The Stevens Linen Works Historic District encompasses a 19th-century factory complex associated with the manufacturing of linen and flax fabric in Dudley...
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Dudley, Massachusetts (section Historic places)
Technical High School (grades 9–12). Black Tavern (1803) Stevens Linen Works Historic District James Blood, Civil War officer and Victoria Woodhull's second...
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National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) designated in Worcester County, Massachusetts. The locations of NRHP properties and districts for which the latitude...
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History of Dundee (section Linen)
later be used to found the Technical Institute. Another major linen works was Stobswell Works in Dura Street which was built in the 1860s. It was originally...
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The John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site is the birthplace and childhood home of John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States. The...
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Guardian Building (category Historic district contributing properties in Michigan)
the bank's offices and his attention went as far as designing tableware, linens and waitress uniforms for a restaurant in the building. The building's three...
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Ford Piquette Avenue Plant (category Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in Michigan)
owned it until 2000.: 23 Since the early 1990s, a company named General Linen & Uniform Service has occupied part of the Piquette Avenue Plant's first...
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Guildford (section Eastern districts)
of cloth, which was subsidised by the foundation's endowments. Initially linen was woven, but from 1638 wool was produced instead. In 1656, the trustees...
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Geisha (section Geisha districts)
geisha, but the district is still not considered to be an active hanamachi. Hanamachi (花街, lit. 'flower town') The district where a geisha works, is affiliated...
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Dundee (redirect from City of Dundee (local government district, Tayside region))
Dundee Heritage Trust (1998), Verdant Works, Derby: The Pilgrim Press Durie, Alastair J. (1979), The Scottish linen industry in the eighteenth century,...
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about 65 historic textile mills remaining in the city, as well as other related structures. Many have been added to the National Register of Historic Places...
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Ellis Island (category Historic districts in Manhattan)
supervised by Ebenezer Stevens. The military conflict also failed to occur, and by 1805, the fort had become rundown. Stevens, who observed that the Ellis...
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County Cavan (section Former districts)
with them better farming methods and the beginnings of a thriving flax and linen industry. Some areas of Cavan were hard hit by the Great Famine potato blight...
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A. T. Stevens, Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada, Textile Museum (1st ed.). Washington, D.C.: Pomegranate. p. 132. ISBN 0-87654-897-4. OCLC 33947597. Stevens, Rebecca...
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List of United States post office murals (category Public Works of Art Project)
(October 17, 1993). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Louisville Commercial Historic District". National Park Service. Retrieved November...
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Hector Guimard (section Early works)
Guimard, was an orthopedist, and his mother, Marie-Françoise Bailly, was a linen maid. His parents married on 22 June 1867. His father became a gymnastics...
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liquidation. The smaller Taymouth Linen works were opened in 1867 to the west of Panmure Works and the Vitriol Works, and at its height contained 100 power...
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Grace Kelly (section Works)
the now-defunct bed linen brand. The collaboration was titled GPK after the initials of her maiden name and features bed linens, tablecloths, napkins...
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Game Collection Edition (Wooden Book Shelf) Vintage Bookshelf Edition (Linen) Zapped Edition 007 Edition 007: 50th Anniversary Edition (Skyfall) 007:...
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Mountainside, and — most important of all — making beautiful works out of wool and linen, threads and fibers, beads and sequins." Lyons, Richard D. "President...
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William “Bill” Kartsonis (District 4, Lake Winnebago) – Manager of Linen Supply Company Daniel Wesley Hall, PhD (District 5, Lee's Summit) – Public Service...
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In 1855 it was presented to the US Naval Academy. In 1913 it received a linen backing during preservation treatments by Amelia Fowler, who would also...
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United States: Including Sketches and Notices of Cotton, Woolen, Silk, and Linen Manufacturers in the Colonial Period. Vol. I. pg. 97. The Riverside Press...
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gains in productivity also occurred in spinning and weaving of wool and linen, but they were not as great as in cotton. Steam power – the efficiency of...
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Charles Dickens (section Works)
shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen". Dickens's second novel, Oliver Twist (1839), shocked readers with its...
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Bothell, Washington (section Historic preservation)
Health Commission (Snohomish County Public Hospital District No. 2), which formerly operated Stevens Hospital (now Swedish Health Services Edmonds). Bothell...
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merchants dealt in slave-produced cash crops such as sugar, tobacco, cotton and linen. From 1717 to 1766, Scottish slave ships operating out of Glasgow transported...
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Packhofstrasse 11–13. The Jewish company Hundert &/ Co., which traded in linen and cotton goods and had a branch at Hainstrasse 5, also had its headquarters...
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Frederick Douglass (category District of Columbia Recorders of Deeds)
in the fire and eat. That boy did not wear pants like you do, but a tow linen shirt. Schools were unknown to him, and he learned to spell from an old...
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(PHPR) The Stevens House built in 1901 (PHPR) The Bouvier Teeter House built in 1899 (PHPR) The Thomas House was built in 1909. (PHPR) The Stevens-Haugsten...
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