| Disaster in Lawrence: The Fall of the Pemberton Mill Contributor(s): Oickle, Alvin F. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1596295066 ISBN-13: 9781596295063 Publisher: History Press OUR PRICE: $19.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2008 Annotation: The destruction was unimaginable. Workers in nearby factories watched with horror as the Pemberton Mill buckled and then collapsed, trapping more than six hundred workers, many of them women and children. Word of the disaster spread quickly and volunteers rushed to the scene. As survivors called out for help, a lantern fell, and within minutes fire engulfed the building, burning those trapped inside. It took days for rescuers to complete the grim task of removing the charred bodies of the dead. Alvin F. Oickle's riveting account illustrates why, nearly a century and a half later, the Pemberton collapse is still considered one of the worst industrial calamities in American history. |
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| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - New England (ct, Ma, Me, Nh, Ri, Vt) - Nature | Natural Disasters - Photography | Subjects & Themes - Historical |
| Dewey: 974.450 |
| LCCN: 2008016091 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6.7" W x 9.6" (0.75 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Massachusetts - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 |
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Contributor Bio(s): Oickle, Alvin F.: - Alvin Oickle is the author of two other recent "disaster books" from The History Press: Disaster in Lawrence: The Fall of the Pemberton Mill and Disaster at Dawn: The Cedar Keys Hurricane of 1896. His other nineteenth-century history books include Jonathan Walker: The Man with the Branded Hand. Al has been an Associated Press feature writer, a daily newspaper editor and a writing instructor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His long career in journalism has also extended into broadcasting. |