apron
date: label: date made
content: 1900 - 1920
label: Date made
content: 1900-1920
notes: label: Description
content: Apron; weaver's, blue and white striped cotton ticking. Half apron. Apron has one large pocket, 13.875" (35cm) deep; inside is a 1.25" (3.2cm) wide strip sewn with channels to hold reed hooks. The reverse has two pockets 6" (15cm) deep along the bottom edge of the apron. A strip, 16.75" (45cm) and 19" (48.2cm) is sewn at its center to each top corner of the apron; they appear to have been used to tie on the apron.
label: Description
content: Girls built America. Girls’ work gave other women leisure time, they made industries more profitable, their cheap labor sparked a consumer revolution, and their activism reshaped labor laws. Through their labor and activism, they made workplaces safer for everyone.
label: Description
content: Not all girls had a childhood because they had to work.
label: Description
content: Young girls often worked as spinners or bobbin girls. Spinners ran machines that twisted fiber into yarn. Bobbin girls replaced full bobbins of yarn with empty ones. Often, girls wore aprons such as this one to protect their clothes.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States
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content: Work and Industry: Production and Manufacturing
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0233.20.01
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0233.20.01
label: accession number
content: 2017.0233
objectType: label: Object Name
content: apron
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall, mounted: 16 3/4 in x 13 in x 7 1/2 in; 42.545 cm x 33.02 cm x 19.05 cm