1937 Print Rayon Factory Textile American Viscose Clothing Cloth Aikins FZ3 XEW9 Lutz of Philadelphia

Lutz of Philadelphia

and the Vuoksi river

This is an original 1925 photogravure of San Bartolito

Shayne and Company

1937 Print Rayon Factory Textile American Viscose Clothing Cloth Aikins FZ3 XEW9 Lutz of PhiladelphiaThis is an original 1937 halftone print of a worker at the American Viscose Corporation. The caption writes, "Neither seed nor worm nor sheep made rayon but man; and in all the many years that man has woven cloth to put on his back, this is the only major textile fiber his own brain has ever conceived." The American Viscose Corporation was the first rayon factory in the United States and was built in 1910 in Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania. Photography by