The U.S. Mint is unveiling a brand-new quarter honoring Lowell National Historical Park and featuring a "mill girl" working at a power loom in Massachusetts.
"The image, which will be seen on the "tails" side of the 25-cent coin, depicts "a mill girl working at a power loom with its prominent circular bobbin battery," the mint said.
A view of Lowell, including the historic Boott Mill clock tower, is seen through the window. Inscriptions on the coin are: "LOWELL," "MASSACHUSETTS," "2019," and "E PLURIBUS UNUM."
According to park officials, the "circular part of the loom, the Northrop automatic bobbin changer, was one of the great innovations in machine technology that changed the experience of textile factory work in the early 20th century."
They add that the clock tower "reminds of the shift from pre-industrial time based on the rhythms of the natural world to the 'on the clock' time of the industrial revolution."
The so-called "mill girls" worked in the Lowell plant during the Industrial Revolution and many were daughters of New England farmers.
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