In the later 19th century thousands of women and girls worked in New
Jersey's textile industry in cotton, jute, wool and silk manufacture. In this illustration
from a trade catalogue, c. 1890, women work at reeling machines at the Clark Thread
Company in Kearney.
Women's
Project of New Jersey Copyright 2002, The Women's Project of New
Jersey, Inc.
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