Thread Factory and Employees, Monticello, Indiana
| Description: |
The Tippecanoe Thread Mills was started in 1910 and made possible by hydroelectric power channeled by the dam on the Tippecanoe River. It was owned by the Marshall Field Estate of Chicago and employed 125 people who produced sewing and embroidery threads. |
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| Origin: | Circa 1910 |
| Publisher: |
Welch, Ed., Monticello, Indiana |
| Source: |
http://images.indianahistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/P0391/id/1210 |
| Collection: |
Postcards of Indiana the Jay Small Collection |
| Copyright: |
Use must be accompanied with the attribution: Indiana Historical Society. |
| Geography: |
Indiana White Monticello |
| Subjects: |
White County (Ind.) Factories Thread Sewing-- Equipment and supplies Women |
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