by Simone Bajaj | Apr 23, 2026
In December 1845, Mary Paul wrote a letter to her father writing about her daily life working in the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts. She was a young teenage girl who left her home in Vermont for work. Her letters offer a firsthand account of the opportunities...
by Ashlin Miller | Mar 17, 2020
The source presented here, at first glance, is a simple photograph of a child from the 1900s. This photograph was taken by photographer Lewis Wickes Hine in 1913. Hine was a photographer during the Progressive Era who was known for documenting the lives of the...