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 A SPLENDIDLY EQUIPPED CARPET FACTORY OE SANTA GERTRUDE, NEAR ORIZABA, 



MEXICO 



During the rule of Porfirio Diaz textile factories, employing thousands of laboring people, 

 came into existence in Mexico. They were mostly owned by foreign capital, and through 

 them a middle class was gradually being developed. 



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