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Format
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Book
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Author
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 Field, Jacqueline.
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Title
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American silk, 1830-1930 : entrepreneurs and artifacts / Jacqueline Field, Marjorie Senechal, Madelyn Shaw.
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Publisher
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Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech University Press, c2007.
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Physical Descrip.
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xxiv, 326 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
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Series
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Costume Society of America series
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Bibliography
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-306) and index.
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Abstract
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"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.
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Subject(s)
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Silk industry -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Silk industry -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Other Author(s)
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Senechal, Marjorie.
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Shaw, Madelyn.
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ISBN
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0896725898 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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9780896725898 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Owned By
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AC Frost Library
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Owned By
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SC Neilson Library
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Owned By
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UM Integrated Sci & Eng Lib
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