Immigrant Experience"
  • Ward, Jane E.  "The Irish in Lowell, Massachusetts: Changes from 1840-1860"
  • Warren, Joseph (Rabbi).  "History of the Lowell Hebrew Community Center and the Temple Beth El (1937-1955)"
  • Wilder, Bonnie Graves.  "The Music of the Early Lowell Mill Girls"
  • Wilder, Bonnie Graves.  "The Lowell Mill Era 1840-1855 (The Mill Girls and Their Music)"
  • Wilkinson, Peter F.  "Judge Samuel Page Hadley of Lowell: The Man and His Career"
  • Wilson, Sharon W.  "Lowell's Reaction to the Depression: 1929-1930"
  • Wirzbicki, Brian.  "History of the Radio Station WLTI/WJUL 1952-1985"
  • Wood, Karen G.  "The Textile Mills of Roswell, Georgia"
  • Zebroski, Shirley.  "The 1903 Strike in Lowell Cotton Mills"
  • Zemgalis, Karl.  "The Influenza Epidemic of 1918"
  • Abbott, Edith.  Women in Industry.  New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1910.  Reprint: Arno Press, 1969.
  • Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell.  Little Eve Egardton.  New York: The Century Company, 1914.
  • _____.  Molly Make-Believe.  New York: The Century Company, 1910.
  • Abbott, Katherine M.  Old Paths and Ledgends of the New England Border.  New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1907.
  • _____.  South Shore Trolley Trips.  Lowell: Katherine M. Abbott, 1898.
  • _____.  Trolley Trips on a Bay State Triangle, for Sixty Sunny Days.  Lowell: Katherine M. Abbott, 1897.
  • _____.  Trolley Trips ; The Historic New England Coast.  Lowell, Katherine M. Abbott, 1899.
  • _____.  Twentieth Century Trolley Trips.  Boston: Charles E. Webster Company, 1901.
  • Abroad in America; Visitors to the New Nation, 1776-1914.  Essays written to accompany the exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.  Reading, MA: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution: Addison-Wesley Publishing Compay, 1976.
  • The Accountant's Assistant in Making Up Payroll; two very useful tables for computing wages, prepared by B.H. Penhallow.  Lowell, 1853.
  • Adams, John G.  Fifty Notable Years; Views of the Ministry of Christain Universalism during the Last Half Century.  With Biographical shetches.  2nd edition.  Boston, Universalist Publishing House, 1883.
  • _____.  The Universalism of the Lord's Prayer; words to all Christain Churches and to All Mankind.  Boston: Universalist Publishing House, 1879.
  • Adams, Russell B, Jr.  The Boston Money Tree.  New York: Crowell, 1977.
  • Adams, William Forbes.  Ireland and Irish Immigration from 1815 to the Famine.  New Haven: University Press, 1932.  Reprint: New York: Russell & Russell, 1967.
  • Addison, Daniel Dulany.  Lucy Larcom; Life, Letters, and Diary.  Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1897.
  • Ahasuerus Council.  Old Constitution, Present Charter, By-laws, List of Members and Organization of Ahasuerus Council, Lowell, Mass.  Lowell: Stone & Huse, Printers, 1878.
  • Aiken, John.  Labor and Wages, At Home and Abroad; in a series of newspaper articles.  Lowell: D. Bixby and Company, 1849.
  • Albert, Felix.  Immigrant odyssey: a French-Canadian habitant in New England = abilingual edition of Histoire d'un enfant pauvre.  1st ed.  Orono, ME: University of Maine Press, 1991.
  • The Album, or Ladies' Common Place Book.  November, 1832.  Lowell: Alfred Gilman, 1833.
  • Album Souvenir et Historique de la Paroisse Saint Joseph de Lowell, Massachusetts.  Lowell: 1916.
  • Aleksandrovich, Aleksei, Grand Duke of Russia.  Grand Duke Alexis in the United States of America.  With a new introduction by Jeff C.  Dykes.  New York: Interland Publishers, 1972.
  • Allen, Donald M.  The New American Poetry, 1945-1960.  New York: Grove Press, 1960.
  • Allen, Elizabeth.  Sketches of Green Mountain Life.  With an Authobiography of the Author.  Lowell: Nathaniel L. Dayton, 1846.
  • Allen, Hervey.  Israfel; The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe.  New York: Rinehart, 1934.
  • Allen, Nathan.  Physical Degeneracy.  New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1870.
  • _____.  The Physical Development of Laws Governing the Human System.  Boston: Lee and Shephard, Publishers
  • Allen, Wilkes.  History of Chelmsford.  Haverhill: P.N. Green, 1820.  Reprint: Chelmsford Revolutionary War Bicentennial Celebrations Commission, 1974.
  • Amaron, Calvin E.  The Evangelization of the French Canadians of New England.  Lowell: Campbell and Hanscom, 1885.
  • _____. Inspection of Public and Private Schools.  Springfield, MA: Le Citoyen Franco-Americain, 1890.
  • American Women.  Edited by Frances E.  Willard and Mary A. Livermore.  New York: Crowell and Kirkpatrick, 1897.  Reprint: Gale Research, 1973.
  • Ames, Blanche Ames.  Adelbert Ames, 1835-1933; General, Senator, Governor.  New York: Argosy-Antiquarian Ltd, 1964.
  • Ames, Blanche Butler.  Chronicle from the Nineteenth Century: Family Letters of Blanche Butler and Adelbert Ames.  2 vols.  Privately Printed, 1957.
  • Andrews, John B. and W.D P. Bliss.  Report on the Condition of Women and Child Wage-Earners in the United States.  Vol. X.  History of Women in Trade Unions.  Washington: Government Printing Office, 1911.  Reprint: Arno Press, 1974.
  • Anna Archdale; or, The Lowell factory girl. And other tales.  Boston, F. Gleason [185-?].
  • Annual Statistics of Manufacturing in Lowell and Neighboring Towns.  Lowell: Vox Populi Press, 1835-1882.
  • Appleton, Nathan.  Introduction of the Power Loom, and Origin of Lowell.  Printed for the Proprietors of the Locks & Canals on Merrimack River.  Lowell: Penhallow, 1858.
  • _____. Memoirs of the Hon. Abbott Lawrence.  Boston: J.H. Eastburn's Press, 1856.
  • "Argus."  Norton; or, The Lights and Shades of a Factory Village Wherein are Developed Some of the Secret Incidents in the History of Lowell.  Lowell: Vox Populi Press, 1849.
  • Avery, Ephraim K.  The terrible hay-stack murder life and trial of the Rev. Ephraim K. Avery, for the murder of the young and beautiful Miss Sarah M. Cornell, a factory girl of Fall River, Mass., whose affections he won, and whose honor he betrayed ....  Philadelphia: Barclay, c1877.
  • Ayer, Frederick.  Reminiscences of Frederick Ayer.  Boston: Private Printing, 1923.  Reprint: Redwood Press, 1971.
  • Ayer, Frederick F.  Bell and Wing.  New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1911.
  • Ayer, James Cook.  Some of the Uses and Abuses in the Management of Our Manufacturing Corporations.  Lowell: C.M. Langley, 1863.
  • Bader, Bonnie.  East Side story.  Stories of the states.  1st ed.  New York: Silver Moon Press, c1993.
  • Bagnall, William R.  The Textile Industries of the United States.  Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1893.
  • Bailyn, Bernard.  Education in the Forming of American Society: Needs and Opportunities for Study.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1960.
  • Baines, Edward.  History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain.  London: H. Fisher, R. Fisher, and P. Jackson, 1835.  Reprint: Kelley, 1966.
  • Baird, Robert H.  The American Cotton Spinner, and Managers' and Carders' Guide: A Practical Treatise on Cotton Spinning.  Philadelphia: Hart, 1851.
  • Baker, George Pierce.  The Formation of the New England Railroad Systems.  Greenwood Press, 1968.
  • Ball, Benjamin W.  The Merrimack River, Hellenics, and Other Poems.  New York: G.P. Putman's Sons, 1892.
  • Barber, John W.  Historical Collections, Being a General Collection of Interesting Facts, Traditions, Biographical Sketches, Antedotes, etc.  Relating to the History and Antiquities of Every Town in Massachusetts, with Geographical Descriptions, Illustrated by 200 Engravings.  Worcester: Dorr, Howland and Company, 1839.
  • Bartlett, Elisha.  A Vindication of the Character and Condition of the Females Employed in the Lowell Mills against the Charges Contained in the Boston Times and the Boston Quarterly Review.  Lowell: Huntress, 1841.  Reprint: Arno Press, 1975.
  • Batchelder, Samuel.  Introduction and Early Progress of the Cotton Manufacture in the United States.  Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1863.  Reprint: Kelley, 1972.
  • Baum, Dale.  The Civil War Party System: The Case of Massachusetts.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984.
  • Beaver, R. Pierce.  All Love Excelling.  (Abby Child).
  • Bender, Thomas.  Toward An Urban Vision, Ideas and Institutions in Nineteenth Century America.  Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1975.
  • Bennett, Whitman.  Whittier, Bard of Freedom.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1941.  Reprint: Kennikat Press, 1972.
  • Bigelow, Erastus B.  Remarks on the Depressed Condition of Manufactures in Massachusetts, with Suggestions as to Its Cause and Its Remedy.  Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1858.
  • Bishop, John L.  A History of American Manufactures from 1608-1860.  3 vols.  Philadelphia: Edward Young and Company, 1868.  Reprint: Johnson Reprint Corp, 1967.
  • Blanchard, Rev. Amos.  An Address Delivered at the Consecration of the Lowell Cemetery, June 20, 1841.  Lowell: L. Huntress, 1841.
  • Bland, T.A.  Life of Benjamin F. Butler.  Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1879.
  • Blewett, Mary, ed.  Caught Between Two Worlds: a diary of a Lowell mill girl, Susan Brown, Epson, New Hampshire.  Lowell, MA: Lowell Museum, 1984.
  • _____. ed.  Factory Tracts.  Lowell: Lowell Publishing Company,
  • _____. ed.  The Last Generation: work and life in the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1910-1960.  Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, c1990.
  • _____. ed.  Surviving Hard Times: The Working People of Lowell.  Lowell, Lowell Museum, 1982.
  • Blouin, Francis X, Jr.  The Boston Region, 1810-1850: A Study of Urbanization.  Ann Harbor, MI: UMI Research Press, 1978.
  • Bradbury, Osgood.  Mysteries of Lowell.  Boston: 1844.
  • Braddon, M.E. (Mary Elizabeth).  The Factory Girl, or, All is not gold that glitters: a romance of real life.  De Witt's series of choice novels; no. 18.  New York: R.M. De Witt, [18--?].
  • Bradford, Gamaliel.  Damaged Souls; Discredited Figures in American History.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1923.  Reprint: Kennikat, 1969.
  • _____. Wives.  New York: Harper and Brothers, 1925.  Reprint: Arno Press, 1972.
  • Bradlee, Francis.  The Boston and Lowell Railroad.  Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1921.
  • Brandeis, Louis D. and Josephine Goldmark.  Women in Industry.  New York: The National Consumers' League, 1908.  Reprint: Arno Press, 1969.
  • Bremer, Fredrika.  The Homes of the New World.  2 vols.  New York: Harper and Brothers, 1868.  Reprint: Negro University Press, 1968.
  • Brown, George W.  Baltimore and the 19th of April, 1861.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 1887.
  • Brownlee, W. Elliott and Mary M. Brownlee.  Women in the American Economy; A Documentary History, 1675 to 1929.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976.
  • Brox, Jane.  Here and Nowhere Else: late seasons of a farm and its family.  The Concord Library.  Boston: Beacon Press, c1995.
  • Buenker, John D.  Immigration and Ethnicity.  Gale Research Co, 1977.
  • Burgess, Thomas.  Greeks in America.  Boston: Sherman, French and Company, 1913.  Reprint: Arno Press, 1970.
  • Burgy, J.  Herbert.  The New England Cotton Textile Industry.  Baltimore: Waverly Press, Inc, 1932.
  • Bushman, Claudia L.  "A Good Poor Man's Wife": being a chronicle of Harriet Hanson Robinson and her family in nineteenth-century New England.  Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1981.
  • Butler, Benjamin Franklin.  Butler's Book.  Boston: A.M. Thayer and Company, 1892.
  • _____. Private and Official Correspondence of Gen.  Benjamin F.  Butler, April 1860 to March 1868.  5 vols.  Norwood, MA: Plimpton Press, 1917.
  • Record of Benjamin F. Butler, compiled from original sources.  Boston: 1883.
  • _____. Record of Benjamin F. Butler since His Election as Governor of Massachusetts.  Boston: 1883.
  • Carnie, Ethel.  Songs of a Factory Girl.  London: Headley Brothers, 1911.
  • Caverly, Robert B.  The Eagle, Arlington, and Other Poems.  2 vols.  Dover, NH: F.W.B. Printing, 1871.
  • _____. History of the Indian Wars of New England, with Eliot the Apostle Fifty Years in the Midst of Them.  Boston: James H. Earle, 1882.
  • _____. The Merrimac and Its Incidents; An Epic Poem.  Boston: Innes and Niles, 1866.
  • Chambers, William.  Things as They are in America.  London: W. and R. Chambers, 1857.  Reprint: Negro University Press, 1968.
  • Charters, Ann.  Kerouac, A Biography.  San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1973.  Reissue: Warner Paperback, 1974.
  • Cheney, Liana.  Religious Architecture of Lowell.  Lowell, MA: L. Cheney, c1984.
  • Chevalier, Michael.  Society, Manners, and Politics in the United States; Letters on North America.  Boston: Weeks, Jordan and Company, 1839.  Reprint: Kelley, 1966.
  • Chronicle of Textile Machinery, 1824-1924. Issued to Commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the Saco-Lowell Shops, 1924.
  • Clark, Victor S.  History of Manufactures in the United States.  3 vols.  New York: McGraw-Hill Company, Inc, 1929.  Reprint: Peter Smith, 1949.
  • Clarke, Mary Stetson.  The Old Middlesex Canal.  Melrose, MA: Hilltop Press, 1974.
  • Cobden, Richard.  American Diaries, ed.  by Elizabeth H. Cawley.  Princeton: 1952.  Reprint: Greenwood, 1975.
  • Coburn, Frederick W.  History of Lowell and Its People.  3 vols.  New York: Lewis Historical Society, 1920.
  • _____. Moses Greeley Parker, M.D.  Lowell: 1921.
  • _____. Thomas Bayley Lawson; Portrait Painter of Newburyport and Lowell.  Salem, MA: Newcomb and Gauss Company, 1947.
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