Blackburn, Edith Hartley: Mill Worker. Interviewed by Thomas R. Beardsley, 1990. “I Still Miss England.”
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Title
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Blackburn, Edith Hartley: Mill Worker. Interviewed by Thomas R. Beardsley, 1990. “I Still Miss England.”
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Description
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Edith Blackburn was born in Lancashire, England in 1908. She emigrated to the United States twice. She recalls her youth in a Lancashire mill town. These experiences prepared her for life in New England — but not for American weather. She began work at the American Thread Company in Willimantic, CT in 1923 and worked in Rhode Island for the duration of the 1925 ATCO strike. She returned to Willimantic in 1927 and worked as a spooler at American Thread for the next 27 years. there are recollections and opinions about the Great Depression, mill work, unions, other ethnic groups, and old time Willimantic.
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Subject
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textile workers; oral history; labor history
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Creator
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thomas r. beardsley
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Contributor
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Edith Blackburn
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Date
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1990
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Format
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audio mp3 digitized from cassette
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Type
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Sound
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Rights
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The recordings are (c) Windham Textile and History Museum.
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Relation
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Oral History Collection
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Provenance
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Digitized by Dr. Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann - digitized the content, 2020
