All posts tagged "textile manufacturing"
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1.5KBusiness and LaborThe Working Girls of Boston: Immoral Floozies or Honest Toilers?
During the Gilded Age, the working girls of Boston had to contend not just with low pay but with reputations as immoral...
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5.0KCrime and ScandalThe Murder of Mary Bean, Pregnant Mill Girl
One spring day in Saco, Maine, Osgood Stevens, 14, was having trouble clearing debris from Woodbury Brook. He couldn’t dislodge a whitewashed...
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7.4KBusiness and LaborSix Places Products Were Made
Back in the day, products were made in New England — a lot of products. The early cod fishermen and Yankee traders...
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9.7K3ConnecticutDavid Ruggles, the Go-To Conductor on the Underground Railroad
David Ruggles helped 600 enslaved people to freedom during the 1830s despite attempts to kill him, kidnap him and burn down his...
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7.9KBusiness and LaborThe Great India Rubber Panic Launches Charles Goodyear on a Crusade
Charles Goodyear might have live out his life as an obscure hardware store owner if the Great India Rubber Panic never took...
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8.9K1Politics and MilitaryRowland Hazard Gets 100 People Out of Jail for Free
Rowland Hazard was a well-known philosopher, politician and businessman, but he was proudest of something he did in the shadows: He released...
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