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Fine in fine jacket. Oversized hardcover in tan cloth stamped in black. Fine in fine dust jacket. 127 pp. with index. Illustrated with photographs, diagrams and reproductions. The Moravian religious community established at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in 1741 was unusual in that it consisted primarily of artisans rather than farmers. To support their missionary activities they built numerous workshops and mills in the mid-18th century. The most remarkable of these was the oil mill, built in 1745 (and rebuilt in 1752 and, after a fire, again in 1765) to extract linseed oil from flaxseed. The 1765 building, though still called the "oil mill" actually contained machinery for five different milling processes: linseed oil; pressing; stamping tanbark; milling snuff; and softening hemp and grinding groats. The mill operated until 1913 and briefly again in 1933-34 as part of the New Deal's Civil Works Administration. Along with he history ofd the facility, this book provides the first English tnaslations of the "Oil Mill Diary" and the "Oil Mill Account Book" kept during the 1765 construction.
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4 TO. Very good dust jacket, 126 pgs incl index and extensive notes. Numerous b&w photos, maps, drawings, etc. Moravian religious community of artisians and in effect this is a bibliography of an early American industrial building. A Very Good copy. ISBN 0-917526-02-3.
