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We kept our towns going : the Gossard girls of Michigan's Upper Peninsula /
"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 i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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East Lansing :
Michigan State University Press,
[2021]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (223 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781609176860 1609176863 9781628964462 1628964464 1628954523 9781628954524 |