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We kept our towns going : the Gossard girls of Michigan's Upper Peninsula

text We kept our towns going : the Gossard girls of Michigan's Upper Peninsula

Summary
"Phyllis Michael Wong tells the stories of the "Gossard Girls," women who sewed corsets and bras at factories in Ispheming and Gwinn in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, from the early twentieth century to the 1970s. Particularly as the Upper Peninsula'... Read more
Contents
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 The Beginnings of the H. W. Gossard Company -- Cecilia Kangas, Gossard Girl -- ch. 2 The Factory -- Rose Collide, Gossard Girl -- Claude Tripp, Gossard Manager -- ch. 3 A Decade of Expansion -- Madeleine DelB... Read more
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Description
xvi, 190 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Publisher
Michigan State University Press 2022

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East Bay Branch Library 331.4 WON in Adult Non-fiction Reshelving
Interlochen Public LIbrary MI UP Wong in Michigan Collection Available

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