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Nashua's Mill Girls
1826 - 1860's
The mill girl years were scattered with prosperity and conflict. The new idea of young women having the capacity to earn larger pay wages than the other forms of employment during the antebellum decades provided a new economy to the growing industrial era. Labor protests, unhealthy working and living conditions, the Speedup System and a high turnover rate of employees created an instability with workers and their employers.
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Two Women Weavers
Tin Type Image
Photo taken between 1860-1870 | 
Scene of a Weaving Room
Woman winding a shuttle bobbin
Winslow Homer - 1871 |
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