A slip of paper in the case identifies her as: "Mary D. Warner, taken about 1854." We can tell Mary was a mill worker based on the shuttle in her hands. Images like this were fairly common for the time, as many mill workers would proudly sit for portraits that demonstrated their new economic mobility.
On loan from the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
A slip of paper in the case identifies her as: "Mary D. Warner, taken about 1854." We can tell Mary was a mill worker based on the shuttle in her hands. Images like this were fairly common for the time, as many mill workers would proudly sit for portraits that demonstrated their new economic mobility.
On loan from the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
A slip of paper in the case identifies her as: "Mary D. Warner, taken about 1854." We can tell Mary was a mill worker based on the shuttle in her hands. Images like this were fairly common for the time, as many mill workers would proudly sit for portraits that demonstrated their new economic mobility.
On loan from the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Huldah Stone was a known associate of the labor reformer Sarah Bagley. In this letter, Lawrence refers to her as “a radical of the worst sort” and warns Storrow that she is seeking a room in a boarding house nearby.
On loan from the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Huldah Stone was a known associate of the labor reformer Sarah Bagley. In this letter, Lawrence refers to her as “a radical of the worst sort” and warns Storrow that she is seeking a room in a boarding house nearby.
On loan from the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
A printed copy of Dorothy Jacobs’s speech before the third biennial Convention of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, in which she points to the lack of representation of women within the union despite their making up the majority of garment workers.
On loan from the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
A printed copy of Dorothy Jacobs’s speech before the third biennial Convention of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, in which she points to the lack of representation of women within the union despite their making up the majority of garment workers.
On loan from the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
By the 1970s, many Spanish-speaking immigrants had found work in the textile industry in the U.S. They still make up a large part of the workforce in what remains of the garment industry here today.
On loan from the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Plate 4 of “A Harlot’s Progress,” a series of six engravings made by Hogarth showing the rise and eventual fall of a woman named Polly (or Molly). Although she arrives in London seeking employment as a seamstress, she is misled into a life of prostitution by Elizabeth Needham, a well-known Madam of the time. Polly eventually dies of syphilis. In the scene in this engraving, Polly has been sent to Bridewell prison and is beating hemp. Like Flora Montgomerie, these stories were used to warn women against the fate that awaited them if they wandered too far astray.
On loan from the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
