WEAVING TAFFETA RIBBONS PATERSON NJ - Underwood & Underwood Glass Plate Negative For Sale

\"WEAVING SOFT TAFFETA RIBBONS, PATERSON, NEW JERSEY\"Paterson, N.J.c.1900-1910
UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD

Rare vintage Glass Plate Negative of ribbon manufacturing plantin the Paterson, N.J. c. 1900-1910

Overall, good condition for its age. No chips or cracks to glass, some soiling to printed boarder. The negative is as shown and has not been cleaned. The details are shown from a higher resolutionlook at various parts of the image. Glass is approximately 4\" by 3 1/4\".

Distributed by Underwood & Underwood. No. 104-11460.HISTORY OF RIBBON MANUFACTURING IN PATERSON.Silk was a relative latecomer in Paterson\'s long industrial history. The city had been established during the great debate of the 1790s between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson and their allies about industrial development. Hamilton encouraged the creation of the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures (S.U.M.), a private corporation that selected the Great Falls of the Passaic as the location for an industrial city in 1792. By 1794 the S.U.M. had completed the first of a series of canals to harness the power of the falls for industrial use. When the first \"manufactory\" failed in 1796, the S.U.M. abandoned manufacturing to become a real estate and energy broker, leasing water power and land to private entrepreneurs, inventors, and industrialists into the post World War II era.
Silk was first manufactured in Paterson in 1840, but did not prosper until after the Civil War, when high tariffs on imported silk products helped American producers compete with their European rivals. Silk manufacturing was a big business before the days of synthetics. Silk, the \"queen of fibers,\" dominated high fashion and the luxury trade, but women at all economic levels wanted their \"best dresses\" to be silk. Paterson had many advantages for the silk trade. It had abundant water supplies for power and processing and good transportation facilities. It also was close to New York City, the center of the fashion industry. Most importantly, Paterson had a supply of workers who understood the peculiar characteristics of the delicate silk fiber. By the 1880s, the city was producing almost half of the silk manufactured in the United States and had earned a nationwide reputation as \"Silk City.\"

ABOUT UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD: At one time, Underwood & Underwood was the largest publisher of stereoviews in the world, producing 10 million views a year. The Underwood brothers developed a selling system of thorough canvassing using college students. They distributed stereographs for Charles Bierstadt, J.F. Jarvis and the Littleton View Company. By 1887, they outgrew their original office in Ottawa and moved to New York City. Offices were also opened in Canada and Europe. In 1891, Bert learned how to operate a camera and thus the firm of Underwood & Underwood Publishing entered a new merchandising sphere. By 1897, the company had a number of full-time staff and free lance photographers. In the same year, the Underwoods purchased the businesses of Jarvis; Bierstadt; and, William H. Rau. Underwood & Underwood was publishing 25,000 stereographs a day by 1901. The firm still canvassed and sold its own stereographs. Around 1900, Underwood & Underwood introduced boxed sets, with specific themes, such as education and religion, and travel sets depicting popular tourist areas of the world. etc.

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