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The Kress Library of Business and Economics and Some of Its Treasures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2012

Eleanor L. Nicholes
Affiliation:
Curator, Widener Collection, Harvard University
Dorothea D. Reeves
Affiliation:
Curator, Kress Library, Harvard University

Abstract

The following brief tour through Harvard's Kress Library should acquaint scholars with that collection's unique strengths and whet their appetites for further exploration of its shelves.

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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1966

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27 A Table of Prices, for Weaving the Different Fabrics of Cotton Cloth, Agreed upon by A General Meeting of Delegates from the Operative Weavers, Held for That Purpose, at Glasgow, February, 1812; and Afterwards Sanctioned by the Justices of the Peace for the Lower Ward of Lanarkshire, 10th Nov. 1812. To Which Is Added, an Amplification of Said Table, for the Convenience of Manufacturers and Weavers (Glasgow, 1813).

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