American Paper Mills, 1690-1832: A Directory of the Paper Trade, with Notes on Products, Watermarks, Distribution Methods, and Manufacturing TechniquesUnprecedented in size and scope, this directory describes more than 500 paper mills on the basis of census records, archival sources, local histories, and watermark evidence. It traces economic developments and technological changes in the American paper trade from the colonial period to the industrial era, with special reference to its close connections with the printing business, which depended on local sources of supply for newsprint, book paper, and plate paper for engraved illustrations. Newly discovered and reattributed watermarks make it possible to identify these products and provide a more reliable means of dating and localizing works on paper. This fully documented survey of paper mills also contains biographical information about members of the trade and a succinct history of papermaking in America with essays on manufacturing methods, mechanization, business practices, and distribution networks. Among the illustrations in this volume are hitherto unrecorded woodcut and engraved views of manufactories, used in the packaging art of that period. |
Contents
Acknowledgments | vii |
Abbreviations and Sources | ix |
Introduction | xxv |
1 Pennsylvania | 1 |
2 Massachusetts | 85 |
3 New Jersey | 135 |
4 Maine | 157 |
5 Virginia | 162 |
13 Delaware | 263 |
14 Kentucky | 275 |
15 District of Columbia | 284 |
16 South Carolina | 286 |
17 Ohio | 288 |
18 Tennessee | 296 |
19 West Virginia | 299 |
20 Georgia | 301 |
6 Rhode Island | 166 |
7 Connecticut | 171 |
8 New York | 196 |
9 Maryland | 224 |
10 North Carolina | 236 |
11 New Hampshire | 239 |
12 Vermont | 248 |
21 Indiana | 302 |
Wholesale Stationers and Paper Merchants | 305 |
| 313 | |
| 331 | |
| 335 | |
| 337 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
advertised American Antiquarian Society annual output Baltimore Bidwell Boston Brandywine Carey Papers Census of 1820 Chester County Conn countermark County Coxe Creek cylinder machine demy double cap employed ences engines establishment fleur-de-lis foolscap foreman Fourdrinier Fourdrinier machine Gazette George Gilpin Gravell & Miller grist mill History hunter James John laid ledgers manufacture Mass Mclane Report medium vellum n.J. Mill nYhS one-vat mill operated paper mill paper trade papermaking business partner partnership Pennsylvania Phelps & Spafford Philadelphia posthorn printed doc printer proprietors purchased moulds ream wrapper reel References River Samuel saw mill Scheetz sell Sellers firm Sellers letter Book Sellers Moulds Finished Sellers Moulds ordered Sellers order Book Sept sheet Stedman Stephen Vail super royal Thomas tons of rags Township vats vellum watermark willcox william william Rittenhouse women wove wrappings writings York