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Title: Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Bolles, Albert Sidney, 1846-1939
Subjects: Industries Industries
Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : The Henry Bill pub. Company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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th of the sense of color in this country.A rich dark wall-paper is wanted now where a whitewashed wall answeredbefore. The old-time white plaster-of-Paris statuette no longer pleases ; but itmust be colored to resemblebronze, or must be of thatopulent metal itself. Thechange in taste and the growthof prosperity have preparedthe way for a sale of realbronze objects. The result isalready seen in the factories.Concerns which formerly pro-duced house-hardware of iron,such as locks, hinges, latches,metal ornaments, &c, havechanged over to bronze. Allhandsome houses are now fur-nished, to a large extent, withbronze metal-work and fasten-ings, as far as the doors andwindows are concerned, thelight-colored bronzes beingpreferred for the purpose.Public buildings and stores have also adopted this style of work. The whole world is astonished anddelighted with the beauty of American bronze hardware, which displays greattaste, and originality of pattern. The manufacturers of clocks, inkstands,
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LAST MOMENTS BEHIND THE SCENES. 348 INDUSTRIAL HISTORY cigar-holders, thermometers, and Yankee notions in general, are also nowflooding the country with, and sending abroad to a certain extent, handsomewares of this popular material. For this class of objects the darker bronzesare used; many of the cheaper pieces, however, being simply of iron, butjapanned to resemble bronze. Purely ornamental bronze-work, such asstatues, vases, pots, trays, &c, are not yet made in America. We arebehind the rest of the world in that respect. Yankee genius loves to pro-duce the useful, giving it a beautiful form; but there is not yet a distinctivedevelopment of that independent passion for the purely beautiful which leadsa people to go largely into the manufacture of exclusively ornamental objects.That will come in time ; in fact, is already coming : but the progress in bronzesis not yet sufficient to be dwelt upon. Bronze busts of eminent men, andstatues for parks and public places, are, however,

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