Rhodes & Smith Woollen Factory. Printed receipt, signed

by Dorrance by Tully Dorrance

$150 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Pawtuxet: July 25, 1818. Manuscript receipt approx. 2¾ x 7½ , ink bright and legible. From the earliest beginnings of the textile industry in Rhode Island. Rhodes & Smith were the well-known Christopher and William Rhodes and Elisha P. Smith 1777-1832 . The Rhodes brothers, who advertised as spinners, clothiers, and carders of wool, were very successful textile manufacturers. They were noted for producing the first woolen broadcloth in

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