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"Leading Industries of Philadelphia, Value in Millions of Dollars," 1909.
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Chart of the dollar values of Philadelphia's leading industries in 1909

Credit: John J. MacFarlane, Manufacturing in Philadelphia, 1683-1912. Philadelphia Commercial Museum, 1912.

This chart, published in Manufacturing in Philadelphia (1912), shows both the diversity of Philadelphia's industrial economy and the extraodinary  productivity of its textile, clothing, hosiery, and rug manufacturers.  

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