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399: 342: 50:, which was the site of the Hathaway Shirt Factory for more than one hundred years. On June 1, 1853, ground was broken for the shirt factory, and it was in full operation by the end of October. Employees worked 60 hours per week, from 7 A.M. to 6 P.M., six days a week, with an hour off at noon. It later made uniform shirts for Union soldiers during the 46:, his share of which he sold to Tillson for $ 900 on March 31, 1853. On April 1, 1853, he wrote in his diary that he had agreed to form a partnership with his brother George to create a factory in Waterville to be incorporated as C. F. Hathaway and Co. On May 18, 1853, he purchased an acre of land on Appleton Street for $ 900 from 73:, a Russian aristocrat with 20/20 vision, to appear in the ads. The campaign portrayed the "Hathaway man" as sophisticated and elegant, with a lifetime of interesting experiences. The campaign was selected by 42:. Its early history is unclear. Though often described as starting in 1837, there is little evidence of this date. It is well-documented that in 1848 Hathaway built a shirt factory with Josiah Tillson in 297: 474: 149: 70: 92:
C. F. Hathaway Company closed its Maine factory in 2002, making it the second to last major American shirt company to produce shirts in the United States. Only
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as #22 on its list of the greatest ad campaigns of the 20th century. The "Hathaway man" reappeared in a 1993 sketch on
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History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts: With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men
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A Century of American Icons: 100 Products and Slogans from the 20th-Century Consumer Culture
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Hathaway is most famous for its "man with an eye patch" advertising campaign created by
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who lost part of a finger in a car accident back into modeling.
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Illustrated History of Kennebec County, Maine; 1625-1799-1892
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sans moustache. The Hathaway man works to get a discouraged
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shirts
Waterville, Maine
Charles Foster Hathaway
Watertown, Massachusetts
Samuel Appleton
American Civil War
Ogilvy & Mather
Lewis Douglas
David Ogilvy
Baron George Wrangell
Advertising Age
Saturday Night Live
Phil Hartman
hand model
Gitman Bros
"The Rise and Fall of David Ogilvy"
Bloomberg Businessweek
Archived
"One Eyed Flattery"
Time
the original
"Baron George Wrangell obituary"
Time
the original
A Century of American Icons: 100 Products and Slogans from the 20th-Century Consumer Culture
ISBN
978-0313314810
"Top 100 Advertising Campaigns"
the original
"Hathaway Closes Maine Factory, Last Major U.S. Shirt Plant"

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