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	One of the main stitching-rooms at the Royal Worcester Corset, co., Worcester, Massachusetts Title One of the main stitching-rooms at the Royal Worcester Corset, co., Worcester, Massachusetts Full Size Image http://dlib.cwmars.org/cdm4/images/full_size/Worcester/20.jpg Subject Royal Worcester Corset Company--Employees; Corset industry--Massachusetts--Worcester; Foundation garment industry--Massachusetts--Worcester; Women employees--Pictorial works Description Female employees at work in one of the main stitching rooms at the Royal Worcester Corset Co., Worcester, Massachusetts in 1902. The photograph shows nearly 700 women and girls at work at the nearly 500 electrically-powered sewing machines. Royal Worcester Corset Co. was started in 1861 by David Hale Fanning. At its height it employed nearly 2000 people. The factory closed in 1950. Publisher C/WMARS http://www.cwmars.org/ Date 1902-10 Type Image Format image/jpg Identifier WMBT-1902-10-141 Source Image from page 141 of the Worcester Magazine, October, 1902 (Vol. IV No. 4) in the article "The Making of Corsets". Published by the Worcester Board of Trade. Language en-US Relation In the collections of the Worcester Public Library, Worcester, Mass. http://www.worcpublib.org/
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