Factory Workers at Bridges & Co. Boot shop, Hopkinton 1876
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Title
Factory Workers at Bridges & Co. Boot shop, Hopkinton 1876
Subject
D.T. Bridges & Co. (Hopkinton, Mass.); Shoe industry-Massachusetts-Hopkinton; Historic buildings-Massachusetts-Hopkinton
Description
Factory workers lean from windows and pose from outside of D.T. Bridges boot factory on Main Street in Hopkinton MA. ca 1876. Dozens can be seen outside; most wear work aprons, many wear hats. Note women sitting on sill of second floor right hand window, also a worker dangles a boot from third-story window on far left. The building is a five-story clapboard sided structure, directly to the left is the original Town Hall. View is of the southern side. This building was destroyed in a fire of April 1882, the building which replaced this one then burned in 1900. Bridges & Co. employed hundred of workers in the boot manufactory.
Source
4x6 inch photograph printed by William Robinson from plate glass negative in 1970's
Publisher
C/WMARS http://www.cwmars.org
Date
1876
Rights
Please request permission in advance to use image by contacting Rownak Hussain at Rownak@Hopkinton.org
Relation
From The Hopkinton Public Library Treasure Room
Format
image/jpg
Language
en-US
Type
image
Coverage
42.24 N 71.49 W
Files
Collection
Citation
“Factory Workers at Bridges & Co. Boot shop, Hopkinton 1876,” Digital Commonwealth , accessed May 24, 2013, http://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/items/show/508.
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