14.731 | Spring 2009 | Graduate

Economic History

Cottonopolis, black-and-white engraving by Edward Goodall (1795-1870) of smoke rising from the textile mills in Manchester, United Kingdom

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Cottonopolis, engraving by Edward Goodall (1795-1870), based on the painting Manchester, from Kersal Moor by William Wylde (1857). The name Cottonopolis refers to Manchester’s status as the international center of the cotton and textile processing industries in the mid-nineteenth century. (Source: Wikimedia Commons.)

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Cottonopolis, black-and-white engraving by Edward Goodall (1795-1870) of smoke rising from the textile mills in Manchester, United Kingdom
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Cottonopolis, black-and-white engraving by Edward Goodall (1795-1870) of smoke rising from the textile mills in Manchester, United Kingdom.
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Cottonopolis, engraving by Edward Goodall (1795-1870), based on the painting Manchester, from Kersal Moor by William Wylde (1857). The name Cottonopolis refers to Manchester’s status as the international center of the cotton and textile processing industries in the mid-nineteenth century. (Source: Wikimedia Commons.)
Cottonopolis, black-and-white engraving by Edward Goodall (1795-1870) of smoke rising from the textile mills in Manchester, United Kingdom.

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