Girls working in knitting mill near Scranton, Pennsylvania

Title

Girls working in knitting mill near Scranton, Pennsylvania

Date

2022

Description

1 photographic print
Photograph of girls working in a knitting mill near Scranton, Pennsylvania. In October 1902 Schoonover traveled to Pennsylvania to research the conditions under which children were living and working for the article “Children of the Coal Shadows” by Francis H. Nichols, published in McClure’s Magazine, February 1903.

Subject

Coal; Coal mining; Mills; Child labor
Art & Music
Pennsylvania
Schoonover, Frank Earle, 1877-1972

Source

NJ/DE Digital Collective

Relation

Type

image

References

http://delaware.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16397coll21/id/8434

Citation

“Girls working in knitting mill near Scranton, Pennsylvania,” Center for Knit and Crochet Digital Repository, accessed October 15, 2026, https://digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/items/show/32930.

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