Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

'The Way We Worked'

A lot has changed in the American workplace over the last 150 years. Drawing from the National Archives, this traveling Smithsonian Institution exhibit uses historical photos, film, audio and interactive components to examine the effects of industrialization, urbanization, immigration, labor unrest, wars and economic depression on Americans. Each organization that has hosted the exhibit is encouraged to enhance it with displays on local history. To that end, AVA Gallery and Art Center in the old mill town of Lebanon, N.H., is showing portraits of former H.W. Carter & Sons factory workers by Vermont photographer Jack Rowell. Through January 27. Pictured: “Follensbee 2012” by Rowell.