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Featured Fade – Fair & Square Ribbon – Joseph Loth & Company – Eric K. Washington

May 21st, 2017

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Fair and Square Ribbon painted sign

This painted advertisement endures on the back of the former Joseph Loth & Company “Fair and Square” ribbon mill, built in 1886, on Amsterdam Avenue between West 150th and 151st Streets. The ad reads, “Fair and Square — This Label Is On The Best Ribbon Made.”

“In upper Manhattan, a block-long structure hulks like a stalwart old public building. But a faded ad painted in back reveals its delicate mission more than a century ago…”

Adelaide Silk Mills – Allentown, PA

Oct 20th, 2012

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CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE – Adelaide Silk Mills – 1915 – Credit: Courtesy of the Pennsylvania State Archives – ExplorePAHistory.com

In 1929 roughly one quarter of Allentown’s workers labored in its more than twenty silk mills. Four years later, factory employment in Allentown was down nearly 50 percent, factory wages had dropped 74 percent, and unemployment had soared from just over 2 percent to close to 40 percent of the work force. Opened in 1881, the Adelaide Silk Mill by the late 1800s was one of the world’s largest silk mills. – Explore PA History dot com