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- Author: Creamer, Daniel Barnett
- Author: Coulter, Charles Wellsley
Date: 1971
Language: en
Find in a Library: 241413
Reprinting of a 1939 publication funded by the Works Progress Administration. Exploration of the economic conditions in Manchester, New Hampshire, and the economic climate surrounding the mill complex of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Corporation. The…
- Author: Cole, Donald
Date: 2002 (1963)
Language: en
Find in a Library: 475026
Find Online: OL7972822M
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A history of the city of Lawrence, Massachusetts, as a site of mass industrialization, diverse immigration, and unique dynamics of class and ethnicity around the turn of the 20th century. From UNC Press: "The violence and radicalism connected with…
- Author: Brière, Eloise
Date: 1986
Language: en; fr
Find in a Library: 34578272
French heritage travel and resource guide to New York state, divided by region and described by town and city. From the foreword to the text: "Continuing the tradition begun in the 17th century, French and Canadian ties flourish in New York which…
- Author: Scontras, Charles A.
Date: 1994
Language: en
Find in a Library: 31188167
A restorative history of the birth and early life of organized labor in Maine in the middle of the nineteenth century, on the rise of the industrial period. From the preface: "The history of organized labor in Maine has been ignored by the State's…
- Author: Connors-Carlson, Shirlee
Date: 2001
Language: en
Find in a Library: 49045997
A pictorial history of life and logging in St. John, Maine, at the beginning of the twentieth century. Includes some pictures that are featured in the book "Acadian Hard Times" (Stewart Doty, 1991), as well as many others that capture the households…
- Author: Fairfield, Roy P.
Date: 1956 (2003)
Language: en
Find in a Library: 3085526
Find Online: OL2044914W
A history of the coastal and industrial city of Saco, Maine, from its inception to the 1950s. Written by a Saco native. The inside cover reads: "In a rich and vivid history, documented with record, with facts bearing evidence of infinitely rewarding…
- Author: Van Lent, Peter C.
Date: 1988
Language: en
Find in a Library: 20845209
Find Online: OL1782127M
A professor of folklore offers here a study of the Franco Americans in northern New York state. He explores the themes of religion, family, work, and language, and interrogates their symbols in the folklore and folk art of Malone, New York and a…
- Author: Pelletier, Martine A.
Date: 1981
Language: en
Find in a Library: 726513498
A brief history, collection of historical letters, poems, photos, and other works compiled in a celebration of the town of Van Buren, Maine's centennial. From the editor: "Each and everyone of us has a dream. This is a story about a group of people…
- Author: Pelletier, Martine
- Author: Ferretti, Monica Dionne
Date: 1979
Language: en
Find in a Library: 5336702
Find Online: OL4434389M
A history of the people of Van Buren, Maine, with a heavy emphasis on local folklore. Includes a large collection of images of town buildings both past and present, historic documents, family trees, local advertisements, and local maps.
- Author: Le Jeune, R.P.L.
Date: 1990 (1918)
Language: Français
Find in a Library: 144748841 (peut être lu au Centre Franco-Américain, Université du Maine, Orono, Maine)
Une brève histoire de l'Acadie entre 1412 et 1800 (entre colonisation, le Grand Dérangement, et repopulation). Certaines descriptions d'événements significatives dans la courte durée de vie des premières communatés Acadiennes de…
- Author: Dunwell, Steve
Date: 1978
Language: en
Find in a Library: 4443770
Find Online: OL4743753M
A chronicle of centuries of labor in black and white photographs. Historical and modern perspectives on mills, industrial towns, and workers in New England from the earliest industrialization period to the 1970s. From the inside flap: "The full force…
- Author: Beaupré, Norman
Date: 2005
Language: Français
Find in a Library: 145498315
De Llumina Press: "...l'histoire de sa [Beaupré] grand-mere maternelle venue du Québec avec son mari et leurs dix enfants pour prendre demeure aux Etats-Unis dans un village du New Hampshire."
- Author: Hebert, Ernest
Date: 1979
Language: English
Find in a Library: 4492057
The first piece of Hebert's "Darby Series" - five novels set in a fictional town in rural New Hampshire. From University Press of New England: "Howard Elman is a man whose internal landscape is as disordered as his front yard, where native New…
- Author: Tomasi, Mari
Date: 1949
Language: English
Find in a Library: 414117
1940s novel on immigrant stone-cutters of Green Mountain State granite. Explores in specific the Italian American worker experience. "Like Lesser Gods" was republished in 1988 by the New England Press. Written by former Vermont Writers' Project…
- Author: Proulx, E. Annie
Date: 1996
Language: English
Find in a Library: 34515071
A startlingly inclusive selection of a century's worth of American immigrant vignettes tied together by the movement of a single accordion. For immigration studies, it is a portrayal attentive in sentiment and beckoning in its concern for the new…
- Author: Parsons, Vivian (LaJeunesse)
Date: 1941
Language: en
Find in a Library: 4207548
Open Library: OL6420912M
Novel set in an American ore-mining town at the end of the 19th century. Begins with Père La Tendresse sending his son, Joseph, from their farm near Trois-Rivières, Québec to work for a time in the United States, in Michigan's Upper…
- Author: Metalious, Grace
Date: 1963
Language: English
Find in a Library: 1289572
Novel about the French-Canadian Bergeron family, its transition and adaption into American society through work and community in upstate New York. Written by the author of the story, "Peyton Place," that became the basis for a long-running television…
- Author: Ledoux, Denis
Date: 1988
Language: English
Find in a Library: 18787563
Ledoux has woven a tapestry of vignettes all coming to a seam at self-reflection. 'What Became of Them' is a collection of short stories that spans a century of Franco America, its cultural mutations, and its burdening self-absorption. Ledoux finds a…