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MILL TOWNS IN NORTH EASTERN USA

The following four photographs were taken by Randolph Langenbach from 1966 until 1989. 
Unfortunately, most of the images in this series were destroyed in the 1991 Oakland, California Firestorm. 
All were taken with a Linhof Color Kardon 4" x 5" view camera. 

all photographs © by Randolph Langenbach, 1967-78

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1) Merrimack River and Woolen Mills, Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1971

2)  Ayer Mill, from the Pemberton Mill, Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1967

3)  Boott Cotton Mills, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1972                

4)  Durfee Mills, Fall River, Massachusetts, 1970

5)   Harmony Mills Mastodon Mill, Cohoes, New York, 1971

6)  Middle Mill, New York Mills, New York, 1971

7)  Stairway in the Middle Mill, New York Mills, 1971

8)  Silk Mills, Patterson, New Jersey, 1973

9) and 10)  Carding machines in one of the last small textile operations in Lowell, Massachusetts, housed in the former Lowell Manufacturing Company Millyard, 1978

11)  Abandoned millworkers' boarding house, Killingly, Rhode Island, 1972

12)  Abandoned Woolen Mill, Ashaway, Rhode Island, 1976    

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