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" of the corporation they would descend from it, dressed in various and outlandish fashions, and with their arms brimful of bandboxes containing all their worldly goods. On each of these was sewed a card, on which one could read the old-fashioned New England... "
Immigrants in industries - Page 56
by United States. Immigration Commission (1907-1910) - 1911
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Proceedings in the City of Lowell at the Semi-centennial Celebration of the ...

Lowell (Mass.) - 1876 - 174 pages
...more modern style of things, when the large, covered baggage wagon arrived in front of a 'block' on the corporation. They would descend from it, dressed in various and outlandish fashions (some of the dresses, perhaps, having served for best during two generations) with hair done up in...
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Journal of Social Science: Containing the Transactions of the ..., Issues 16-20

1882 - 1096 pages
...more modern style of things. AVhen the large covered baggage wagon arrived iu front of a " block on the corporation" they would descend from it, dressed in various and outlandish fashions (some of the dresses, perhaps, having served for best during two generations) aud with their arms brimfull...
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Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement: A General, Political, Legal ...

Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson - 1883 - 304 pages
...a more modern style of things. When the large covered baggage wagon arrived in front of a "block on the corporation " they would descend from it, dressed in various and outlandish fashions (some of the dresses, perhaps, having served for best during two generations) and with their arms brimfull...
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Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement: A General, Political, Legal ...

Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson - 1883 - 334 pages
...a more modern style of things. When the large covered baggage wagon arrived in front of a "block on the corporation " they would descend from it, dressed in various and outlandish fashions (some of the dresses, perhaps, having served for test during two generations) and with their arms brimfull...
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Loom and Spindle: Or, Life Among the Early Mill Girls. With a Sketch of "The ...

Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson - 1898 - 280 pages
...a more modern style of things. When the large covered baggage-wagon arrived in front of a block on the corporation, they would descend from it, dressed...read the old-fashioned New England name of the owner. And sorrowful enough they looked, even to the fun-loving child who has lived to tell the story ; for...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 109

1912 - 892 pages
...baggagewagon arrived in front of a block or corporation, they would descend from it, dressed in various outlandish fashions, and with their arms brimful of...bandboxes containing all their worldly goods. On each of them was sewed a card, on which one could read the old-fashioned New England name of the owner. . ....
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Aspirations and Anxieties: New England Workers and the Mechanized Factory ...

David A. Zonderman - 1992 - 368 pages
...a more modern style of things. When the large covered baggage wagon arrived in front of a "block on the corporation" they would descend from it, dressed in various and outlandish fashions (some of the dresses, perhaps, having served for best during two generations) and with their arms brimful...
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Daughters of America Or Women of the Century

Phebe Hanaford, Phebe Ann Hanaford - 2005 - 753 pages
...a more modern style of things. When the large covered baggage-wagon .urrived in front of a block on the corporation, they would descend from it, dressed in various and outlandish fashions (some of the dresses, perhaps, having served for best during two generations), with hair done up in...
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Fibre & Fabric: A Record of American Textile Industries in the ..., Volume 28

1898 - 560 pages
...curious sight these country girls presented ; when the large covered baggage wagon arrived in front of the corporation, they would descend from it, dressed...various and outlandish fashions, and with their arms full of bandboxes containing all their worldly goods. On each of these was sewed a card, on which one...
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