Description: Antique TRADE CATALOGUE 1924 Textile Mills ADVERTISING Women's Work FACTORY TOWNS PACIFIC MILLS ARE THE LARGEST MANUFACTURERS IN THE WORLD OF COTTON GOODS, PRINTED — DYED —BLEACHED & WORSTED DRESS GOODS, COTTON — WARP and ALL — WOOL. With Manufacturing Plants Located in Lawrence, Massachusetts, Dover, New Hampshire, Columbia and Lyman, South Carolina. Published by Pacific Mills, Boston, Massachusetts, 1924. First Edition. Hardbound, original Publishers navy blue cloth with gilt embossed Pacific Mills logo and verticle line on the front and rear covers, 11” x 8.75”, navy blue endpapers, 123 pages, handsomely illustrated with 41 full page black & white photographs, 2 double page, and 18 full page color photos. VERY GOOD CONDITION: covers have light wear to the extremities, a few tiny droplet spots, and light foxing to the page edges, internally a touch of age toning, and light wear, overall a handsome, tight, bright, clean and unmarked example of this uncommon advertising promotional portrait. A curated and sophisticated glimpse at Pacific Mills, one of America’s largest textile producers of the early 20th century. Showcasing aerial photographs of the enormous factories and what occurs within them to descriptions of the factory towns equipped with electric lights, running water and sanitary plumbing, also photographs of the huge machines and of the women and men who tend them, overviews of the textile products, and the manufacturing processes of the cotton and wool from gathering, picking and shearing to the finished packaged fabric. Lawrence Massachusetts was named for the founder of Pacific Mills, Abbott Lawrence. Interestingly the wealth accumulated by this northern industrialist is integrally tied to slave labor by depending on cotton harvested on southern plantations. Click Here to View More Gardenenvy Items Please click here to contact me if you have any questions SHIPPING by Media Mail is for US destinations only. INTERNATIONAL BUYERS Please See Calculated Shipping Costs For Your Country. Media Mail (though reliable) can be VERY SLOW -- Priority Mail is also available. THANK YOU!!
Price: 225 USD
Location: San Anselmo, California
End Time: 2024-12-15T03:49:15.000Z
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: Boston, Massachusetts
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated, 1st Printing
Author: Pacific Mills [Textiles] [Manufacturing] [Factory Towns]
Publisher: Pacific Mills
Topic: Wool & Cotton Manufacturing
Subject: Advertising, Textile Mills, Factory Workers
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1924
