Women Silk Workers, Paterson, 1913 Courtesy, Collections of the Paterson Museum
Young women worked in the
Paterson silk mills by the thousands in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries. Here, women work at 'picking' or inspecting
silk for flaws
Women's
Project of New Jersey Copyright 2002, The Women's Project of New
Jersey, Inc.
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