1. Alfred D. Chandler Jr., Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the Industrial Enterprise (Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press, 1962); The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap, 1977); Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap, 1990). 2. Regina Lee Blaszczyk, Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000).3. Neil Ewins, “A Picture of Midwest American Ceramic ‘Taste’: Staffordshire Ceramics for the St. Louis Market,” Wedgwood: Production for Elegance, Fashion, and Taste, Wedgwood International Seminar Proceedings 41, 42, edited by Keith McLeod (Toronto: Wedgwood International Seminar, 1998), pp. 178–99. The St. Louis importer was Chauncey Filley and the white granite manufacturer was Liddle, Elliot and Son. Much of the St. Louis information is from the Missouri Historical Society’s 1865–1866 letter-book of Chauncey I. Filley. Neil Ewins, “‘Supplying the Present Wants of Our Yankee Cousins . . .’” Staffordshire Ceramics and the American Market, 1775–1880,” Journal of Ceramic History 15 (1997), pp. 1–154.