 | Horace Greeley - Industries - 1872 - 1318 pages
...business which was followed in Dedham, Wrentham, Providence, and other New England towns, and elsewhere. In the Transactions of the Rhode Island Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Manufactures, for 1858, is an account of Mrs. Baker's labors in this direction, and in the society's... | |
 | U.S. Government, Washington D.C. - 1874 - 512 pages
...labor they should be sown on cotton-laud previously to plowing the cotton the last time. RHODE ISLAND. The transactions of the Rhode Island Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Industry for the year 1872 are briefly given in a pamphlet of 172 pages. The first fair and exhibition of this... | |
 | Michigan State Library - 1874 - 660 pages
...Proceedings of the 2d Annual meeting of the National Board of Trade, helJ in Richmond. Dec., 1869. Unbound 1 Transactions of the Rhode Island Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Industry in 1867. Unbound 1 Annual Exhibit of the Manufacturing and Commercial Industry of the City of Minneapolis,... | |
 | New England - 1862 - 432 pages
...their descendants. The work is issued in bi-monthly numbers of about 50 pages each, at $2 per annum. Transactions of the Rhode. Island Society for the encouragement of Domestic Industry, in tht. year 1860. Providence: 1861. 8vo. pp.96. A meeting of the above named society was held in the... | |
 | Amos Perry - Electronic books - 1883 - 134 pages
...imparted to all its members additional interest and activity in its affairs. Mr. Allen became a member of the Rhode Island Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Industry, in 1824, and had outlived all of his associates of that period. He always manifested an interest in the... | |
 | Ephriam Orcutt Jameson - Medway (Mass. : Town) - 1886 - 586 pages
...have its history stated in full in the volume of the Transactions of the Society. The committee find in the Transactions of the Rhode Island Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Industry for the year 1858, pages 155 to 167, a ' Sketch of the rise of Straw Braiding for Ladies' Hats and... | |
 | Rhode Island - 1888 - 490 pages
...Island waters and by parties native?, or then living in the State. These extracts Avere iirst p'ublished in the " Transactions of the Rhode Island Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Industry, 1858, 18(51." The matter was collected and arranged by the Hon. Elisha Dyer, the President of the Society.... | |
 | William R. Bagnall - Industrialists - 1893 - 748 pages
...Perez Peck, who was employed as a machinist in building the first machines for the company, published in the " Transactions of the Rhode Island Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Industry " for 1864, pp. 79, 80 : — " We built and completed some cards, drawing, roping, and two spinning... | |
 | Henri Clouzot, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) - Textile fabrics - 1927 - 238 pages
...cotton weaves; works devoted to the production of fast dyes were also in operation. In a letter quoted in the Transactions of the Rhode Island Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Industry, the writer speaks of a "coloring business" that was carried on in Pawtucket in 1805-1806 by the Merry... | |
 | 1928 - 588 pages
...active part in the organthe mother of E derives the middle part of her maiden ization and proceedings of the Rhode Island Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Industry. In 1824, with his son. William, he published The Farmer's Guide, "a comprehensive work on husbandry and... | |
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This explanation is simple justice to western cultivators, whose knowledge of the culture seems impugned in the transactions of the Rhode Island Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Industry... 
