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Barbour's flax thread works. Patterson, New Jersey – Vintage Print

Barbour's flax thread works. Patterson, New Jersey, [no date recorded on shelflist card] — historic print
Barbour's flax thread works. Patterson, New Jersey, [no date recorded on shelflist card]. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic print of Barbour's flax thread works. Patterson, New Jersey. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Barbour's flax thread works. Patterson, New Jersey

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This print shows the Barbour flax thread works in Paterson, New Jersey, a mill complex tied to the linen thread trade that the Barbour family brought from Northern Ireland. Paterson's riverside factories, powered by the Passaic River's falls, made the city one of the country's major manufacturing centers in the nineteenth century, and thread mills like this one were among its large employers. The shelflist card links the item to American Photo-Litho Co., a commercial lithography firm, which suggests it was produced as a printed view for business or advertising use. The record does not give a date, so its exact age is unknown.

Created / published[no date recorded on shelflist card]
Medium1 print.
NotesThis record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: American Photo-Litho Co.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,288 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-126917

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