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| The Industrial Age changed the New England
landscape in the late 1800s, and scientific
thought applied to everyday life transformed
events as small as preparing the evening meal.
More people living in cities, new machines for
doing the work in all aspects of life, and the
chance to make a profit imposed new pressures
on the old ways of producing, delivering, and
using cows’ milk. |
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Sheafe Street,North End, Boston,
Massachusetts (above, right)
From Bulletin of the North Bennet Street
Industrial School, Boston, 1921-22
Courtesy of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
Making-up Room, Lawrence Hosiery
Mill, Lowell, Massachusetts, circa 1865 (above)
Photograph by S. Towle
Courtesy of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
Although some of the people living in tenements and
working long hours in factories may have farmed before
they came to the cities, they now had no time or place to
produce their own foods. They bought what they needed
with their wages. |
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| MILK FOR THE CITY |
| Industrialization, trade, and
commerce led to growth in
New England’s factory towns and
seaports, attracting both rural
New Englanders and foreign
immigrants seeking work.Thanks
to mechanization, population
growth, and new sources of power
like electricity and gasoline, the
trend toward urbanization took
over.One thing didn’t change,
however — people needed food,
no matter where they might
live and work.Dairying had to
mechanize and solve problems
of delivery and spoilage in order
to bring milk products into
new markets. |
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