Cover page features several color illustrations showing a Native American Indian, the Amoskeag Falls, city street, and industrial works.

Photomechanical reproductions of photographs of Manchester (N.H.), with accompanying text.

Includes images of public buildings, fire stations, schools, street views, commercial buildings, factories, hospitals, clubhouses, charitable homes, monuments, parks, Lake Massabesic, recreation, panorama of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company's mills, interior views of mills, hotel, churches, residences, tenements, and playground scenes.

Avery Classics copy: Gift of John Stubbs.