One of the most extraordinary products to come out of Excelsior was, believe it or not, mud! Yes, wet dirt. It was prepared, canned, and shipped at the Excelsior Chemical Co. and sold across the ...

By the early 20th century, designers added lace and frills ... In Manhattan alone, there were over 450 textile factories, employing approximately 40,000 garment workers, many of them immigrants.

“The upheaval in the auto sector over the next ~10 years promises to be unlike anything we've seen since the early 20th century,” Patel ... is shutting down factories in Germany.