Labor History for Labor DayThis Labor Day, dig into labor history through DPLA Exhibitions on topics
Labor History for Labor DayThis Labor Day, dig into labor history through DPLA Exhibitions on topics including labor on the World War I home front, the Bread & Roses Strike of 1912, MA’s shoe-making industry, and the work of Montana’s early settlers! View DPLA Exhibitions Selected images include:A 1920 photograph of a shoe shop in Haverill, MA, from Lawrence History Center via Digital Commonwealth and featured in Best Foot Forward: The Shoe Industry in Massachusetts.“Proclamation! Is Massachusetts in America?,” a 1912 poster from the Lawrence History Center via Digital Commonwealth and featured in Bread and Roses Strike of 1912: Two Months in Lawrence, Massachusetts, that Changed Labor History. A postcard featuring a grain threshing machine near Hobson, Montana, from Hobson Library via Big Sky Country Digital Network and featured in Boom or Bust: The Industries that Settled Montana. “For Every Fighter A Woman Worker. Care for her through the YWCA,” ca. 1917, from North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources via North Carolina Digital Heritage Center and featured in Patriotic Labor: America during World War I. -- source link
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