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  Jim : L'histoire de Jim Caron jeune homme, racontée par lui-même (à  101 ans) (texte et audio)

  L'histoire de Jim Caron, 101 ans, tel que raconté à  Milton, New Hampshire, et rédigé par Julien Olivier. Sa famille, son travail dans les bois et dans le moulin, son école, and sa vie apriès son immigration aux Etats-Unis. Du texte: "Jim Caron m'a raconté son histoire par un jour bien froid et ensoleillé, dans la maison en campagne ou il vit depuis deux ans. Avant ca, it habitait seul, dans un petit chambre à  Somersworth, New Hampshire. Maintenant, à  Milton, encore au New Hampshire, il demeure avec une famille qui l'a adopté comme leur pé-pière: la mière, le pière, leurs deux fils et la petite fille que Jim aime tout, un chat et les animaux dans la grange....Il est content avec eux....C'était le 21 janvier 1977. Jim avait cent et un ans et quinze jours..."

  Tags Augusta ME, Berwick ME, Dover NH, Emigration and Immigration, Family, Labor History, Lake Winnipesaukee NH, Language and Linguistics, Manchester NH, Merrimack River Valley, Mills and Mill Work, NMDC, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Rochester NH, Somersworth NH, Waterville ME, Youth
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  Tom Plant : The Making of a Franco-American Entrepreneur, 1859-1941

  Critical biography of Tom Plant, leader in the shoe industry of New England near the turn of the twentieth century, situated in the Bath, Maine, area. Refutes and diversifies the stereotypical notion of the French Canadian immigrant worker experience in New England. Introduction written by Jacques Ferland, University of Maine Professor of History.

  Tags Bath ME, Business and Economics, Emigration and Immigration, Geography, Labor History, Lake Winnipesaukee NH, Lynn MA, Mills and Mill Work, Personal History: Biography and Oral History
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  Seamless Hosiery Industry of Laconia, New Hampshire

  Article describing the state of hosiery mills in Laconia, New Hampshire in the late 1930s: obstacles to effective production, descriptions of economic advantages, suggestions for improvement. Historical background from the origins of the first Laconia hosiery in 1847. Mill closures beginning in 1923: their causes and some of their impacts. Current 1930s industrial competition between Laconia mills and similar producers in Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern states: Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee. Includes black and white photographs.

  Tags Belmont NH, Blackstone River Valley, Franklin NH, Georgia, Hillsboro NH, Laconia NH, Lake Winnipesaukee NH, Merrimack River Valley, New England, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Geography, Nonfiction -- History, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Tilton NH
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  Seamless Hosiery Industry of Laconia, New Hampshire

  Article describing the state of hosiery mills in Laconia, New Hampshire in the late 1930s: obstacles to effective production, descriptions of economic advantages, suggestions for improvement. Historical background from the origins of the first Laconia hosiery in 1847. Mill closures beginning in 1923: their causes and some of their impacts. Current 1930s industrial competition between Laconia mills and similar producers in Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern states: Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee. Includes black and white photographs.

  Tags Belmont NH, Binghamton NY, Blackstone River Valley, Franklin NH, Georgia, Hillsboro NH, Laconia NH, Lake Winnipesaukee NH, Merrimack River Valley, New England, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Geography, Nonfiction -- History, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Tilton NH