A group of mill workers. Albert Duquette on top

ID: 793 ~ Source: Hine, Lewis Wickes, photographer. A group of mill workers. Albert Duquette on top. Eclippse i.e., Eclipse Mills, North Adams, Mass. Noon. Richard K. Conant, Witness. Location: North Adams, Massachusetts. United States North Adams. North Adams Massachusetts, 1911. August. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2018676640/.

 ~ Date: 1911
This file appears in: Eclipse Mill
A group of mill workers. Albert Duquette on top

Photo by Lewis Hines of child workers in Eclipse Mill in North Adams

This file appears in: Eclipse Mill

By Yohannes Lantz
Harvey Arnold with his brother Oliver and his friend Nathanial Blinn built the Eclipse Mill in the 1830s and began manufacturing cotton goods. The three owned Eclipse and Slater mill by the mid-1830s. Things went bad for the company during a…