Photographing the Social Landscape: Lowell Massachusetts

A former mill town, known for its largest river-powered hydraulic system in the nation, site of the world's second corporation (after Waltham Massachusetts), now transformed. Home to many immigrants from the Irish who built the canals to Asians from countries like Cambodia and Vietnam

 

Map of Lowell canal system (1975)

 

photos by skip schiel & teeksa photography

 

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