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- Title
'A PILLAR OF CLOUD BY DAY AND OF FIRE BY NIGHT': A LANDSCAPE STUDY OF THE HARRISBURG NAIL WORKS.
- Authors
LIBBON, JONATHAN
- Abstract
The city of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and the surrounding region rapidly industrialized throughout the late nineteenth century. The close proximity to the natural resources and major east coast markets placed Harrisburg at the forefront of the American industrial revolution. The Harrisburg Nail Works represented one of the largest industrial complexes in the Harrisburg region during this time. The owners of the Harrisburg Nail Works designed a factory system that stressed surveillance and control, and dramatically altered the surrounding landscape to extend the surveillance and control outside of the factory grounds. Understanding how the owners of the Harrisburg Nail Works changed the landscape from space into place can provide insight into overt and covert forms of control utilized by the management of the factory. It can also be a starting point in understanding the community's response to industrialization and how the city and region were shaped in the past, and how the past affects the present and the future.
- Subjects
HARRISBURG (Pa.); HISTORY of industrialization; INDUSTRIAL revolution; NINETEENTH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Pennsylvania Archaeologist, 2015, Vol 85, Issue 2, p2
- ISSN
0031-4358
- Publication type
Article