Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time; (1911)
Brown, John Howard, 1840-1917, Foster, E. Everton, Norris, Edith Mary, b. 1858 · Boston, Mass., James H. Lamb company · leaf 107
ith fibres otherthan cotton. The quantity of yarn and thread imported into the Philippinesis steadily increasing. In 1903, it amounted to $641,164, and in 1906 hadrisen to $1,092,563. Yarn and thread are classed together, so it is impossibleto particularize as to the quantity of each, but yarn… … — t: o OF THE UNITED STATES 77 COMBING AND CARDING The hand-combing and carding of wool and cotton must of necessityhave been one of the primal domestic arts, since without it there couldhave been no weaving of cloth. The operation is, in fact, pictured uponthose earliest records of the industry…
Textile industry -- United States · Industrialists
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