Industrial Philadelphia : from the infant industries of two centuries ago to the giant of today (1912)
Macfarlane, John James, 1846- · [Philadelphia : Foreign Trade Bureau, Philadelphia Commercial Museum] · leaf 13
Britain, settling largely in Kensington, brought about the rapid increase in the manufacture of carpets, more especially ingrain. Today Philadelphia makes more carpets than the whole of Great Britain. In 1904 the value of the carpets made in Philadelphia was $25,233,000, but there was a falling off… … Number in various industries given in thousands total $22,629,000. This was due to the fact that Japanese and other matting was taking the place of the cheaper ingrains which were largely manufactured in Philadelphia. The manu- facturers are now shifting their lines from ordinary ingrain carpets to…
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