Note: This data was obtained through a query of the digitized federal census for 1920. By 1920, of all the major immigrant groups in Lowell, the Portuguese, comprising the sixth largest foreign-born ...

The eighteenth-century cotton entrepreneur reminds us that cutting-edge knowledge often resides in brains, not books.

Planting cotton for the first time was shaping up as a shrewd investment for young Pakistani farmer Muhammad Awais - until ...

Helmshore Mills Textile Museum in Rossendale is staying open right through the winter, giving visitors the rare chance to experience ...

Lewis Hine’s photograph of Addie Card, taken in August 1910, has become an iconic image of child labor. Hine learned that Addie started working at the North Pownal, Vermont, cotton mill when she was 8 ...

A Texas apartment builder is planning to begin work next year on a mixed-use development that includes a McKinney landmark. The proposed development has received preliminary site approvals from city ...

Among the marvels of American industry on display at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893 were the original Ferris wheel and the world’s first zipper. But for many of the exhibition’s tens of millions of ...

Kanpur: Track laying work has commenced in the approximately 3 km long underground section between Kanpur Central and ...

Cotton farmers from Madaram village in Nalgonda district blocked the Hyderabad highway with cotton bales on Tuesday, ...

District Collector Venkatesh Dhotre has urged that the cotton procurement process should be carried out without causing any ...