The Amsterdam Board of Trade (precursor to the Chamber of
Commerce) published an annual report with a member list, description of
manufacturing companies and numerous ads devoted to the industrial trades
of Amsterdam. Businessmen, company names and products can all be queried.
You may not know the terms shoddy, noils or
mercerized,
but you can find out who made them or sold them.
See photos of all the Mills of Amsterdam and of the
leading industrialists that made Amsterdam famous world-wide
for carpets and brooms... Sanford, Blood, Shuttleworth, Dean and more...
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