 | The photographic excitement of a steel foundry. "The modern foundry has its own sinister aspects; the sight of a casting prompts the reflection that hell is not a purely theological concept." Photo by SIAI, Ing. C.M. Lerici, Milan, IT. Copyright holder unknown. In Umberto Eco, The Picture History of Inventions, 1963, p. 214. 11.2.1 |
 | Chinese shoe workers at work in Massachusetts, 1870. They were recruited by a special agent sent to San Francisco by the owner of the factory. The Granger Collection, 381 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016. In Wayne Moquin, ed., Makers of America, Vol. 3, 1971, p. 240. 8.12.6, 11.2.1 |
 | Heinz Co. Administration Building. The five-story open rotunda, decorated for a reception, 1908. Courtesy of the H.J. Heinz Co., 600 Grant St., Pittsburgh, PA 15219. All rights reserved. Our thanks to the Company. In American Heritage, Feb. 1972, p. 42. 11.2.2 |
 | Winslow Homer(?), "Bell Time." Closing time at the Washington textile mills, Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1868. Harper's Weekly, July 25, 1868. In John A. Kouwenhoven, Adventures of America 1857-1900, 1938, Plate 115. 11.2.1 |
 | Amoskeag Textile Works, Manchester, N.H. Workers heading home, 1909. See also LB-G-2,4. Lewis Hine photo. The National Child Labor Committee Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-DIG-nclc-01806. In American Heritage, XXI, 3, April 1970, p. 110. 11.2.1, 11.2.2 |
 | Amoskeag Textile Works, Manchester, N.H. The greatest concentration of U.S. textile mills. The area in 1915 employed 15,000 and turned out 50 miles of cloth an hour. See also LB-G-2,3. Copyright holder unknown. In American Heritage, XXI, 3, April 1970, p. 110. 11.2.1 |
 | Street in Ludlow, Mass. 1905. "The Ludlow Manufacturing Associates are erecting the most modern village of its class in the United States, to house the operatives at their cotton mill." Budgett Meakin, Model Factories and Villages: Ideal Conditions of Labour and Housing, George W. Jacobs & Co., 1905, p. 402. 11.2.2 |
 | Style of homes for employees at Swift's Mill, Elberton, Georgia. 1905. Budgett Meakin, Model Factories and Villages: Ideal Conditions of Labour and Housing, George W. Jacobs & Co., 1905, p. 392. 11.2.2 |
 | Hopedale, Mass., backyards. 1905. "The back premises are particularly attractive, strict sanitary regulations being in force, and some $40 being offered yearly in prizes for the best-kept 'yards.'" Budgett Meakin, Model Factories and Villages: Ideal Conditions of Labour and Housing, George W. Jacobs & Co., 1905, p. 406. 11.2.2 |
 | Amoskeag Textile Works, Manchester, N.H., around the turn of the 20th century. Company housing was located across the canal from the mills. See also LB-G-3,4. Copyright holder unknown. In American Heritage, XXI, 3, April 1970, p. 110. 11.2.1 |
 | Street of Whitinsville, Massachusetts. 1905. "Surrounding the cotton machinery works established by the Whitin family…there has been no set plan for building a village, but street after street of neat houses has been erected as required…gleaming white amid abundant green, the trees on either side of the way having had time to develop." Budgett Meakin, Model Factories and Villages: Ideal Conditions of Labour and Housing, George W. Jacobs & Co., 1905, p. 398. 11.2.2 |
 | "Hell's Half Acre." Child prostitution, Birmingham, Alabama mill settlement, 1910. Child labor. Lewis Hine photo. The National Child Labor Committee Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-DIG-nclc-01888. In Judith Gutman, Lewis Hine and the American Social Conscience, 1967, p. 70. 11.2.1 |
“Mr. Pollard took ideas for guiding history instruction and incorporated them into full activities and discussions to make the history classroom more engaging while also using established techniques to develop critical thinking. I got more out of Mr. Pollard's classroom than just a chronological series of events that took place in the United States. I came out with an idea of why events took place the way they did, and what that means for all of us today.”
Mo Torres
Natomas Charter School Graduate, Class of 2006, describing History Project Teacher Leader Jeff Pollard.
Natomas Charter School Graduate, Class of 2006