Gross, Laurence F. (Author)
IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology
Volume: 7
Issue: 1
Pages: 15-26
The author argues that industrial archeology can make significant contributions to the historical record by providing new and detailed information with which we can evaluate and amend previous interpretations in the history of technology, labor, and business, and on the basis of which we can explore new areas in American history, such as the history of the inarticulate, the workers, and others. To illustrate how artifacts can be used, the author uses a mid-19th-century woolen mill, located in Lawson, Missouri and built in 1861 by Waltus Watkins. The mill holds the finest collection of textile machinery in situ in North America and thus provides a great deal of information, otherwise unavailable, on the techniques, difficulties, and achievements of Watkins, his suppliers, and his employees. [1982 Norton Prize winner]
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