Announcement of Two Book Dividends: Two Textile-Machinery Books Presented to Members of the Business Historical Society

Abstract

As book dividends for 1950, the members of the Business Historical Society are being sent two new volumes in the Harvard Studies in Business History: The Whitin Machine Works since 1831: A Textile Machinery Company in an Industrial Village, by Thomas R. Navin, and The Saco-Lowell Shops: Textile Machinery Building in New England, 1813-1949, by George Sweet Gibb. These two books give a picture of the development of two of America's leading textile-machinery companies. They are the result of extended research in the records of the companies themselves and in the history of the textile machinery industry as a whole. These volumes illustrate the value of the cooperation of business with historians in the creation of a literature dealing with the history of the administration and operation of business.