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American silk, 1830-1930 : entrepreneurs and artifacts
- Title
- American silk, 1830-1930 : entrepreneurs and artifacts / Jacqueline Field, Marjorie Senechal, Madelyn Shaw.
- Author
- Field, Jacqueline.
- Publication
- Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech University Press, c2007.
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- Description
- xxiv, 326 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 25 cm.
- Summary
- "Traces the American silk industry, once the world's largest, through case studies of the Nonotuck (Northampton, Massachusetts), Haskell (Westbrook, Maine), and Mallinson (New York and Pennsylvania) silk companies. Examines entrepreneurs as well as history of technology and products from sewing-machine thread to mass-produced plain and high-fashion silks"--Provided by publisher.
- Series Statement
- Costume Society of America series
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-306) and index.
- Call Number
- JBE 07-762
- ISBN
- 0896725898 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780896725898 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006014189
- OCLC
- 68786671
- Author
- Field, Jacqueline.
- Title
- American silk, 1830-1930 : entrepreneurs and artifacts / Jacqueline Field, Marjorie Senechal, Madelyn Shaw.
- Imprint
- Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech University Press, c2007.
- Series
- Costume Society of America series
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-306) and index.
- Added Author
- Senechal, Marjorie.Shaw, Madelyn.
- Research Call Number
- JBE 07-762