Boott Mills workers eating lunch
- Title:
- Boott Mills workers eating lunch
- Collection:
- Introduction to Photography Collections at Cornell
- Set:
- Labor and Work
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Creation Date:
- 1942-07-08
- ID Number:
- 1990-138-6
- Collection Number:
- 6642 P
- Athm Number:
- 1990.138.6
- File Name:
- 1990-138-6.jpg
- Work Type:
- photograph
- Materials/Techniques:
- gelatin silver prints
- Subject:
- Textile factories
Women employees
Textile Industry
Women textile workers
hearing impared
deaf - Measurement:
- 6.5 x 9.25 (centimeters, width x height)
- Description:
- Snapshot of three light skinned women sitting outdoors on a low wall eating a sack lunch. All three women wear short-sleeved, patterned dresses protected by floral print aprons, sensible shoes and socks, and have bare knees. The woman on the left is mid-bite, the one in the center is looking toward the camera mid-word, and the one on the right is holding her knee up and throwing her head back, smiling. Handwritten text in blue reads "Eating Lunch" across the top, and "Olive, Irene & Vera" across the bottom. The women are Olive (Dunn) Carney of West Newbury, MA; Irene (Marchand) Allegra of Lowell, MA; and Veronica (Murphy) Tasca of Lawrence, MA. All three were workers at the Boott Mills in Lowell, MA, and all were hearing impaired or deaf.
- Cite As:
- Frances A. Olawski Collection of Boott Mills Photographs. 6642 P. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University.
- Repository:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University
- Archival Collection:
- Frances A. Olawski Collection of Boott Mills Photographs
- Box:
- 1
- Folder:
- 1
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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