Some materials included here are used in the guided museum lesson
Industry in New Hampshire or in the traveling program New Hampshire Hands at Work. Other material
relates to New Hampshire's crafts revival of the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Documents are in PDF format unless otherwise specified. They require Adobe®
Acrobat® or the free utility
Adobe® Reader®.
Fred Normandin (boy with bare arms), Manchester, NH, 1909. Lewis
Hine photograph from the collection of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
From Cow to Kitchen: An Overview of Milk
Delivery in New Hampshire (slides)
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about viewing slide shows.]
This presentation reviews changes in the way dairy products get from the barn to the breakfast table and how these
changes reflect the state's social history. [2.4 MB]
Development of Industrial New Hampshire
This lesson describes a four-week plan for students to work in groups researching and sharing information about
the following topics: Amoskeag Mills, Cocheco Mills, Nashua Manufacturing Company, Belknap Mill, Swenson's Granite
Quarry, Abbot and Downing Company, log drives, paper mills (e.g., Berlin Mill Company, Brown Paper Company, James
River Company), logging railroad companies, Boston & Maine Railroad, Lake Transportation, ship building in
Portsmouth, summer resorts of Lake Winnipesaukee, summer resorts of the White Mountains, Amy Beach, Mary Baker
Eddy, Maxfield Parrish, or Augustus St. Gaudens. [HTML
Version]
Documents of Mill Life
This file shows three documents that would have affected the everyday lives of mill workers: boarding house regulations,
worker regulations, and a work timetable.
Industry in New Hampshire:
Background and Objectives
This document serves as an introduction to the study of industry in New Hampshire. It is part of a pre-visit packet
sent to schools in preparation for the museum's lesson on industry in the state.
Industry in New Hampshire:
Classroom Activities
Activities in this document help students understand the nature of manufacturing as opposed to crafting by hand.
Some references are to documents that schools receive by mail after signing up for a guided museum lesson on industry
in New Hampshire.
Industry in New Hampshire:
Reading List
The reading list supports the outreach program NH Hands at Work as well as the guided museum lesson Industry
in New Hampshire.
Industry in New Hampshire:
A Timeline
This document chronicles important dates in the history of industry in the state. It also includes important events
that occurred elsewhere but that influenced industrial activity in New Hampshire.
Making a Waterwheel
Here are a diagram and directions for making a simple waterwheel.
Mill Worker Simulation
By participating in the simulation described in this lesson plan, students come to understand the transition from
a home-based agrarian economy to that of a factory economy with mass-produced goods. The "rounds" of
the simulation also show students the general progress of labor relations during the nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries. [HTML Version]
Mill Workers' Songs: "Hard Times"
and "Poverty Knock" (lyrics)
The lyrics of these two songs present the point of view of mill girls of the 1800s.
Mills of New Hampshire
This lesson outlines an approach to the study New Hampshire's industrial history that encourages understanding
of the geographical factors which made some towns successful manufacturing centers.
[HTML Version]
New Hampshire: An Industrious State (slides)
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ME: Information about viewing slide shows.]
This slide show explores how New Hampshire people have
made a living from earliest times to the present—from trade to tourism and from farm to factory. The presentation
traces in general terms changes in the economic forces that have driven the state. The show will add perspective
to a classroom unit on industrialism and also will work well in conjunction with the museum's outreach program
New Hampshire Hands at Work and the guided museum lesson that concentrates on industry. [2.3 MB]
New Hampshire and the Arts
& Crafts: Background
This document provides background for teachers interested in New Hampshire's arts and crafts revival in the late
1800s and early 1900s and in the women prominent in the movement.
New Hampshire Women and
the Arts & Crafts Movement: Reading List
This list of readings is for teachers wishing to read about
the arts and crafts movement in New Hampshire and about the women prominent in the revival.
Tools of the River Lumberman
Several tools important to river lumbermen are depicted
and described. Included are a raft auger, a peavey, and a marking axe.
Teacher's Guide to Progressivism
in New Hampshire
Created to accompany a special issue of Historical New Hampshire (vol. 55, nos. 3 and 4 [2000]), this guide
provides background and activities to help teachers and students understand the changes in society that took place
beginning in the early 1900s as people came to recognize the dark side of rampant industrialism.
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