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Botany 500 was a brand name owned by the Botany 500 Group of New York. Their men's suits and sport coats were manufactured in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by H. Daroff and Sons, who were contracted with Botany Mills of Passaic, New Jersey, to produce products and later bought the firm outright. Their plant was located at 23rd and Walnut Streets ...
John Wanamaker was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1838. Due to a persistent cough, he was unable to join the U.S. Army to fight in the American Civil War, so instead started a career in business. In 1861, he and his brother-in-law Nathan Brown founded a men's clothing store in Philadelphia called Oak Hall.
N. Snellenburg & Company, commonly known as Snellenburg's, was a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based middle-class department store and wholesale clothing manufacturer, established in 1869. The company became the largest clothing manufacturer in the world and at one time employed 3,000.
1880s Fashion Plates of men, women, and children's fashion from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries; 1880s Fashion; From Reforming Fashion, 1850-1914: Politics, Health, and Art, Ohio State University : Olive wool tea gown, 1882; Bustle, corset and combination, 1884-1890; Navy wool tea gown c. 1889; What Victorians Wore: An Overview of ...
Between 1880 and 1925, the value of silk products manufactured in Pennsylvania increased tenfold. At this time, working children were the cheapest form of labor used to maximize profits. In 1876, roughly 30 silk manufacturers opened plants in Pennsylvania largely due to the availability of child labor and the lack of concern for children in the ...
1870s Men's Fashions – c. 1870 Men's Fashion Photos with Annotations; From Reforming Fashion, 1850-1914: Politics, Health, and Art, Ohio State University : Reda silk brocade tea gown, c. 1876; Brown challis tean gown in Liberty of London fabric, c. 1877 "19th Century Women's Fashion". Fashion, Jewellery & Accessories. Victoria and Albert Museum
In 1990, Woolrich let go of half of their 2,600 employees [5] nationwide by then-president S. Wade Judy [14] due to fewer orders. [15] That same year, the company also closed six plants in Pennsylvania , Nebraska and Colorado for about five years and outsourced the work to Mexico, leaving them with about 1,400 employees.
This district includes fifty contributing buildings that are located in the old central business district of Harrisburg. Dating from the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, notable buildings include the Daily and Weekly Telegraph Building (1873-1874), the City Bank Building (c. 1872), F.W. Woolworth (1939), Rothert's Furniture Store (1906), Bowman's Department Store (1907, 1910 ...