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Darling Brothers Foundry – Montreal, Canada
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- Flickr – James Schidlowsky
- Quartier Éphémère
Corticelli Sewing Silk – Combined Elasticity & Strength – Chinatown – Montreal, Quebec
Dresses sewn with it never give out at the seams - © Frank H. Jump
Chinatown - Downtown Montreal © Frank H. Jump
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In 1832, Samuel Whitmarsh planted 25 acres (100,000 m2) of mulberry trees in Florence in order to raise silkworms. Later, Whitmarsh’s silk mill (in nearby Leeds, Massachusetts) was briefly run as a communal project by the Northampton Association of Education and Industry, a utopian community of Abolitionists, who believed that the rights of all should be “equal without distinction of sex, color or condition, sect or religion.”
Sojourner Truth, a former slave who became a nationally known advocate for equality and justice, was a member of this community. (She had moved to Florence in 1843.) After the community dissolved in 1846, she bought a house on Park Street, where she lived until 1857. A memorial statue was erected in her honor in Florence in 2002.
Samuel L. Hill, the spiritual leader of the Northampton Association of Education and Industry, invented a machine that could spin silk smooth enough to be used in sewing machines. After the commune dissolved, Hill took over the factory and ran it as the Nonotuck Silk Company. Hill’s home at 31-35 Maple Street in Florence served as a stop for the Underground Railway.
Later, the company changed its name again, and, as the Corticelli Silk Company, grew to be one of the world’s largest producers of silk thread, made with raw silk imported from Japan. In New York City, the Corticelli logo—a kitten playing with a spool of thread—loomed over Broadway from a huge electrical sign at 42nd Street between 1910 and 1913 . The company went out of business in 1930. – Wikipedia
Internet sources:
- Florence, Massachussets – Wikipedia
Pope’s UK Visit Stirs Animosities Old and New
LEEDS, England (Sept. 15) — England has been a thorn in the side of the Vatican since the days of Henry VIII. And Thursday’s planned papal visit — the first-ever state trip to Britain by any pontiff in history — isn’t likely to be any different. When Pope Benedict XVI arrives here for a four-day stay, he’s likely to find a more secular, belligerent Britain than ever before — a country just as ready to thumb its nose at papal authority as it was in the 16th century. Throngs of protesters are expected to greet him in Scotland, London and Birmingham, angry about the price tag for his trip, the church’s sex abuse scandal and its increasingly isolated stances on contraception, homosexuality and abortion. –Lauren Frayer, AOLnews Contributor
Philadelphia Murals Seen From (or Around) Lancaster Avenue
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© Vincenzo Aiosa
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