Pepperell's Progress : : History of a Cotton Textile Company, 1844-1945 / / Evelyn H. Knowlton.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013] ©1948 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Harvard Studies in Business History ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (511 p.) :; 4 charts; 35 illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- TABLES
- EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION
- AUTHOR’S PREFACE
- PART I. EARLY YEARS, 1844–1870
- CHAPTER I. YANKEES ORGANIZE THE PEPPERELL MANUFACTURING COMPANY
- CHAPTER II. THE COTTON TEXTILE INDUSTRY IN NEW ENGLAND, 1775–1850
- CHAPTER III. PURCHASING COTTON FOR PEPPERELL
- CHAPTER IV. OPERATING THE MILLS IN BIDDEFORD
- CHAPTER V. AN AGENCY HANDLES PEPPERELL’S SALES
- CHAPTER VI. FIRM FINANCIAL FOUNDATION
- PART II. MATURITY, 1870–1924
- CHAPTER VII. HORIZONTA LAND VERTICAL EXPANSION
- CHAPTER VIII. MILL AGENTS CONTINUE ESTABLISHED PRACTICES
- CHAPTER IX. PEPPERELL SELECTS ANOTHER SELLING HOUSE
- CHAPTER X THE TREASURER IN HIS COUNTINGHOUSE
- PART III. REJUVENATION, 1924–1945
- CHAPTER XI. REACHING AMERICAN CONSUMERS
- CHAPTER XII. FIN E GOODS IN THE NORTH
- CHAPTER XIII. COARSE GOODS IN THE SOUTH
- CHAPTER XIV. SUCCESS D U R I N G TROUBLED TIMES
- CHAPTER XV. EPILOGUE
- APPENDICES
- NOTES AND REFERENCES
- INDEX