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  • Author: Dublin, Thomas

Date: 1979

Language: en

Find in a Library: 4805234

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From Columbia University Press: "In this prize-winning study, Thomas Dublin explores, in carefully researched detail, the lives and experiences of the first generation of American women to face the demands of industrial capitalism. Dublin describes…

  • Author: Dublin, Thomas (editor)

Date: 1981 (1993)

Language: en

Find in a Library: 7203495

Find Online: OL9817988M

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From Columbia University Press: "Between 1820 and 1860, tens of thousands of single women streamed from rural New England to find work in the burgeoning factory towns of the region. In 'Farm to Factory' Thomas Dublin has selected five sets of letters…

  • Author: Byrne, William
  • Author: Leahy, William Augustine
  • Author: O'Donnell, Jason H.
  • Author: Finen, John E.
  • Author: McCoy, J.J.
  • Author: Dowling, A.
  • Author: Young, Edmund J.A.
  • Author: Michaud, John S.

Date: 1899

Language: en

Find in a Library: 1236148

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Lengthy 1899 historical portrait of Roman Catholic dioceses in the New England states. Includes the archdiocese of Boston, the dioceses of Providence (Rhode Island), Portland (Maine), and Manchester (New Hampshire).

  • Author: Rouillard, Jacques

Date: 1985

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 14129807

Find Online: OL2763322M

Un portrait historique des travailleurs canadiens-français aux États-Unis, dans les usines de la Nouvelle-Angleterre, au prémiere moitié du 20e siècle. Les synthèses historiques de l'immigration et du travail, avec certaines…

  • Author: Santerre, Richard

Date: 1972

Language: en

Find in a Library: 415968

Find Online: OL5336638M

Brief history of the Franco American people and their Roman Catholic parishes of Lowell, Massachusetts, from early periods of French Canadian immigration up to the 1970s.

  • Author: Lee, Anthony W.

Date: 2008

Language: en

Find in a Library: 171048914

Find Online: OL20734799M

A history of photography, shoemaking, mining, and immigration as they converged on North Adams, Massachusetts, in the 1870s. From the text: "...[this book] is concerned...with the industrialization of a New England craft at one of its key historical…

  • Author: Kelly, Richard

Date: 1956

Language: en

Find in a Library: 409348

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A biographical tribute to nine members of the Textile Workers Union of America, represented in mills across the industrial United States. Characterization of conditions at various mills, including those in Fall River, Massachusetts, and Cohoes, New…

  • Author: Dublin, Thomas

Date: 1992

Language: en

Find in a Library: 24214090

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From the inside cover: "Lowell, Massachusetts, was America's first large-scale planned industrial community. After its establishment as a town in 1826, Lowell was celebrated for its innovative textile technology and its unique workforce of young…

  • Author: Giamo, Benedict

Date: 2000

Language: English

Find in a Library: 42690123

From Southern Illinois University Press: "Giamo’s primary purpose is to chronicle and clarify Kerouac’s various spiritual quests through close examinations of [his] novels. Kerouac began his quest with 'On the Road,' which also is…

  • Author: Martineau, Malvina-E.

Date: 1940

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 36552011

Des écritures et un oraison funèbre d'un homme treÌ€s significatif au mouvement survivance aux Etats-Unis, un fondateur de la presse franco-américaine dans la Nouvelle Angleterre au dix-neuvième sieÌ€cle, et rédacteur ancien de…

  • Author: Simoneau, Irene M.

Date: 2008 October

Language: English

Find in a Library: None (full text available here)

Presentation made at St. John's Episcopal Church in Bangor, Maine, by a former Ph. D. candidate in Canadian-American history at the University of Maine, Orono, Maine. The presentation is, as the author calls it, a "spiritual autobiography," exploring…

  • Author: Labonté, Youville

Date: 1995

Language:

Find in a Library: 32286274

Marriage index of all persons wedded in St. Jean-Baptiste Roman Catholic Church, Lowell, Massachusetts, in the period from 1869 to 1910. The text includes over 1,600 marriages. This parish was terminated on June 30, 1993.

  • Author: Crépeau, Georges

Date: 1892-00-00 (créé)

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 6471886

Un petit roman policier. L'amour et un assassiner dans un village tranquille. Écrit à Lowell, Massachusetts, en 1892. Republié en 1979 avec le support de Title VII ESEA and le NMDC. Le livre commence: "Mort!...Oui mort!...On crut d'abord…

  • Author: Beaulieu, Victor-Lévy

Date: 1972

Language: fr (en translation)

Find in a Library: 877702, 2966704

Un livre comme essai sur les rélations entre la vie et la littérature de Jack Kerouac - son écriture et son héritage - avec des réactions de l'auteur.

  • Author: April, Susan
  • Author: Brouillette, Paul
  • Author: Marion, Paul
  • Author: St. Onge, Marie Louise

Date: 1999

Language: en

Find in a Library: 40471565

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A selection of various literatures from Franco-American New England writers. From the Introduction: "In these poems and essays we have four people, artists, holding the threads of a fading ethnic subculture and tying the ends tightly to the fabric of…

  • Author: Jarvis, Charles E.

Date: 1973

Language: English

Find in a Library: 2737349

Biography of Jack Kerouac published in his hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts.

  • Author: Tremblay, Bill

Date: 1971

Language: English

Find in a Library: 197842

Debut book of poems by a native of Southbridge, Massachusetts.

  • Author: Poteet, Maurice (rédacteur)

Date: 1987

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 19724424

De textes fictives et non-, une grande collection qui commence à expliquer le phénomène de l'exode canadien-français aux Etats-Unis. Contiens des pièces de Pierre Anctil, Josaphat Benoit, A. Bourbonnière,…

  • Author: Marion, Paul

Date: 1984

Language: English

Find in a Library: 12075115

A book of poems from a Lowell, Massachusetts, native. From Apple Tree Review: "Marion seems to delight in grasping the elemental thing that is the city, the significant, the insignificant, the reality, the metaphor....His language is clear, precise,…

  • Author: Marion, Paul

Date: 1989

Language: English

Find in a Library: 20807405

A book of poems from a native of Lowell, Massachusetts. Marion is author of many other works of poetry, as well as editor of a collection of Jack Kerouac's writings.

  • Author: Marion, Paul

Date: 1986

Language: English

Find in a Library: 16000166

A chapbook of poems from a native of Lowell, Massachusetts. Marion is author of many other works of poetry, as well as editor of a collection of Jack Kerouac's writings.

  • Author: Robbins, Rhea Côté (editor)

Date: 2006

Language: English (traduction du français)

Find in a Library: 76901514

Contains an English translation of Camille Lessard-Bissonnette's 1936 serialized novel "Canuck," an historical section entitled "French Women of North America," and an English translation of "The Young Franco American" by Alberte Gastonguay.

  • Author: Ledoux, Denis (editor)

Date: 1991

Language: English

Find in a Library: 23009726

In this 1991 anthology, Denis Ledoux places together the poetry and short fiction prose of thirteen authors in an effort to illustrate the range of the contemporary Franco-American artistic voice. All of the pieces included in this collection might…

  • Author: Kerouac, Jack

Date: 1963

Language: English

Find in a Library: 5887038

Auto/biographical novel about Gerard - Jack Kerouac's older brother - whose personality, illness, and death at a young age shaped the early part of Jack's life. An early piece of the "Duluoz Legend."