Pictures of flood of March 1936, Amoskeag Mfg. Co., Manchester, N.H. 1936.

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Pictures of flood of March 1936, Amoskeag Mfg. Co., Manchester, N.H. 1936.

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Photographic prints of flood damage to Amoskeag Manufacturing Company property, including interior views, and of the surrounding area. Many of the photographs show the efforts to stem the flooding with sandbags. The album also includes a map of Manchester, New Hampshire, a graph of flood water heights, a list of high water references and a list of mills and machinery having flood water damage.

1 album (128 photographic prints) : b&w ; 27 x 42 cm.

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Amoskeag manufacturing company

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Amoskeag was founded in 1825 by Samuel Slater and others, with mills in Manchester, New Hampshire, and corporate headquarters in Boston, Mass. It was incorporated in 1831 and became one of the largest producers of cotton cloth in the world. It closed in bankruptcy in 1935, and its assets were taken over by Amoskeag Industries, formed by a group of Manchester citizens and businesses to act as a holding company and real estate broker for the bankrupt manufacturer. From the description ...