Flip to Two young women winding silk at the Sauquoit Silk Manufacturing Company of Philadelphia, March 27, 1918.
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Credit: From Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania. Vol. 1, 1905 and Lehigh University
The Sauquoit Silk Manufacturing Company operated mills in Scranton and Bethlehem, PA. The Bethlehem mill operated from 1887 until the Cutter Silk Mill Company ceased operations in 1984.