Photograph, Packaging Department, American Thread Company

Title: Photograph, Packaging Department, American Thread Company
Description: Photograph of two textile mill workers boxing pre-wound sewing machine bobbins in the Packaging Department of the American Thread Company in Willimantic, CT. The worker in the foreground is Anita Biron Farrell. The other is unknown. Black and white gelatin print. Hugelmeyer Studios, New York, NY. Circa 1957. According to Farrell in an oral history interview, she was 18 years old and had just gotten married. This was her first job after graduating from high school. When she spoke with us in 2008, she insisted that she and the other women workers at ATC always dressed up for work and wore makeup, regardless of their jobs.
Identifier: WTHM.2022.2.18
Creator: Hugelmeyer Studio
Date: circa 1957
Date Created: circa 1957
Type: Photograph
Format: Gelatin Print
Subject: Packaging Department; Farrell, Anita Biron, American Thread Company
Coverage: Northeast : North America : Windham, CT : Willimantic, CT
Rights: Copyright held by American Thread Company, 1957.
Relation: American Thread Company Collection
Provenance: Name/Reference Label: Found Object