One of the main stitching-rooms at the Royal Worcester Corset, co., Worcester, Massachusetts
Dublin Core
Title
One of the main stitching-rooms at the Royal Worcester Corset, co., Worcester, Massachusetts
Subject
Royal Worcester Corset Company--Employees; Corset industry--Massachusetts--Worcester; Foundation garment industry--Massachusetts--Worcester; Women employees--Pictorial works
Description
Female employees at work in one of the main stitching rooms at the Royal Worcester Corset Co., Worcester, Massachusetts in 1902. The photograph shows nearly 700 women and girls at work at the nearly 500 electrically-powered sewing machines. Royal Worcester Corset Co. was started in 1861 by David Hale Fanning. At its height it employed nearly 2000 people. The factory closed in 1950.
Source
Image from page 141 of the Worcester Magazine, October, 1902 (Vol. IV No. 4) in the article "The Making of Corsets". Published by the Worcester Board of Trade.
Publisher
C/WMARS http://www.cwmars.org/
Date
1902-10
Relation
In the collections of the Worcester Public Library, Worcester, Mass. http://www.worcpublib.org/
Format
image/jpg
Language
en-US
Type
Image
Files
Collection
Citation
“One of the main stitching-rooms at the Royal Worcester Corset, co., Worcester, Massachusetts,” Digital Commonwealth , accessed May 19, 2013, http://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/items/show/1583.
Comments