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A number of workers pose with roles of thread at a print works plant in North Adams

Three workers pose at the Weber Brothers Shoe Factory in North Adams.

Black and white photograph of North Adams rail yard and city from the top of a small tunnel.

Two workers, one appearing to oil wheels, the other in the conductors booth, pose with a passenger train bound for New York. The other man in black with a young boy appear to be travelers with the train. Train number is 241.

Black and white view of the Beaver Mill from Second Bridge Street in North Adams.

Black and white photograph of the Hoosac Tunnel East Portal in Florida Massachusetts. Shacks appear to line either side of the tracks.

Black and white west facing view of Main Street in North Adams. Horse and buggies line either side of the road.

This is a photograph of the shoe store owned by Calvin T. Sampson and stocked with Sampson shoes, located in downtown North Adams on the first floor of a 3-story building.

This is a staged photograph taken in 1877 of three of the Chinese workers brought in to break the strike at the Sampson Shoe Factory. Here, they appear in Western dress. They are tentatively identified as Charlie Sing (the overseer), Ah Dock, and Ah…

This is a photograph of a man identified as Chung Ah Bard, one of the Chinese workers brought in to break the Sampson strike. The photograph was taken in approximately 1873, likely in the photography studio of William Hurd and William Smith. Here,…