Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1897 — America's Hairpin Industry. [ARTICLE]

America's Hairpin Industry.

It was not until 1878 that the manufacture of hairpins began in the United States. Previous to that time those used In this country were brought from England or France., Now the trade is such a large one that it takes 50,000 packages, each containing twenty-four pins, to supply the wholesale’’demand dally in New Y'ork alone.