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Prior to working with the police, she was one of five female health inspectors employed in the city health department in 1889. [3] When employed with police she reported to Capt. O’Brien. In 1901 the Chicago Tribune described her position: "So Mrs. Marie Owens became 'Sergeant No. 97,' with the salary, star, and rating of a special police ...
Image credits: Electrical-Aspect-13 We were curious to know how photography has evolved throughout history. "The norms of photographic portraiture stem from Victorian times when photography began.
London newsboy Ned Parfett with news of the Titanic disaster, April 16, 1912. A newspaper hawker, newsboy or newsie is a street vendor of newspapers without a fixed newsstand. Related jobs included paperboy, delivering newspapers to subscribers, and news butcher, selling papers on trains. Adults who sold newspapers from fixed newsstands were ...
For most of the Victorian era, people thought it was normal for men and women to be treated differently, and judged by different standards. For most of the Victorian era, people thought it was ...
Courtship and Marriage in Victorian England (ABC-CLIO, 2011)4; Poovey, Mary. Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England (U of Chicago Press, 1988). Roberts, Adam Charles, ed. Victorian culture and society: the essential glossary (2003). Roderick, Gordon. Victorian education and the ideal of womanhood (Routledge ...
In 1813, businessman Francis Cabot Lowell formed a company, the Boston Manufacturing Company, and built a textile mill next to the Charles River in Waltham, Massachusetts.. Unlike the earlier Rhode Island System, where only carding and spinning were done in a factory while the weaving was often put out to neighboring farms to be done by hand, the Waltham mill was the first integrated mill in ...
This work has, in modern (i.e. the nineteenth century) times, primarily been performed by women, but in medieval households female domestics were relatively rare. A male servant performing the tasks described above would be called a scullion .
The 1910 Chicago garment workers' strike, also known as the Hart, Schaffner and Marx (HSM) strike, was a labor strike established and led by women in which diverse workers in the garment industry showed their capability to unify across ethnic boundaries in response to an industry's low wages, unrealistic production demands, and poor working conditions.