Busiest New Hampshire: Manchester on the Merrimac River, 57 miles from Boston, is one of the busiest manufacturing cities in New England. Its cotton mills alone are the largest in the world. The Amoskeag mills use annually 47 million pounds of cotton, 9 million pounds of wool, on 18,500 looms, with 550,000 spindles. Their product is per week 4,100,000 yards of cotton and 462,500 yards of wollen goods.
Item Type: Postcard, Printed, Divided Back
Photographer: Unknown
Camera: Unknown
Publisher: The Hugh C. Leighton Co. (Portland, ME)
Approximate Date: 1900-1909 [see note below]
Postmarked: February 1, 1910
Collection: Matthew D. Cosgro, Nashua City Station
NCS Collection ID: 9304020790
Added: 6/20/2016
Boston and Maine Railroad • Manchester, New Hampshire • Manchester - Manchester, NH
Approximated Date • The type of media, the subject content, the publisher, and postal cancellations all contribute to identifying the approximate date. Due to the reproduction of early images onto modern mediums or the long timespan a medium may have been in use, this date may be inaccurate.