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MC 00307 Guide to Elliot C. Cowdin's Report to the Department of State on Silk and Silk Manufacture, [1868?]

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Creator

Cowdin, Elliot C. (Elliot Christopher), 1819-1880

Quantity

1.0 volume

General Physical Description note

134 leaves

Location

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Language

English

Provenance

Unknown

Processing

Processed by: Lois Fischer Black; machine-readable finding aid created by: Lois Fischer Black

Scope and Content Note

Handwritten report by Elliot Christopher Cowdin of New York, United States Commissioner to the Paris Universal Exposition of 1867, on the basic history of the international silk industry as well as the results of his work as Commissioner to the Paris Exposition.

Biographical Note

Elliot Christopher Cowdin (1819-1880) was a silk merchant in New York in the mid-nineteenth century. He was United States Commissioner to the Paris Universal Exposition of 1867.

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Preferred Citation

Elliot Christopher Cowdin, Report to the Department of State on Silk and Silk Manufacture, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, North Carolina.

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