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 578
they have become one of the largest textile millplants in the United States. When the additions now in progress arecompleted, the floor area in the Lawrence plant alone will exceed one hun-dred acres. The purpose of the organization was to produce ladies dress goodsfrom wool wholly, from cotton… … OF THE UNITED STATES 437 under a low tariff, English-printed calicoes and printed delaines werelargely in competition with home products, and the contest for supremacywas sharp, and in the end a victory for the New England factories. Through the panic of 1857 and the difficulties of war times the…
Textile industry -- United States · Industrialists
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