Download the City Life Documents (pdf)

  • Letter from Barilla to Parents, 7.14.1844, excerpt about shopping and friends from home
  • Advertisement for George Tebbets’s store and receipt for Barilla’s jewelry purchase
  • Lithograph view of Merrimack Street, Lowell, 1856
  • Newspaper articles about suicide,
  • Newspaper articles about injury of a mill girl and girls leaving Lowell for home, and Lowell Advertiser
  • “Letters from Susan,” excerpt from The Lowell Offering, 1844