Woman Working in Textile Mill Digital History ID 2555

Woman Working in Textile Mill

Credit: Lowell National Historical Park.
Media type: painting
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Annotation: During the mid-1800s, the boardinghouse textile mills provided young women the opportunity to earn wages. This industrial community of women established their own magazine, The Lowell Offering, which was devoted to publishing the voices of the female mill workers.
Year: 1871

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