Living on the Boott: Historical Archaeology at the Boott Mills Boardinghouses of Lowell, Massachusetts - Hardcover

Mrozowski, Stephen A.; Ziesing, Grace H.; Beaudry, Mary C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1558490345 ISBN 13: 9781558490345

Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996

Synopsis

xvi + 93 pages including index, information learned from an excavation of the boarding house in Lowell Massachusetts that was home to working class men from the Boott Cotton Mills, bw illustrations

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About the Author

Mary C. Beaudry is associate professor of archaeology and anthropology at Boston University.

From Library Journal

The authors, a group of college professors, undertook a summer archaeological project at an early industrial mill in Lowell, Massachusetts. They have methodically put together from pieces of information a valuable study that adds to our knowledge of 19th-century American history. They are able to clarify some of the differences in the lifestyles of those who lived in boardinghouses, tenements, and mill agents' houses and how those lives changed during the 19th century. Not the dry, technical tome the title may imply, this work is both interesting and instructive. Recommended for public libraries.?Marilyn K. Dailey, Natrona Cty. P.L., Casper, Wyo.
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About this edition

• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1558490345
• ISBN 13: 9781558490345
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 112