Manual for use in women's sewing centers

Publication

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Jacksonville History Center

Name/Title

Manual for use in women's sewing centers

Entry/Object ID

Library.1900

Tags

Library records not in public view, Library Rare books collection as of June 4 2023

Description

65 pages : 21 cm Manual for use in women's sewing centers compiled by Louise C. Clark, Director of Women's Work, Jacksonville, Florida. Form WW-5. Florida Works Progress Administration. In a brown pamphlet binder. Verified full name on ancestry.com. Includes an index. Subject heading Great Depression 1929 see Subject heading Depressions -- 1929. Selected contents: Golden rule of the sewing centers -- Titles and duties of work room personnel -- Average number of garments produced by an individual stitcher per day -- Workroom setup for ten women -- List of patterns most needed -- Estimating the amount of material -- Material specifications -- Findings (buttons, thread) -- Cost of findings (buttons, snaps, elastic, thread) -- Extra labor charges on clothing -- Maternity box or sterile pack -- Measurements for sleepers and pajamas -- Children's playsuits -- Boys' and girls average height -- Overalls and jumpers -- How to measure a boy for pants or longies -- Men's work shirts -- Dungarees -- Sweaters -- Hosiery -- J. C. Penny Company shoes -- Ladd's shoe store -- Bedding -- Nursery cot covers --Curtains for F.E.R.A. Nursery -- Towels -- Sheets -- Comforts -- Total requirement for Duval County for 6 months. Web site: livingnewdeal.org: Work programs for women were first established in 1933 through the Women’s Division of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), and later came under the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Nationally, some 7 percent of WPA workers were women engaged in sewing projects. Sewing rooms could be found in rural areas and large cities alike. Web site: https://nddaily.blogspot.com: During the Great Depression, unemployed women across the country could find work in WPA sewing rooms. These sewing rooms produced 382 million articles of clothing for men, women, and children. It was a win-win situation, with jobless women earning money and low-income Americans receiving much-needed clothes

Collection

Library

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Depressions -- 1929 -- Florida -- Jacksonville., Women -- Florida -- Jacksonville -- History., United States. Florida Works Progress Administration (Jacksonville, Florida)., Public works -- Florida -- Jacksonville., Sewing -- Study and teaching -- Florida -- Jacksonville -- History.

Publication Details

Author

Clark, Louise C. (Cameron), 1886-1985., Florida Works Progress Administration.

Publisher

Publisher not identified.

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

[Jacksonville, Fla.]

Call No.

Rare Book HB 3717 1929 .C53