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Pepperell's Progress : History of a Cotton Textile Company, 1844-1945 / Evelyn H. Knowlton.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Harvard Studies in Business History ; 13Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©1948Edition: Reprint 2014Description: 1 online resource (511 p.) : 4 charts; 35 illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674181748
  • 9780674181755
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 677.21065 23
LOC classification:
  • HD9879.P42 K6
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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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

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

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