“Spinning cotton yarn in the great textile mills, Lawrence, Mass.” is one of the images from the exhibit “Industry, Wealth, and Labor: Mapping New England’s Textile Industry” at the Osher Map Library at the University of Southern Maine. Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, University of Southern […]
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Library exhibit explores fraught history of textile industry
“Marguerite, a former slave,” is all which is known of the hanging impression of a girl in a green gown in Cornell University Library’s Loewentheil Collection of African-American Pictures. But the woman’s pose, gaze and garments inform a wealthy tale of creative imagination and self-determination, said Tamika Nunley, affiliate professor of […]