225.00 USD
This 1921 edition of Davison's Textile Blue Book is an amazing document of American industrial history. The hefty vintage textile industry directory covers all aspects of the trade from cotton, woolen, & silk manufacturers, dyers, merchants, linters, and textile mill supplies. The vintage reference book has a wealth of advertising pages, many of which have illustrations of machinery, mills, and factories.
The vintage directory includes a mill index, railroad list, and six textile maps specifically engraved for Davison.
Maps include:
New York
Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland
Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin
The Southern States
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont
This is a genuine vintage book from 1921 not a recent reprint. The vintage industrial directory shows typical signs of wear for a used reference book as well as evidence of the passage of time. The cover has wear around the edges, scuffs, dings, and soiling. The pages are tanned from age but supple. Front hinge is beginning to weaken. Binding is tight. Pages are clean.
Davison's Textile Blue Book
Mills in United States and Canada
With Textile Supply Directory and Maps
34th Annual July 1921
Davison Publishing Co., New York, 1921
1704 Pages
9 1/4" x 7" x 2 3/4"
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