Engraving
- Title:
- Untitled
- Object Name:
- Engraving
- Object ID:
- 1995.592.13
- Creator:
- Kramer, Sebastian
- Place of Origin:
- Boston, MA
- Date:
- circa 1856
- Description:
- Wood engraving, untitled view of Dover, NH, by Kramer & Company, c. 1856. Black and cream printed on white paper; double banded border around horizontal oval. View of the Cocheco Manufacturing Company's print works, with Cocheco River in foreground and village behind; scene framed by trees; mountains in background; printed below image: "Kramer & Co's Lith. Boston"; "Dover, N.H." pencil inscription beneath print. Unframed.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-11 W-14.5 inches
- Provenance:
- View of Cocheco Manufacturing Company’s print works, where a majority of the workers, mass-producing printed cottons, were women, many from rural towns in the area. In 1828, about 400 women employed at the mills, disturbed by reduced wages and new regulations, organized the nation's first entirely female strike.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
- People:
- Kramer, Sebastian
- Subjects:
- Dover NH, Industrial buildings, Industrialization, Mills
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