Textile Manufacturing 1924 PACIFIC MILLS Antique TRADE CATALOGUE Women’s Work FACTORY TOWNS

PACIFIC MILLS ARE THE LARGEST MANUFACTURERS IN THE WOLRD 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: (truncated) 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. (Inventory #: 2014)