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  • Thumbnail for Lowell mill girls
    The Lowell mill girls were young female workers who came to work in textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts during the Industrial Revolution in the United...
    37 KB (5,103 words) - 08:30, 24 November 2024
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    Lowell. The Lowell Mills were hiring young women as factory workers and older women to run the boarding houses where the Lowell Mill Girls lived. Mrs. Larcom...
    21 KB (2,571 words) - 06:00, 3 April 2024
  • A mill town, also known as factory town or mill village, is typically a settlement that developed around one or more mills or factories, often cotton mills...
    26 KB (778 words) - 23:20, 7 September 2024
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    (usually single) between the ages of 15 and 35, who became known as "mill girls". They were called "operatives" because they operated the looms and other...
    11 KB (1,414 words) - 12:52, 23 March 2024
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    the grave of John Ansley Storey. Longman's Mill Girl sculpture, dedicated in 1906, memorializes Lowell mill worker Louisa Maria Wells. In 1920, Longman...
    15 KB (1,486 words) - 12:24, 16 April 2024
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    textile manufacturing. The system used domestic labor, often referred to as mill girls, who came to the new textile centers from rural towns to earn more money...
    9 KB (1,158 words) - 16:25, 12 June 2023
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    Florence Lawrence (redirect from Imp Girl)
    At the height of her fame in the 1910s, she was known as the "Biograph Girl" for work as one of the leading ladies in silent films from the Biograph...
    54 KB (2,888 words) - 01:46, 24 November 2024
  • Watson Mandy Miller as Gladdie, little girl who sends a message for Stratton Charlotte Mitchell as Mill Girl Olaf Olsen as Knudsen Desmond Roberts as...
    10 KB (1,049 words) - 04:31, 12 September 2024
  • Marianne Stone as Mill Girl John Trigger as Officer at Station Kathleen Wileman as Emma Smith at Age 4 Penelope Allen as Solo Chorus Girl Maurice Arthur...
    30 KB (3,358 words) - 16:21, 27 October 2024
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    poverty and Great Famine of the 1830s and 1840s. The mill workers, young single women called Mill Girls, generally came from the farm families of New England...
    117 KB (10,651 words) - 03:35, 25 November 2024
  • Battlefield or Bodies on the battlefield at Antietam. Also titled Cotton Mill Girl. The collection item for the Library of Congress gives a much longer title...
    120 KB (2,645 words) - 19:03, 25 November 2024
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    2006-10-15. Contains much on the general history of Girl Scouts in the United States "Tunnel Mill". Lincoln Heritage Council. Archived from the original...
    27 KB (2,781 words) - 01:10, 16 July 2024
  • Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847 by Barry Denenberg (1997) I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff...
    14 KB (1,857 words) - 01:55, 22 February 2024
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    The Mill on the Floss Article". "BBC Radio 4 Extra - George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss, Boy and Girl". BBC. Retrieved 2 April 2019. The Mill on the...
    17 KB (2,075 words) - 17:48, 8 November 2024
  • Laughter in Paradise (1951) – Ethel The Man in the White Suit (1951) – Mill Girl Lady Godiva Rides Again (1951) – Lucille Curtain Up (1952) – Daphne Ray...
    8 KB (770 words) - 01:05, 4 November 2024
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    mid-1880s, Carmichael started a Sunday-morning class for the 'Shawlies' (mill girls who wore shawls instead of hats) in the church hall of Rosemary Street...
    18 KB (1,819 words) - 03:52, 12 November 2024
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    to stage, then on to Bohemia, to Society, to Society's maids, to the mill-girl and lastly to the suburban woman". Among female Bohemians in the early...
    69 KB (9,604 words) - 04:50, 24 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cotton mill
    developed. Mills generated employment demand, drawing workers from largely rural areas and expanding urban populations. They provided incomes for girls and women...
    75 KB (9,058 words) - 00:29, 14 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Francis Cabot Lowell
    families, as textile workers. These women became known as the Lowell mill girls. Women lived in company run boarding houses with chaperones and were involved...
    15 KB (1,544 words) - 14:01, 30 August 2024
  • Visitor to Stately Home (uncredited) Oh, What a Lovely War! (1969) as Mill Girl The Best House in London (1969) as Machinist (uncredited) Incense for...
    18 KB (1,986 words) - 18:05, 2 November 2024
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