Anne O'Connor

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Learn about the times in America when the immigrant  McNabb family fought the odds to survive. Some of these made the book but all are interesting.

Steamship in Boston Harbor
The steamship Constitution in Boston Harbor. Harper's Weekly, December 9, 1861. author's collection.
St. Peter's Church Lowell
St. Peter’s Church. Lowell Directory 1855 page 247. Pollard Memorial Library, Lowell
1881 map of Lowell
Lowell Map, 1881, Library of Congress, lccn.loc.gov/2011592157
Bridget O'Donnel (Great Irish Famine) Illustrated London News. December 22, 1849
Confluence of Lowell and Concord rivers
Confluence of Lowell and Concord rivers in Lowell
1850 Lowell Bleachery libguides.uml.edu
privy
Back-yard and privies in terribly filthy condition, Providence, Rhode Island. Lewis W. Hines. Library of Congress. lccn.loc.gov/2004660090
locomotive
The Original Train, Boston & Lowell R. R. 1835 from “The Boston and Lowell Railroad, The Nashua and Lowell Railroad, and the Salem and Lowell Railroad,” Francis B. C. Bradlee, Salem, Mass., The Essex Institute, 1918. Courtesy Center for Lowell History, UMass Lowell.
banjo player
Retrospection, Victor G. Schreck, c. 1902. Library of Congress. lccn.loc.gov/2006687460
Washerwoman 1861. Library of Congress. www.loc.gov/pictures /item/2018670712/
big ass raccoon
Honey Island Swamp, Sliddel, Mississippi. Anne O’Connor
Fort Butler Donaldsonville LA
Fort Butler Donaldsonville LA, collection of the author
3rd winchester battle
The Charge of the 8th Vermont at the Battle of Winchester. Alfred R. Waud. www.loc.gov/item/ 2004660090/
Confederate dead
Confederate War Casualties May 19, 1864. Timothy H. O'Sullivan. Library of Congress. lccn.loc.gov/ 2016646715
Civil War train
Unidentified soldiers of Massachusetts Infantry Regiment in Union uniforms with swords on the platforms at Relay House train station on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in Halethorpe, Maryland. EHT Anthony. Library of Congress. lccn.loc.gov/ 2022631765
teapot
McCarthy’s Brown Betty. Photo by Anne O’Connor
medicine bottle
Father John's Medicine, Lowell Mass. Made in U.S.A. author's collection.
Lewis Hine photo, Library of Congress lccn.loc.gov/2018675494
whiskey ad
Lithograph advertisement, Library of Congress www.loc.gov/resource/pga.12390/
newspaper ad
The Lowell Daily Journal and Courier, August 27, 1858, page 3
The Boston Farm School at Thompson's Island 1852 Digital Commonwealth
map
National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Togus, Ma. 1885. A.F. Poole. Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection Boston Public Library
3rd winchester battle
The Charge of the 8th Vermont at the Battle of Winchester. Alfred R. Waud. www.loc.gov/item/ 2004660090/
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