The Biddeford Mills Museum has recently loaned several artifacts from museum archives to the University of Southern Maine’s Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education for a new exhibition, “Industry, Wealth, and Labor: Mapping New England’s Textile Industry.” Biddeford Museum archivist, David Bishop, participated in the panel discussion at the exhibit opening on Nov. 17.
Inspired by the map library’s recent acquisition of a collection of textile mill insurance plans and historic maps from the American Textile History Museum, this exhibition addresses the temporal, geographic, and demographic components of New England’s cotton textile industry from the early 19th century until the middle of the 20th century.
This exhibition was curated by Roberta Ransley-Matteau, MA, cataloguer for the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, and Ron Grim, PhD, curator of Maps Emeritus at the Norman B. Leventhal Map and Education Center at the Boston Public Library.
Industry, Wealth, and Labor will be on view at the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education through June 30.
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