PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTORY.
EARLY DAYS.
PERIOD OF THE REVOLUTION.
AFTER THE REVOLUTION.
EARLY IN THE XIX CENTURY.
SOME OLD FIRMS.
PATRIARCHS OF THE TRADE.
JACOB ROGERS.
OLD METHODS.
JOHN PETTICORD.
MIDDLE OF THE CENTURY.
FASHIONS.
NEW DEVELOPMENTS.
GROWTH OF BUSINESS.
HISTORY OF THE MACKINAW HAT.
MODERN IMPROVEMENTS.
A MODEL ESTABLISHMENT.
WAYS AND MEANS OF THE PRESENT TIME.
BALTIMORE HATS PAST AND PRESENT.
AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE HAT INDUSTRY OF BALTIMORE FROM ITS EARLIEST DAYS TO THE PRESENT TIME.
BY
WILLIAM T. BRIGHAM.
PRINTED FOR GRATUITOUS CIRCULATION ONLY.
BALTIMORE: MDCCCLXXXX.
Copyrighted, 1890, by Wm. T. Brigham.
Press and Bindery of Isaac Friedenwald, Baltimore, Md.
