UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Textile Corporate Histories

INDEX TO COMPANY NAMES AND INDIVIDUALS.

Brocklehurst-Whiston Amalgamated Limited
Hurdsfield Mills
New York Cotton Exchange
Weil Brothers-Cotton Inc.


Bush, George S.     AN AMERICAN HARVEST : The Story of Weil Brothers - 
Cotton.   Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice-Hall, 1982.  338.17351 B978a

A family company which was one of world's largest cotton merchants, buying both on the United States and international markets.

 

Crozier, Mary     AN OLD SILK FAMILY 1745-1945 : The Brocklehursts of Brocklehurst-Whiston Amalgamated Limited.     Aberdeen : The University Press, 1947,
43 pgs.   677.39 C954o

A well researched and illustrated family history including information on the  textile activity in the town of Macclesfield, Great Britain.  At the time of publication, the silk firm was still operating from the same buildings (Hurdsfield Mills) that had been in use for the past 200 years.

 

NEW YORK COTTON EXCHANGE : 1871-1923.  New York : the company, 1923, 42 pgs.   332.6441351 N532n

Vanity publication on the completion of their new building on Hanover Square, New York, New York.  Also includes a short essay on the history of the Cotton Exchange by Robert P McDougall.

 

 
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