Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A History of American Manufactures From 1608 to 1860, Vol. 3 of 3: Exhibiting the Origin and Growth of the Principal Mechanic Arts and Manufactures, From the Earliest Colonial Period to the Adoption of the Constitution
In 1860, the agents employed in taking the Eighth Census reported there were in Phila delphia six thousand two hundred and ninety-eight manufacturing establishments, with a capital of employing sixty-eight thousand three hundred and fifty males, thirty thousand six hundred and thirty-three females, who produced a value of 7 7. Believing that the original returns were erroneous, Lorin Blodget, Secre tary of the Board of Trade, was appointed to revise them, who reported as follows.
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