Mill Girl from Manchester?

This is a stunning and lovely carte de visite of a young woman taken during the 1860s by "A.W. Kimball, Photographer, 244 Elm Street, Manchester, N.H." This is one those pictures which the advertisement appeared on the back of the image. I acquired this one from my friend Marti Jones, ironically, in Manchester only yesterday! Who this pretty lady was remains a mystery, but it's very possible she worked as an "operative", as they were called back then, at the Amoskeag Mills in New Hampshire. During the Civil War period (1861-1866), Southern cotton used to produce cloth became very scarce, so the company's foundry made over 27,000 rifled miskets and 6,892 Lindner carbines. Following the war, the country's rapid industrialization continued, with Manchester becoming a textile manufacturing center far larger than its namesake back in England. Company engineers built more factories, lining both sides of the Merrimack River. Mill No. 11 was the world's largest cotton mill, 900 feet long, 103 feet wide, and containing 4000 looms! Amoskeag peaked by World War I, supplying the Federal government with massive quantities of fabric. It employed up to 17,000 workers in 74 textile departments, with 30 mills weaving 50 miles of cloth per hour. The company eventually succumbed during the Great Depression, and today the mills have been restored to their former glory, as a home for businesses, museums, and restaurants. Was this young woman one of the thousands of workers to arrive from all over New England to work in the famous mills of Manchester? It's certainly possible.