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The silk industry in America. A history: prepared for the Centennial Exposition (1876)

Brockett, L. P. (Linus Pierpont), 1820-1893 · [New York Silk Association of America] · leaf 55

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of Brazil.M. de Resende has presented the industry in a most attrac-tive form, showing the 100,000 mulberry trees that constitutehis plantation, and exhibiting the silk-insect in all stages ofits growth and labors. More interesting, however, than eventhis display, is the lively interest which M. de… … IX. Organized Silk Manufacture in America. E HAVE SAID, perhaps, as much as is ap-propriate concerning the domestic manufac-ture of silk, in our account of its early cul-ture. The rulers ol Mexico, in the early yearsof the present century, introduced both theculture of silk and the manufacture of…

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