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Life in the North. 1830-1850. http://www.antique-pocket-watch.com/image-files/factory_appleton1_1.jpg. Watch Factory in Waltham, MA. http://lh4.ggpht.com/_AUqSG2O_seA/SsEC-nfYoiI/AAAAAAAAC3E/kW4ID-m00Os/DSC01338.JPG.
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Life in the North 1830-1850
http://www.antique-pocket-watch.com/image-files/factory_appleton1_1.jpghttp://www.antique-pocket-watch.com/image-files/factory_appleton1_1.jpg Watch Factory in Waltham, MA
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_AUqSG2O_seA/SsEC-nfYoiI/AAAAAAAAC3E/kW4ID-m00Os/DSC01338.JPGhttp://lh4.ggpht.com/_AUqSG2O_seA/SsEC-nfYoiI/AAAAAAAAC3E/kW4ID-m00Os/DSC01338.JPG The United States was divided into two economically distinct regions. New England, the Northeast and the Midwest had a rapidly growing economy based on family farms, industry, mining, commerce and transportation, with a large and rapidly growing urban population. The north’s mills and factories were usually family owned.
http://libcom.org/files/images/history/Lynn%20strike%201860.jpghttp://libcom.org/files/images/history/Lynn%20strike%201860.jpg Chicago – workers’ strike ca 1859
http://www.leegallery.com/images/hawes/Hawes%20ZZ1014.jpg JOSIAH JOHNSON HAWESBowdoin Street, Boston, ca. 1860
http://www.leegallery.com/images/hawes/Hawes%20S1614.jpg J.J. HAWES“School Street”, Boston ca. 1860s
Click on this link to see more photos of Antebellum Boston taken by J.J. Hawes in the 1860’s. http://www.leegallery.com/photographers/91-josiah-johnson-hawes.html
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c0/Chicago_block.jpghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c0/Chicago_block.jpg A block of brick buildings on Lake Street, Chicago, in 1860.
http://www.damninteresting.net/content/traffic_on_broadway_1860.jpghttp://www.damninteresting.net/content/traffic_on_broadway_1860.jpg Traffic on Broadway, 1860
http://www.blackcreek.ca/dotAsset/38892.jpg http://historicparks.org/imagegallery/delaosa/images/ConstanciaDeLaOsa_jpg.jpg http://www.nmaie-newservice.com/v1i3/full-size/v1i3-Mye-1860-unknown_full.jpg Clothing styles of 1860
http://wigwags.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/dewitt_clinton.jpghttp://wigwags.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/dewitt_clinton.jpg Steam engine and passenger cars
http://whitewraithe.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/slaves-freed.jpg?w=440&h=394http://whitewraithe.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/slaves-freed.jpg?w=440&h=394 Freed slaves