United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, United States. Dept. of Commerce and Labor. Bureau of Statistics, and United States. Bureau of Manufactures, Commercial relations of the United States with foreign countries during the years 1908 (U.S. G.P.O., 1909), p. 164.
United States. Bureau of Foreign Commerce, United States. Dept. of Commerce and Labor. Bureau of Statistics, and United States. Bureau of Manufactures, Special consular reports (G.P.O., 1904), p. 75.
Today, to market. Neither of these is terribly helpful for my work - I have no particular interest in the sale of hats (though it could be a sign of ready money and I do love hats). While the windmills appeared in my search results because of a suggestion of their ready application in parts of Chiapas and the listing of two firms as potential agents, both employing traveling salesmen, I have seen no evidence that such recommendations were ever taken.
Yet I find the idea charming. Hats - 'felt derby, crushed hat, tourist and fedora ...straw hats... white and stiff with medium-width brim, low crown, and black and fancy bands.' Why not? By 1904 there were plenty of American, German, British gentlemen about, and many a Mexican who set just as jaunty a figure. And why not windmills? Well, there are plenty of reasons, many mentioned later in the piece cited - the need to make them portable, the lack of engineers, the ready water supply - but I now have a pleasant image of natty young men in fedoras strutting amongst windmills.
Which of course leads to this.
Married to the Sea, 'Indoor Windmill', http://www.marriedtothesea.com/index.php?date=061209, 6/12/09.
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