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Black and white newspaper clipping of the wires being insulated for use in blasting the stone to build the Hoosac Tunnel. A woman appears to be sitting beyond the machine.

A black and white photograph of the Bushwood Wharf in 1915.

Carey Heatherly is a native Alabamian. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Samford University, majoring in History, and a Master’s of Library and Information Studies from the University of Alabama. He joined the University of Montevallo’s…

Clipping of a sketch of the Chinese strikebreakers at the Sampson Shoe Mill being taught how to use the machines

Clipping of a sketch showing Chinese strikebreakers working the machines at the Sampson Shoe Mill

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…

A copy of the Chronicles of St. Mary’s, Monthly Bulletin of the St. Mary’s County Historical Society
Volume 10, No. 8; August 1962. A report by General Robert Hogaboom, UMSC (Ret) on the history of the Southern Maryland Railroad.

Black and white photograph showing Church Street in North Adams. Houses line either side of the dirt road.

Clipping of a sketch of the mess halls for the Chinese strikebreakers at the Sampson Shoe Mill.

This is a clipping publicizing the Weber Brothers Shoe Factory.