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BOLLES, ALBERT S - Industrial History of the United States, from the Earlies Settlements to the Present Time: Being a Complete Survey of American Industries

Title: Industrial History of the United States, from the Earlies Settlements to the Present Time: Being a Complete Survey of American Industries
Description: Norwich, CT: The Henry Hill Publishing Co, 1881. Hardcover. Leather binding, rubbing at the corners and edges, nameplate on endpaper, along with Library of Wm. R. Copp, Cornish, ME sticker. Spine cover is cracked and loose, separated from the spine, piece at the bottom edge is missing. Back hinge is in good condition, front hinge is slightly cracked. 936 pages. Book has 7 sections - Books 1-7 including Agriculture and Horticulture; Manufactures; Shipping and Railroads; Mines and Mining and Oil; Banking, Insurance and Commerce; Trade-Unions and Eight-Hour Movement, The Industries of Canada. Copiously illustrated with about 300 engravings. Full title includes Embrasing Agriculture and Horticulture, including the cultivtion of Cotton, Tobacco, Wheat, Raising of Horses, Neat-Cattle, etc; All the important Manufactures, Shipping and Fisheries, Railrods, Mines and Shipping and Fisheries, Railroads, Mines and Mining, and Oil; Also a History of the Coal-Miners and the Molly Maguires; Banks, Insurance and Commerce, Trade-Unions, Strikes and Eight-Hour Movement. Some of the interesting illustrations include Sugar-Making In Louisiana in 1751 (using African slaves) ; Iron and Steel Manufacture; Porcelain Plate, Wason Car-Factory, Allston, MA; full page picture of Shipping on the Delaware; etc. Poor .

Keywords: Industries -- United States -- History Economic History Agriculture -- History Colonial American History Sugar-Making in Louisiana Shipping and Railroads Mines and Mining Fisheries Canada Industry History

Price: US$ 90.00 Seller: Bookshop Baltimore
- Book number: 23702

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