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Title: Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time;
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Brown, John Howard, 1840-1917 Foster, E. Everton Norris, Edith Mary, b. 1858
Subjects: Textile industry -- United States Industrialists
Publisher: Boston, Mass., James H. Lamb company
Contributing Library: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Digitizing Sponsor: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

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s increased in 1855, 1858, 1862 and 1900, to its present amount(1910), $3,000,000, consisting of 3,000 shares of $1,000 each. The original mills and print works were built by the Essex Company,under the direction of Captain Charles H. Bigelow, and in 1882 it wasfound necessary to remodel them in order to bring them up to a standardwhere they could maintain their leading place against the competition ofthe best modern mills. Since then they have been enlarged and addedto from time to time until they have become one of the largest textile millplants in the United States. When the additions now in progress arecompleted, the floor area in the Lawrence plant alone will exceed one hun-dred acres. The purpose of the organization was to produce ladies dress goodsfrom wool wholly, from cotton wholly, and from wool and cotton com-bined. The establishment was to include an aggregation of cotton mills,woolen mills and print works. Their products first appeared in the market in 1854. At that time.
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OF THE UNITED STATES 437 under a low tariff, English-printed calicoes and printed delaines werelargely in competition with home products, and the contest for supremacywas sharp, and in the end a victory for the New England factories. Through the panic of 1857 and the difficulties of war times the com-pany has passed unscathed, though at times hard pressed, while many ofthe largest and strongest mills and merchants were crippled. The Pacific fabrics have won popularity through their excellence asto style, quality and durability, and probably no mill is so well knownthroughout the country at large as the Pacific Mills. Its chief cotton prod-ucts are mousselines, chambrays, lawns, organdies, challies, draperies,satines and crepes. The worsted products are poplins, alpacas, cashmeres,henriettas, serges, brocades and diagonals. The product of the mills in1861 was about 11,000,000 yards; in 1865, 45,000,000 yards; in 1906,100,000,000 yards, and in 1910 about 150,000,000 yards. There were no

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