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<ul><li><b>Scope and content:</b>  Mt. Holyoke, Massachusetts - Scenes. A Holyoke firm in steel plate fabrication since 1888, now in process of re-organization; bought in from the original founders by a superintendent, now in the hands of the son; the morning after big snow in upper Vermont rolls out and starts North for delivery great snowplows marked Holyoke All Steel. A second Holyoke firm, grey iron foundry and machine shop, antecedent to paper industries, once made water wheels now buys electric power. Business still in hands of the founders" sons. French Canadian locality, showing one tenement. The site of the first French Canadian Church (1869) wiped out by a conflagration which burned seventy-five people at vespers and made heroes of priests and firemen; replaced in 1875 with this edifice, convent and school; open at dusk when a machinist leaving the day shift can stop for prayers. Walsh Holyoke Steam Boiler Works. Jolly, Inc. - Church of the Precious Blood.</li></ul></div>
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Lewis_Hine" class="extiw" title="w:en:Lewis Hine"><span title="American sociologist and photographer">Lewis Hine</span></a>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._National_Archives_and_Records_Administration" class="extiw" title="en:U.S. National Archives and Records Administration">U.S. National Archives and Records Administration</a>