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Textile industry

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

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Professor Anthony C.F. Wallace collection of student papers on Eddystone Manufacturing Company

 Collection
Accession: 2762
Abstract:

Anthony C.F. Wallace (1923-2015) was an anthropology professor at the University of Pennsylvania between 1951 and 1988. The Eddystone Manufacturing Company operated a cotton prints factory in Eddystone, Pennsylvania. The company was founded, owned, and operated by the Simpson family until 1929. This small collection consists of student papers written for the course Anthropology 703 Cultural Change in the Industrial Revolution. The papers all focus on the history of the Eddystone Manufacturing Company or the Simpson family and were written in the spring of 1986.

Dates: 1986