We kept our towns going : the Gossard Girls of Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
Wong, Phyllis Michael.
We kept our towns going : the Gossard Girls of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. - 1st ed. - xvi, 190 pages, 16 pages of plates : photos; 23 cm
"Phyllis Michael Wong tells the stories of the "Gossard Girls," women who sewed corsets and bras at factories in Ispheming and Gwinn in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, from the early twentieth century to the 1970s. Particularly as the Upper Peninsula's mines were exhausted and its stands of timber depleted, the Gossard Girls' income sustained both their families and the local economy"--
9781611864205
2021017434
H.W. Gossard Company--Employees--History--20th century.
Foundation garment industry--Employees--History--Michigan--20th century.
Women lingerie industry workers--History--Michigan--20th century.
HD9969 / .W66 2022
331.4/88722092277496
We kept our towns going : the Gossard Girls of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. - 1st ed. - xvi, 190 pages, 16 pages of plates : photos; 23 cm
"Phyllis Michael Wong tells the stories of the "Gossard Girls," women who sewed corsets and bras at factories in Ispheming and Gwinn in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, from the early twentieth century to the 1970s. Particularly as the Upper Peninsula's mines were exhausted and its stands of timber depleted, the Gossard Girls' income sustained both their families and the local economy"--
9781611864205
2021017434
H.W. Gossard Company--Employees--History--20th century.
Foundation garment industry--Employees--History--Michigan--20th century.
Women lingerie industry workers--History--Michigan--20th century.
HD9969 / .W66 2022
331.4/88722092277496