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From Plant to Blue Jeans
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Arthur John L'Hommedieu |
Describes the process of making blue jeans from the harvesting of cotton through the weaving of cloth and sewing the finished product. |
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The whiskey baron
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Jon Sealy |
"Late one night at the end of a scorching summer, a phone call rouses Sheriff Furman Chambers out of bed. Two men have been shot dead on Highway 9 in front of the Hillside Inn, a one-time boardinghou… |
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The road to Nab End
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William Woodruff |
William Woodruff was only just a teenager when the Great Depression began. 'In The Road To Nab End', he describes the utter hardship of living in Lancashire when no work was available and no work mea… |
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From cotton to pants
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Ali Mitgutsch |
Traces the journey of cotton from the plants, through the cotton gin and the spinning mill where it is made into thread, to the loom where it is woven into cloth, and finally to the clothing factory … |
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Up before daybreak
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Deborah Hopkinson |
In this stunning nonfiction volume, award-winning author Deborah Hopkinson weaves the stories of slaves, sharecroppers, and mill workers into a tapestry illuminating the history of cotton in America.… |
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You Wouldn't Want to Be a Victorian Mill Worker!
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John Malam |
The year is 1842, and you have been taken from your mother in London to work in a cotton mill in smoky Manchester. The work is hard and dangerous: you are likely to go deaf and suffer from lung disea… |
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Cotton spinning companies' accounts
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William Moss, F.C.A. |
ecopy OCLC 9453145 |
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