Laboring for Justice: Labor Activism in Rhode Island, August-October 2017

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

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 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

Adjutant General's Report pages 4-13, 1934

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

Chief Factory Inspector annual report photographs, 1912

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

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

Gorham Manufacturing Company

Laboring for Justice Labor Activism in Rhode Island, August-October 2017

Lymansville mill, August 31, 1909 (2009-11)

Manton Mills in Providence, 1910

Minimum Wage Board photographs, 1953

Minimum Wage Board Resolution, 1937

Old White Mill: Cranston Street, Providence

Wearing Apparel and Allied Occupations poster, 1937

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