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Title: Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations

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Publication Year: 2004

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Abstract: On the last day of July 1851, Lorenza Berbineau, a Boston servant girl who accompanied the family of Francis Cabot Lowell II on their tour of Europe, went to Hyde Park to the great Exhibition. In breathless prose, she exalted: It was magnificent I saw things from the United States handsome lamps machinery farming emplementsfrom France saw a splendid door of Malachite green also tables Chairs vases some say it is stone some say it is a Metal it was taken from a mine I saw the Horse in Bronze the wild horse there was two men tying a man on to him I saw a wrought silks & caps wrought with gold thread a great many Swiss things cut from woodsome Turkey carpets also French Tapestry Carpets there were two large Diamon I was told the man who cut it was put in Prison for 21 years for cutting it so badlyI saw some Vases made from Cannel Coal they looked like black Ebonythere was a good deal of machinery from Different parts of the world some of it was in motion I saw them make bricks they put the clay in it came out formed into brickI was there about 3 hours to day I got very tired.

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Authors: Thomas, Mark

Periodical (Full): The Journal of Economic History

Issue: 2

Volume: 64

Pages: 569-579

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