MILL TOWNS IN NORTH EASTERN USA
The following
four photographs were taken by
Randolph Langenbach from 1966 until 1989.
Unfortunately, most of the images
in this series were destroyed in the 1991
Oakland, California
Firestorm.
All were
taken with a Linhof Color Kardon 4" x 5"
view camera.
all photographs © by Randolph Langenbach, 1967-78
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1) Merrimack River and Woolen Mills, Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1971
2) Ayer Mill, from the Pemberton Mill, Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1967
3) Boott Cotton Mills, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1972
4) Durfee Mills, Fall River, Massachusetts, 1970
5) Harmony Mills Mastodon Mill, Cohoes, New York, 1971
6) Harmony Mills Middle Mill, New York Mills, New York, 1971
7) Stairway in the Middle Mill of the Harmony Mills, 1971
8) Silk Mills, Patterson, New Jersey, 1973
9) and 10) Carding machines in one of the last small textile operations in Lowell, Massachusetts, housed in the former Lowell Manufacturing Company Millyard, 1978
11) Abandoned millworkers' boarding house, Killingly, Rhode Island, 1972
12) Abandoned Woolen Mill, Ashaway, Rhode Island, 1976