Household Manufactures in the United States, 1640-1860: A Study in Industrial HistoryUniversity of Chicago Press, 1917 - 413 páginas |
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Alleghany Alleghany Mountains amount Boston Capita Value Counties carding census cider coarse colonies common Connecticut cotton Delaware dressed early England Essex establishments fact factory-made factures family factory family manufactures farm farmers flax foregoing Franklin fulling-mill Georgia gristmills Hampshire hemp Hist History homemade homespun household manufactures household textile supplies Ibid important industry inhabitants Jefferson Jersey Kentucky kinds labor leather linen linen cloth linsey-woolsey loom manu Maryland Massachusetts materials mills Montgomery necessities North Carolina O.II Ohio output pairs Pennsylvania pioneer plantations Population Per Capita pounds premiums quantity region Rhode Island sections settlements sheep shoemaker shoes slaves South spinning and weaving spinning-wheels spun stockings TABLE XVIII-Continued Total tallow Tennessee TERRITORIES textile manufactures tion Total Valuation Population tow yarn towns trade Value Counties 1840 Virginia Washington wearing apparel weavers wheel women wool woolen cloth XVIII-Continued Total Valuation yards yarn York Ο.ΟΙ
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Página 97 - Indeed, some few hides, with much ado, are tanned and made into servants' shoes; but at so careless a rate, that the planters don't care to buy them if they can get others; and sometimes, perhaps, a better manager than ordinary will vouchsafe to make a pair of breeches of a deer-skin.
Página 133 - Gunpowder. Besides manufactories of these articles which are carried on as regular trades, and have attained to a considerable degree of maturity, there is a vast scene of household manufacturing, which contributes more largely to the supply of the community, than could be imagined, without having made it an object of particular enquiry.
Página 215 - The hominy block and hand mills were in use in most of our houses. The first was made of a large block of wood about three feet long, with an excavation burned in one end, wide at the top, and narrow at the bottom, so that the action of the pestle on the bottom threw the corn up to the sides toward the top of it, from whence it continually fell down into the centre.
Página 258 - I have seen them on the peninsula of Cape Cod, and in the neighbourhood of Lake Erie ; distant from each other more than six hundred miles. They make their way to Detroit, four hundred miles farther ; to Canada ; to Kentucky ; and, if I mistake not, to New-Orleans and St.
Página 62 - Those of cotton will bear some comparison with the same kinds of manufacture in Europe ; but those of wool, flax and hemp are very coarse, unsightly, and unpleasant : and such is our attachment to agriculture, and such our preference for foreign manufactures, that be it wise or unwise, our people will certainly return as soon as they can, to the raising raw materials, and exchanging them for finer manufactures than they are able to execute themselves.
Página 215 - The sweep was sometimes used to lessen the toil of pounding grain into meal. This was a pole of some springy elastic wood, thirty feet long or more ; the butt end was placed under the side of...
Página 103 - I made any inquiry, for every house swarms with children, who are set to work as soon as they are able to Spin and Card, and as every family is furnished with a Loom, the Itinerant Weavers who travel about the Country, put the finishing hand to the Work.
Página 123 - The four southernmost States make a great deal of cotton. Their poor are almost entirely clothed in it in winter and summer. In winter they wear shirts of it, and outer clothing of cotton and wool mixed. In summer their shirts are linen, but the outer clothing cotton. The dress of the women is almost entirely of cotton manufactured by themselves, except the richer class, and even many of these wear a good deal of home-spun cotton. It is as well manufactured as the calicoes of Europe.
Página 97 - The very furs that their hats are made of perhaps go first from thence ; and most of their hides lie and rot, or are made use of only for...
Página 216 - ... sapling, about five or six inches in diameter, and eight or ten feet long. The lower end of this was shaped so as to answer for a pestle. A pin of wood was put through it at a proper height, so that two persons could work at the sweep at once. This simple machine very much lessened the labor, and expedited the work. I remember that, when a boy, I put up an excellent sweep at my father's. It was made of a sugar-tree sapling.
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Marxism and the Metropolis: New Perspectives in Urban Political Economy William K. Tabb,Larry Sawers Visualização de excertos - 1978 |
Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic Jeanne Boydston Pré-visualização indisponível - 1990 |