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Factory Work

1887   Leonora M. Barry's Report on Women's Work in New Jersey.  The Knights of Labor inspector of women's work inspects Trenton, Newark, Bordentown, Lambertville and Paterson, 1887.   

c. 1890   Women cotton thread workers, c. 1890, an engraving of workers at the Clark Thread Company, Kearney.                                          

1907   Working Women's Gymnastic Club, 1907, a Paterson women silk workers' athletic club. 

c. 1910s   Juliet Clannon Cushing, advocate of protective labor legislation for women. 

c. 1910   Marietta Boggio Botto and her family, c. 1910. 

1913   Women Silk Workers, Paterson, 1913. 

1913   Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Remembers the Paterson Silk Strike. Flynn recalls strike assemblies and women's meetings, 1913.                                   

1913   Bill Haywood Remembers the Paterson Silk Strike. Haywood comments on women's role in the strike, 1913.                                              

c. 1922-23   Watch Dial Painters, c. 1922-1923, a photograph of workers at the U.S. Radium Corporation in Orange.                                        

1926   Striking Woolen Workers, Passaic, 1926, a photo of three young women strikers and a police officer. 

c. 1943   Mary Yamashita Nagao, 1920-1985. Photograph at Manzanar Relocation Center, c. 1943.

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