At the dawn of the 19th century, an Irish immigrant named Alexander Brown arrived in Baltimore and set up shop as a linen merchant ... exchange system between the American dollar and the British ...

Blue jeans gained popularity in the late 19th-century American West due to their durability ... Levi Strauss & Co. Archives When Nevada-based tailor Jacob Davis received an order for a hardy ...

In the early years of the 19th century, the invention of the sewing machine was all but inevitable. Factories were filling with seamstresses and tailors, and savvy inventors and entrepreneurs ...