In 1971, he was among eleven UK fashion designers chosen for an exhibition showcasing British talent at The Louvre at the invitation of the director of Beatrice Bellini for Women's Home Industries McDonnell chose to show an outfit comprising tweed tunic, tapestry-patterned sweater, blouson short pants with leggings and long doeskin cape.
12.
In 1874, businesses in Claremont included Monadnock Mills, manufacturing cotton cloths from one to three yards wide, Marseilles quilts, union flannels, and lumber, and employing 125 males and 225 females; Home Mill ( A . Briggs & Co . ) producing cotton cloth and employing 8 males and 20 females; Sullivan Machine Co ., manufacturing Steam Dimond Drill Machinery for quarrying rock, turbine water wheels, cloth measuring machines, and doing general machine and mill work, employing 56 males; Sugar River Paper Mill Co ., manufacturing printing paper and employing 30 males and 20 females; Claremont Manufacturing Co ., manufacturing paper and books, and doing stereotyping and book and job printing, employing 34 males and 34 females; Russell Jarvis, manufacturing hanging paper and employing 7 males and 2 females; John S . Farrington, manufacturing straw wrapping paper and employing 5 males and 1 female; Sullivan Mills ( George L . Balcom ), manufacturing black doeskins and employing 20 males and 18 females; Charles H . Eastman, in the leather business and employing 4 males; Sugar River Mill Co ., manufacturing flour, feed, and doing custom grinding, and employing 8 males; three saw mills employing a part of the year, 10 males; Blood & Woodcock, in the business of monuments and grave stones and employing 8 males; and Houghton, Bucknam & Co ., in the business of sashes, doors and blinds, employing 8 males.
