Title

Titus Salt

Caption

Titus Salt (1803-1876) English industrialist. Woolstapler of Bradford, Yorkshire, c1880. Discovered method of manufacturing alpaca cloth. Builder of Saltaire, model town based around his textile factory. Salt was a teetotaler, so no public house was allowed in Saltaire, but Church, houses, shops and social facilites were available to his employees. From "The National Portrait Gallery", Cassell, Petter & Galpin, (London, c1889). Tinted lithograph.

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