Flip to Winding silk at the Sauquoit Silk Manufacturing Company, Philadelphia, PA, March 27, 1918.Close Window
Credit: Courtesy of the Pennsylvania State Archives
In the early 1900s, Philadelphia produced more than twice as many textiles as any other city in the nation and almost one-third of the nation's output of carpets. Hardwick and Magee Company, at 7th and Lehigh, was one of the city's largest weavers of fine figured carpets.
