Dublin Core
Title
US Print Cloth Production by Region, 1889-1939
Description
This simplified chart from US Census data shows how dramatically the location of cotton manufacturing in the US shifted from New England to the Southern states. There were several causes, including proximity to cotton fields, newer machinery, and lower wages for workers.<br />
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The Perry Knitting Company was a relative anomaly during this period, hanging on while most northern textile production relocated or went out of business. But even during the firm's heyday it's clear that economic trends were running another direction.
Creator
Smith, Thomas Russell
Cooper, Ken
Cooper, Ken
Date
1944
Contributor
Cooper, Ken
Source
Thomas Russell Smith, The Cotton Textile Industry of Fall River, Massachusetts: A Study of Industrial Localization (1944) p. 84
Format
jpeg, 108 KB
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Digital graph