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Eastern National Museum Store

Eastern National aids and promotes the historical, scientific, and educational activities of the National Park Service. As a nonprofit cooperating association authorized by Congress, it makes interpretive material available to Park visitors for sale and/or free distribution.

Ordering Information

Order Form (PDF format - 29K)


Featured Items

Lowell, The Story of an Industrial City; Division of Publications, National Park Service, 111 pages. A complete guide to Lowell National Historical Park and and its resources - $7.50

Boott Towel* - $3.50 each or 3 for $10.00

Unfinished Toweling* - $1.95 per yard

(only sold by the yard)

*The toweling is woven in the Weave Room Exhibit in the Boott Cotton Mills Museum.


Teacher Materials

Farm to Factory; Lowell Industrial Learning Experience; 28 pages. A curriculum guide developed jointly by Lowell National Historical Park and the Tsongas Industrial History Center, this guide has activities and background information suitable for teachers and students (4th and 5th grades) - $5.95

The Worker's Remember; Video (33 min.). A series of four oral history video programs featured in the Boott Cotton Mills Museum - $9.95

My Backyard History Book; Weitzman, 128 pages. Projects to do with grandparents, old time music, making time capsules, and more - $10.95

Americans Too!; Aten, 76 pages. Understanding American minorities through research related activities - $8.95

Women in History; Aten, 140 pages. Discovering America’s famous women through research related activities - $12.95

Portfolio - Votes for Women; The Fight for Suffrage; Jackdaw Kit, Portfolios of primary source materials focusing on the fight for suffrage - $27.95

Portfolio - Immigration, 1870 - 1930; Jackdaw Kit, Portfolio of Immigration in the Industrial Age - $29.95

Portfolio - The Early Industrialization of America: From Wharf to Waterfall; Jackdaw Kit, Portfolio of primary source materials focusing on the early industrialization of America - $24.95

Ethnic Pride; Lipson and Romatowski, 148 pages. Explorations into your ethnic heritage, cultural information, activities and student research - $12.99


Lowell

Lowell, The Story of an Industrial City; Division of Publications, National Park Service, 111 pages. A complete guide to Lowell National Historical Park and and its resources - $4.95

Loom and Spindle; Robinson, 163 pages. Memoir of Harriet Robinson, a "mill girl," from the age of ten in Lowell, MA - $7.95

Farm to Factory; Ed. by Dublin, 191 pages. A fascinating collection of letters written by the "mill girls" and their families - $16.00

Surviving Hard Times; Blewett, 172 pages. This documents a spirit of resistance to exploitation handed down by the Yankee "mill girls" of the early 19th century to the immigrant workers of Lowell - $8.95

The Continuing Revolution; Ed. by Weible, 430 pages. A history of Lowell, Massachusetts - $28.50

Lowell Then and Now; Lowell Historic Preservation Commission, 108 pages. Chronicles the historic preservation effort in Lowell during the late 1970s and early 1990s using photographs documenting the rehabilitation of Lowell's historic structures - $9.95

Lowell Views; Lowell Historical Society, 24 pages. A collection of 19th century prints, paintings and drawings featuring Lowell - $3.00

That Was The Way It Was; M. Shell, 168 pages. A selection of C. Sampas’ Lowell History columns from the Lowell Sun - $12.50

The Bend in the River; Pendergast, 85 pages. An intriguing prehistory of the Lowell area - $14.95

The Last Generation; Blewett, 330 pages. Winner of the New England Association of Oral History’s Harvey A. Kantor Award. The story of work and life in the textile mills of Lowell, MA - $16.95

Women at Work; Dublin; 312 pages. A history detailing the lives of the first generation of working women in Lowell - $18.00

The Lowell Mill Girls; Life in the Factory; Ed. by Weisman, 47 pages. A collection of essays and historical fiction presenting different perspectives on the history of Lowell’s female operatives in the 1840s - $4.95

Call the Darkness Light; Zaroulis, 560 pages. A novel of a young woman's struggle for independence in the mills of Lowell, MA in the early 19th century - $15.00


Children’s Corner

Lyddie; Patterson, 182 pages. It’s the promise of a new and better life that finally prompts Lyddie to journey to the mill town of Lowell, MA - $3.99

Discover; Grier, 96 pages. Investigate the mysteries of history with forty practical projects probing our past. Great ideas for history projects - $8.95

Invention Book; Carey, 201 pages. From inspiration to prototype, everything you need to know. Features at home projects and invention stories - $9.95

Ellis Island; Stein, 31 pages. Story of immigration told through historic prints and pictures - $4.95

Ox-Cart Man; Hall, 38 pages. Caldecott winner, traces a year on a 19th century New England farm - $4.99

Kids’ America; Caney, 412 pages. Jam- packed with the best activities, projects, tales and legends this country has to offer - $13.95

Diary of an Early American Boy; Sloane, 108 pages. Pictures life on a farm at the turn of the 19th century - $7.95

The American Boy’s Handy Book; Perrin, 441 pages. Copy of the 1882 original. Contains hundreds of ideas for rainy day entertainment - $12.95

The American Girl's Handy Book; Boylan, 474 pages. Copy of 1887 original. Contains hundreds of ideas for rainy day entertainment. - $12.95

Hannah's Fancy Notion; Ross, 55 pages. A story of Industrial New England - $3.99

America at Work: Industrial Revolution; Cobblestone, 48 pages. Stories and projects dealing with immigration - $3.95

Old Sturbridge Village; Cobblestone, 48 pages. Stories and projects dealing with 19th century living - $3.95

American Immigrants, Part 1 & 2; Cobblestone, 48 pages. Stories and projects dealing with American Immigration - $3.95 each

A Gathering of Days; Blos, 144 pages. Newbury award winner. A New England girl’s journal, 1830 - 1832. Young Adult - $3.95

The Cat Who Escaped Steerage; Mayerson, 66 pages. A warm and universal story echoing the experiences of scores of new comers to America - $14.00

Geography for Every Kid; Van Cleave's, 211 pages. Easy activities that make learning geography fun. - $11.95

The History of Labor; Cobblestone, 48 pages. Stories and projects dealing with labor history. - $3.95

Hands Around the World; Milord, 158 pages. Invites children to experience, taste and embrace the daily lives of children from the far corners of the earth - $12.95

Working Union Songs; McNeil, two cassettes. A compilation of songs sung during the U.S. industrial revolution and labor movement from the 1860s to the 1930s - $19.95


To order any of the items listed above, please call the Museum Store at 978-970-5015.


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