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A shoemaker's story : being chiefly about French Canadian immigrants, enterprising photographers, rascal Yankees, and Chinese cobblers in a nineteenth-century factory town
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"On a June morning in 1870, seventy-five Chinese immigrants stepped off a train in the New England factory town of North Adams, Massachusetts, imported as strikebreakers by the local shoe manufactu...
"On a June morning in 1870, seventy-five Chinese immigrants stepped off a train in the New England factory town of North Adams, Massachusetts, imported as strikebreakers by the local shoe manufacturer. They threaded their way through a hostile mob and then--remarkably--their new employer lined them up along the south wall of his factory and had them photographed as the mob fell silent. So begins A Shoemaker's Story. Anthony Lee seeks to understand the social forces that brought this now-famous photograph into being, and the events and images it subsequently spawned. He traces the rise of photography as a profession and the hopes and experiences of immigrants trying to find their place in the years following the Civil War. He describes the industrialization of the once-traditional craft of shoemaking, and the often violent debates about race, labor, class, and citizenship that industrialization caused." -- Publisher's description.
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- Creator
- Anthony W. Lee
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2008]
- ©2008
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- vii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780691133256, 0691133255
- OCLC
- ocn171048914
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-298) and index.
- Introduction -- Chapter One: What the Shoe Manufacturer Saw -- Chapter Two: What the Photographers Saw -- Chapter Three: What the Crispins Saw -- Chapter Four: What the Chinese Saw -- Postscript
Subjects
- French-Canadians -- Massachusetts -- North Adams -- History -- 19th century.
- Immigrants -- Massachusetts -- North Adams -- History -- 19th century.
- Chinese -- Massachusetts -- North Adams -- History -- 19th century.
- Shoemakers -- Massachusetts -- North Adams -- History -- 19th century.
- Working class -- Massachusetts -- North Adams -- History -- 19th century.
- Photographers -- Massachusetts -- North Adams -- History -- 19th century.
- Photography -- Social aspects -- Massachusetts -- North Adams -- History -- 19th century.
- North Adams (Mass.) -- History -- 19th century.
- North Adams (Mass.) -- History -- 19th century -- Pictorial works.
- North Adams (Mass.) -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.