Cloth Dressing! -- [Rapid Rise of Cloth Manufacturing in 1850s New England]

Houlton, Maine: Theo Cary, 1859. Toned, short tears, water stain to foot. Modern tape repairs to verso.. Printed broadside promoting new manufacturing equipment at Cary's Mills in Houlton, Maine, including a "fitted up apparatus for cloth dressing and dyeing" and a "fulling mill" for making cloth. Nathaniel Bodwell (b. c.1800) ran the mill. Important ephemeral evidence of the rapid rise in industrial cloth production in New England in the 1850s.

Printed broadside (14.5" by 11.75"), verso blank.