1913 to 2023
![View of the west facade of the Industry Mill seen from the north, with the Harmony Mill on the left. Industry Mill, Van Houten & Prospect Street, Paterson, Passaic County, NJ View of the west facade of the Industry Mill seen from the north, with the Harmony Mill on the left. Industry Mill, Van Houten & Prospect Street, Paterson, Passaic County, NJ](https://i0.wp.com/www.myleszhang.org/files/2023/07/View-of-the-west-facade-of-the-Industry-Mill-seen-from-the-north-with-the-Harmony-Mill-on-the-left.-Industry-Mill-Van-Houten-Prospect-Street-Paterson-Passaic-County-NJ.jpg?w=318&h=444&ssl=1)
![Phoenix, Harmony, and Industry Mills, south elevations, Great Falls Historic District, Oliver Street, Paterson, Passaic County, NJ Phoenix, Harmony, and Industry Mills, south elevations, Great Falls Historic District, Oliver Street, Paterson, Passaic County, NJ](https://i0.wp.com/www.myleszhang.org/files/2023/07/Phoenix-Harmony-and-Industry-Mills-south-elevations-Great-Falls-Historic-District-Oliver-Street-Paterson-Passaic-County-NJ.jpg?w=624&h=444&ssl=1)
A century later, the mills of Paterson sitting abandoned, their machines silent
A century later, the mills of Paterson sitting abandoned, their machines silent
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Audio testimonies from:
Pauline Newman letter from May 1951, 6036/008, International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union Archives. Cornell University, Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives.
Louis Waldman eyewitness in Labor Lawyer, New York: E.P. Dutton, 1944, pp. 32-33.
Anna Gullo in the case of The People of the State of New York v. Isaac Harris and Max Blanck, December 11, 1911, pp. 362.
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– Horse drawn carriage
– Power loom
– Workplace bell
– Classroom
– Large crowd
– Elevator
– Small fire
– Large fire
– Fire truck bell
– Fire hose
– Dull thud
– Heartbeat
– Closing song: Solidarity Forever by Pete Seeger, 1998
– Closing song: Solidarity Forever by Twin Cities Labor Chorus, 2009
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1. Steven Manson, Jonathan Schroeder, David Van Riper, Tracy Kugler, and Steven Ruggles. IPUMS National Historical Geographic Information System: Version 17.0 [dataset]. Minneapolis, MN: IPUMS. 2022. http://doi.org/10.18128/D050.V17.0
2. Social Explorer. https://www.socialexplorer.com/
Click to launch interactive mapping experience.
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From April 1898 issue of Scientific American
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– Frédéric Rouvillois
Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World [1]
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Black children standing in front of half-mile concrete wall, Detroit, Michigan. This wall was built in August 1941, to separate the Black communities of Royal Oak Township / Eight Mile-Wyoming from a White housing development going up on the other side.
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Lorch Column at Taubman College
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Prudential Headquarters (across the street from Mutual Benefit, also demolished)
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It’s not easy to knock down nine acres of travertine and granite, 84 Doric columns, a vaulted concourse of extravagant, weighty grandeur, classical splendor modeled after royal Roman baths, rich detail in solid stone, architectural quality in precious materials that set the stamp of excellence on a city. But it can be done. It can be done if the motivation is great enough, and it has been demonstrated that the profit motive in this instance was great enough.
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