Click image to enlarge The Pemberton Mills disaster...
Show image list »
The Pemberton Mills disaster... - Image 1
The Pemberton Mills disaster... - Image 2
The Pemberton Mills disaster... - Image 3
The Pemberton Mills disaster... - Image 4
The Pemberton Mills disaster... - Image 5
The Pemberton Mills disaster... - Image 6
The Pemberton Mills disaster... - Image 7
The Pemberton Mills disaster... - Image 8
The Pemberton Mills disaster... - Image 9
The Pemberton Mills disaster... - Image 10
The Pemberton Mills disaster... - Image 11
The Pemberton Mills disaster... - Image 12

The Pemberton Mills disaster...

Item # 713904
January 13, 1860
NEW YORK SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE, Jan. 13, 1860  Almost the entire front page is taken up with report on his Pemberton Mills tragedy in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
The first column heads: "HORRIBLE CATASTROPHE!" "Full Particulars" "182 PESONS KILLED" "Hundreds Buried Alive" "Terrible Scenes" "Testimony Taken by the Coroner".
On January 10 a section of the building suddenly collapsed, trapping several hundred workers underneath the rubble, in what has been called "the worst industrial accident in Massachusetts history" and "one of the worst industrial calamities in American history."
Eight pages, nice condition.

Item from our most recent catalog - #366 - released for May, 2026