Columbia University LibrariesWomen's Work Room Album -- Women's Work Shop
- CSS Description
- From: Women's Work Rooms Album #4029 Unknown Photographer In AICP 75th "Annual Report 1918" (1917-1918), p. 26. Caption: WOMEN'S WORK SHOP. The large majority of the workers are elderly whomen who by reason of age and feebleness (which is often accentuated by other physical handicaps) find all other doors of work closed to them. Others are mothers, usually widows, whose home cares are such that they cannot work the regular hours required in ordinary industries but who find a few hours spent each day at the Shops opportunity for partial self-support. The work is educational in that stress is placed on the various kinds of sewing necessary in home life.
Item Information
- Title
- Women's Work Room Album -- Women's Work Shop
- Date
- circa 1917
- Item Number
- 311
- Photograph Number
- 4029
- Format
- photographs
- Corporate Designation
- New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor
- Borough
- Manhattan
- Annotation on Back
- From: Women's Work Room Album
- Places
- New York (N.Y.)
- Topics
- Workshops; Women--Employment; Women; Sewing; Older women; Older people--Employment; Older people; Flags
- Names
- Women's Work Rooms (New York, N.Y.)
- Box and Folder Number
- 298: 36
- CSS Description
- From: Women's Work Rooms Album #4029 Unknown Photographer In AICP 75th "Annual Report 1918" (1917-1918), p. 26. Caption: WOMEN'S WORK SHOP. The large majority of the workers are elderly whomen who by reason of age and feebleness (which is often accentuated by other physical handicaps) find all other doors of work closed to them. Others are mothers, usually widows, whose home cares are such that they cannot work the regular hours required in ordinary industries but who find a few hours spent each day at the Shops opportunity for partial self-support. The work is educational in that stress is placed on the various kinds of sewing necessary in home life.