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Passaic Falls, Spring
Thomas W. Whitley (active 1835-1863)
Oil on panel, c. 1839
Tourists went to the falls of the Passaic for the view. Hamilton saw a source of industrial power. In 1791, he helped found the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures, which planned to make Paterson, New Jersey, an industrial city, producing everything from hats to iron wire. |