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Show 24 PAPERMAKIN reams in a single day. William Rittenhouse, the first papermake in the province of Pennsylvania, had worked in Amsterdam a carly as 1678, when he was thirty-four years of age, but he ha learned the craft of papermaking in his native city, Millhcim o Wood-block for printing a mpfl IabeI "Claude Caprony L sm papier find Ia Croix blanche, 1 the Ruhr. Rittenhouse was forty-four when he came to Pennsylvania in 1688 and itis interesting to surmise just how he had bee influenced by the Dutch papermakers and to what extent he introduced the old Dutch customs into the pioncer paper mill of th New World ‘The old European papermakers, as well as the early America workers at this craft, were much too fond of their drink and coul near the mills. The vatman and coucher, who interchanged thei work, could readily have been distinguished by their red, muscula Digital Imag © 2004 University of Utah. All rights reserved |
