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Manufacturing

Having given slavery a new lease on life, he then made Northern triumph inevitable

In the year 1854 a young man named George Washington Eastman rather reluctantly maintained a residence in Waterville, New York.

Proud and independent, the farm girls of New England helped build an industrial Eden, but its paternalistic innocence was not to last

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