The Mill Girls of Lowell

The Mill Girls of Lowell

  It is important for society to recognize the women who worked in textile factories, especially the women in Lowell, Massachusetts, during the 1840s. A historical source from the 1840s, The Lowell Offering, which was a magazine written by mill girls themselves,...
Children gathering potatoes on a large farm

Children gathering potatoes on a large farm

In this picture from October 1940, a couple of school-aged children gather potatoes on a large farm in Caribou, Maine. The caption, “Schools do not open until the potatoes are harvested,” comes from Farm Security Administration (FSA) photographer Jack...