Items

• 
  Captains Of Industry: Textile Mill Owners And Managers

  Profiles of Connecticut textile mill owners and managers, including William Eliot Barrows's efforts to shape Willimantic society.
• 
  Sewing Revolution: The Machine That Changed America

  The story of Elias Howe's 1846 sewing machine patent and its transformative effect on American clothing manufacture and industrialization.
• 
  William Eliot Barrows

  Thomas R. Beardsley profiles William Eliot Barrows, the Willimantic Linen Company manager who sought to reshape the growing mill community.