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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 (5,095 words) - 05:06, 27 May 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
  • 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) - 15:01, 9 June 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 (2,570 words) - 06:00, 3 April 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...
    9 KB (965 words) - 15:38, 2 July 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 (2,660 words) - 20:34, 29 July 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
  • 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...
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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...
    116 KB (10,541 words) - 15:13, 10 July 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
  • 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 (3,349 words) - 21:10, 26 May 2024
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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...
    49 KB (3,232 words) - 07:42, 18 May 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) - 03:27, 17 June 2024
  • Mill Hill International is a coeducational independent day and boarding school located in Mill Hill, North London and forms part of the Mill Hill School...
    4 KB (238 words) - 12:28, 24 July 2024
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    parents when she was an infant. At the age of eleven, she began work as a mill girl in the hosiery industry in Pittsburgh. Her father was a miner and her...
    11 KB (1,249 words) - 18:16, 25 June 2024
  • Different for Girls, Leslie Mills' debut album, was released in 2003 on Atlantic Records. The song Good Life was included on the soundtrack for the film...
    2 KB (94 words) - 03:50, 13 January 2021
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    Vivien Mills (born 18 April 1946) is a British actress. The daughter of Sir John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell and younger sister of actress Juliet Mills, she...
    40 KB (3,481 words) - 11:32, 4 August 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 (2,070 words) - 12:36, 17 June 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) - 01:02, 3 June 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...
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