The Illinois State Genealogical Society is having an Ancestor Photo Contest.
Between now and March 31, 2011, ISGS is asking members to submit photos
of their own ancestors for use on the ISGS website. If your photo is
selected, it will be displayed on a rotating-basis in the top banner of
the ISGS website along with other member-submitted photos.
Here's my submission:
My grandmother (second from right) worked as a seamstress and tailor her entire life in various Chicago sweatshops. She was born in 1896, two months after her father died, and left school after the 6th grade to help support her mother and siblings.
Here's my submission:
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| Chicago Sweatshop, c. 1912 |
My grandmother (second from right) worked as a seamstress and tailor her entire life in various Chicago sweatshops. She was born in 1896, two months after her father died, and left school after the 6th grade to help support her mother and siblings.
I think this was taken circa 1912, or right about the time of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in 1911 in New York.
I found this photograph (a mounted vintage print) and three other similar images, after her death in 1979. Oh, what I would give to talk to her about this photograph, even for just a few minutes!
What a great picture! I hope it is selected. It is valuable on so many levels.
ReplyDeleteExtraordinary photograph.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful photo and great story. Wishing you best of luck in having it selected, it would be a great contribution.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great photo. Once again I am taken by an entry in your blog and the similarities of our genealogical journeys. I am also a librarian, whose grandmother was born in 1895. She left school very early to work in the local silk mill to help support her family. At this time in Scranton the only work for a uneducated girl from a poor mining family was as a domestic or to work in the silk mill. My grandmother and all her sisters worked there at various points. My grandmother married in 1915 and had three children which took her out of the mills.
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