Late Victorian Mill Girls, Nelson

iBase ID

303783

Reference identifier

ENE-N01-Y6-2-1

Title

Late Victorian Mill Girls, Nelson

Place

Nelson

General notes

Note on photograph card: The photograph shows some mill girls, who slipped out of the weaving shed at lunchtime to have their photograph taken at Barcroft and Crabtree's Studio on Cross Street, Nelson. They bought their trademark with them.

These are some of the same girls from the photographs 'Late Victorian Mill Girls dressed in their Sunday Best, Nelson' on Red Rose Collections - (Reference Identifier: ENE-N01-Y6-2-2, ENE-N01-Y6-2-3).

(Statement written by John Bentley - He is the author of the book called 'This was Nelson: Photographs, 1860-1930'. The book was published in 1973. This picture is on page 35.)

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Medium

Photographic print

Colour

Monochrome

Year of image

c.1899

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Subjects

Place Names > Nelson

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