Pender, Corrine: Mill Worker. Interviewed by Thomas R. Beardsley, 1990.

Title: Pender, Corrine: Mill Worker. Interviewed by Thomas R. Beardsley, 1990.
Description: Corrine (Krombie) Pender was born in South Coventry, CT in 1903. She recalled her early childhood in New York City and New London, CT. Her family eventually resettled in Coventry. Corrine started work as a teenager in Willimantic, CT’s telephone exchange. She later worked in the Holland silk mill and was briefly employed as a nurse. She returned to the silk industry and worked at the Corticelli silk mill in Putnam, CT. From there she went to the Washburn silk mill in Coventry and then to Pratt and Whitney.
Subject: textile workers; oral history; labor history
Creator: thomas r. beardsley
Contributor: Corrine (Krombie) Pender
Date: 1990
Format: audio mp3 digitized from cassette
Type: Sound
Rights: The recordings are (c) Windham Textile and History Museum.
Relation: Oral History Collection
Provenance: Digitized by Dr. Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann - digitized the content, 2020