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Employees Foundation garment industry Michigan Employees History 20th century Lingerie Industrie Personnel féminin Michigan Histoire 20e siècle Magnaghi, Russell M honouree. Michigan Michigan History Sous-vêtements de maintien Industrie Michigan Personnel Histoire 20e siècle Upper Peninsula (Mich.) History Women lingerie industry workers Women lingerie industry workers Michigan History 20th centuryFilter By Authors
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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's mines were exhausted and its stands of timber depleted, the Gossard Girls' income sustained both their families and the local economy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 331.4 WONCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI UP WongContents: Preface / David Haynes -- Introduction: A Festschrift for Professor Magnaghi -- Story maps / Robert Archibald -- An immense world of delight: The U.P. in prose / Ted Bays -- Witness to five centuries: The history of Ste. Anne's Parish, Mackinac Island / Steven C. Brisson -- Hungarians in Michigan's Copper Country / Bernard Cook -- "A most unpleasant circumstance" : Personality and provocation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014