- Title
- Indentures collection, 1746-1860
- Massachusetts
- Collection consists of eight indentures, most binding girls to apprenticeships ranging from two to seventeen years to learn housekeeping; some are signed by a parent, others by overseers of the poor. One indenture concerns two children of color, Lucy and Edey Randolph Valentine, 1823. Also included is one manuscript notebook kept by Charles Willey of Rochester, New York, containing rules for calculating the working speeds of shafts and other aspects of commercial cloth weaving as well as the rate of pay for a girl working on a loom, 1857. The collection is arranged in chronological order.
- 2 folders.
- English
- Indentures.
- Books and documents
- African American girls--Social conditions--19th century
Apprentices--United States
Cotton manufacture
Girls--Social conditions--19th century
Textile machinery
Women apprentices--United States
Women textile workers--New York (State)--Rochester - Collections and items have been digitized with the generous support of The Polonsky Foundation.
Materials in English.
Electronic finding aid available https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch01877/catalog - Indentures Collection, 1746-1860. B/I38. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
- Colonial North American Project at Harvard University
- Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
- 990121900520203941_RAD.SCHL:30182734
- Title
- Indentures collection, 1746-1860
- Place of Origin
- Massachusetts
- Description
- Collection consists of eight indentures, most binding girls to apprenticeships ranging from two to seventeen years to learn housekeeping; some are signed by a parent, others by overseers of the poor. One indenture concerns two children of color, Lucy and Edey Randolph Valentine, 1823. Also included is one manuscript notebook kept by Charles Willey of Rochester, New York, containing rules for calculating the working speeds of shafts and other aspects of commercial cloth weaving as well as the rate of pay for a girl working on a loom, 1857. The collection is arranged in chronological order.
- Extent
- 2 folders.
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Indentures.
- Digital Format
- Books and documents
- Subjects
- African American girls--Social conditions--19th century
Apprentices--United States
Cotton manufacture
Girls--Social conditions--19th century
Textile machinery
Women apprentices--United States
Women textile workers--New York (State)--Rochester - Notes
- Collections and items have been digitized with the generous support of The Polonsky Foundation.
Materials in English.
Electronic finding aid available https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch01877/catalog - Cite As
- Indentures Collection, 1746-1860. B/I38. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
- Series
- Colonial North American Project at Harvard University
- Repository
- Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
- Record ID
- 990121900520203941_RAD.SCHL:30182734
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