Business and Labor

Petition requesting a law regulating the hours for a days labor to ten, 1851

Petition to limit the hours of labor and to regulate the employment of children in factories, 1853

Petition to appoint a Commissioner to enforce labor laws, 1863

Petition to enact a law for the half-time schooling of all children employed in the factories of this state, 1876

Petition of the Mule Spinners of Rhode Island for a law limiting the hours of labor to nine hours per day, 1900

Petition by the Biltmore Hotel service employees that they be guaranteed a minimum wage of 50 cents per hour with the inclusion of gratuities

Petition by the Crown Hotel service employees that they be guaranteed a minimum wage of 50 cents per hour with the inclusion of gratuities, 1946

Act to provide for the Instruction of Children in Manufacturing Establishments, 1840

Act to provide for the Instruction of Children in Manufacturing Establishments, 1840

Adjutant General's Report pages 4-13, 1934

An Act in relation to Truant Children and of the Attendance of Children in the Public Schools, January 1863

An Act to limit the hours of Labor and to regulate the employment of children in Factories, 1852

An Act to Provide for the Better Security of Life and Limb in Cases of Fire in Factories and Other Buildings, January 1890

An Act to Regulate the Employment and Provide for the Safety of Women and Children in Mercantile Industries and Manufacturing Establishments, January 1894

Brown and Sharpe

Chief Factory Inspector annual report photographs, 1906, 1912

Correspondence related to Minimum Wage Order for Public Housekeeping Occupation, June 13, 1946

Death Registrations of those killed during labor strikes, 1934

Department of Business Regulation (includes Rhode Island Share and Deposit Indemnity Corporation/RISDIC) rules and regulations, 1953-2001

Director of Labor correspondence re: investigation of wages paid to women and children in wearing apparel industry, April 22, 1937

Director of Labor correspondence re: Minimum Wage Order for the Wearing Apparel Industries, September 16, 1937

Fitzsimmons Boyle Collection

Mills and Manufacturing

Minimum Wage Board for the Garment Making Industry: Resolution A, 1937

Minimum Wage Board photographs, 1953

Minority Business Enterprise Commission rules and regulations, 1986-1995

Private Acts (Local Acts or Charters), 1868-1916

Report to the Governor by the Rhode Island Workmen's Compensation Law Commission, 1947

Resolution upon Proposed Amendment to US Constitution to Limit Labor of Persons Under 18, 1925

Restaurant and Hotel Restaurant Occupations poster, 1944

Rhode Island Businesses, c. 1890-1966

Rhode Island: An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial Sites by Gary Kulik and Julia C. Bonham, 1978

Walsh Kaiser Company Inc. Shipbuilding Division photograph, c. 1942-1945

Women's Bureau survey to determine fair minimum wage for the apparel industry, undated