Hard Labor in New England

A few photos in anticipation of the upcoming Labor Day holiday.  Once upon a time, it meant more than the last backyard barbecue of summer.

The Fisk, Chicopee, Massachusetts, likely in the late 1930s.  Image Museum website.

 

 

 

Isaac Prouty Boot & Shoe Co, Spencer, Massachusetts, Spencer Historical Museum Collections. Richard Sugden Library, Spencer, Massachusetts.

 

 

Skinner Mfg. Co., Holyoke, Mass. Image Museum website.  See here for my previous posts on the Skinner silk mills: http://newenglandtravels.blogspot.com/2012/01/william-skinners-silk-mills-holyoke.html

http://newenglandtravels.blogspot.com/2013/07/doris-tanguay-at-william-skinner-mfg-co.html

http://newenglandtravels.blogspot.com/2013/07/doris-tanguay-at-skinner-company.html

 

 

 

War worker in 1942.  Gilbert Company, New Haven, Connecticut.  Photo Howard Hollem, Office of War Information.  See here for my previous post on women war workers:

http://newenglandtravels.blogspot.com/2013/07/ladies-who-were-wows-springfield-armory.html

 

 

Boys who worked at a cotton mill in North Pownal, Vermont, 1910. 

Lewis Wickes Hine, photographer, Library of Congress

 

 

Eastport, Maine, East Coast Canning Co., 1911,

Lewis Wickes Hine photographer, Library of Congress

 

 

Fiskeville, Rhode Island, Jackson Mill, 1909,

Lewis Wickes Hine photographer, Library of Congress

 

 

There but for the union go I.  Or you.  Happy Labor Day.