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Fall River History Topics related to all manner of Fall River’s history.

Fall River History, FRHS Press, Projects

American Textile Colossus: A Definitive History

It is a brilliant book and in my estimation the definitive text on the history of the textile manufacturing industry that was Fall River. The book: American Textile Colossus by Jay J. Lambert. It is,...

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Acquisitions, Collections, Fall River History, New Acquisitions

Franklin Harrison Miller – A Pair of Landscape Paintings

It was a few weeks ago, while scanning the various lots of an online auction catalogue, that I noticed a pair of paintings. The artist’s hand certainly looked familiar – unmistakable, really, and...

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Behind the Scenes, Fall River History, Library & Archive

Building a Biographical Database

The FRHS archival collections contain thousands of bound volumes and several hundred thousand manuscripts, either individual examples or fonds, all pertaining to various aspects of Fall River...

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Fall River History, FRHS Press

Discourses on History, Number 2: Main Street in the Eighteen Seventies and Eighties & A Businessman’s Reminiscences of Fifty Years

At this time last year, I wrote that we were in the process of selecting images to illustrate the second volume in the Discourses on History series, published by the FRHS Press. Indeed, Main Street...

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