| Sweatshop Photographic Collection |
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| Contact the Department of Special Collections for location. |
| "The Illustration on page 33 was taken by this Department in Dec. 1904 just before the inspector compelled 2 whole sale change of conditions and made the Proprietor comply with the law. The room shown opened on a side hall about 4 x 6 feet, with no window, in which hall, shown in the illustration, six girls were working crowded around a table in an almost inconceivable manner. In the room proper, the whole of which can not be shown, sixteen men and women were working,, the pressers being in the rear part of the room. The proprieter's family, consisting of wife and two children, were playing around and are shown standing in the middle of the room. Of course, it is impossible to show the dirt, and the fact that the proprietor and others were smoking cigarettes added to the foul-smelling, vitiated atmosphere. There were two windows in front and one in the back, all tightly closed, and in addition to the fire in the stove, the pressers were using gas to heat their irons in the same room." (p 35)
Interior shot of workspace in which several men, women, and children sit and stand among piles of cloth scraps strewn all over the floors. Large windows in background and doorway to another room in which a few women, sitting, can be seen. |
