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Description
The buildings of three different companies in the textile industry crowded the banks of the Saco River in Biddeford and Saco.
In Biddeford the far left belonged to the Laconia Company, textile manufacturers; the buildings grouped in the center belonged to the Saco Water Power Machine Shops, who built machinery used by the mills. On the right of the river and falls was Saco's Factory Island, the building on the far right was part of the York Mills, another textile manufacturer.
About This Item
- Title: Textile industry companies on the falls, Biddeford and Saco, 1890
- Creation Date: circa 1890
- Subject Date: circa 1890
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Locations:
- Biddeford, York County, ME
- Saco, York County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 20 cm x 25 cm
- Local Code: 1506
- Collection: General Image Collection
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Buildings--Maine--Biddeford
- Foundries--Maine--Biddeford
- Laconia Company
- Laconia Mills
- Machine shops--Maine--Biddeford
- Pepperell Manufacturing Company
- Pepperell Mills
- Saco River (N.H. and Me.)
- Saco-Lowell Foundry
- Textile industry--Maine--Biddeford
- Textile industry--Maine--Saco
- Textile machinery
Other Keywords
- Laconia Company
- Laconia Mills
- Pepperell Manufacturing Company
- Pepperell Mills
- Saco and Pettee Machine Shops
- Saco Water Power Machine Shops
- Saco-Lowell Foundry
- Saco-Lowell Shops
- Saco-Pettee
- Textile machinery
- York Mills
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McArthur Public LibraryPO Box 346, Biddeford, ME 04005
(207) 284-4181
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