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Thread Mill Girls: 1916
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 12/17/2008 - 7:38pm.
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June 19, 1916. Fall River, Mass. "Kerr Thread Mill. All over 16. Having fun with camera man. Good conditions in this mill. Caps to protect hair from dust and keep hair from getting tangled in machinery. These girls worked in an operating room, not the cloth room." Photo and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size.
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Kerr's Thread
Submitted by Ellen on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 2:17pm.
Found a spool of Kerr's "Lustre Twist" Thread in my mom's old sewing cabinet. has turned from white in places to slightly sepia from age, still has tag and was purchased from Taft & Pennoyer. Found info on this site most interesting about the company. Thank you.
Kerr Thread Mill ruins
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Fri, 12/19/2008 - 2:45pm.
Ruins of Kerr Thread Mill on Flickr:
Lizzie Borden
Submitted by Seattlekid on Thu, 12/18/2008 - 4:57pm.
Just before shipping out of Boston in WW2 I went to see the Lizzie Borden home in Fall River. It was a rooming house at this time and I thought who would want to sleep in that?
Did some research a year ago and the Borden house was a bed & breakfast.
1987 Fire
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Thu, 12/18/2008 - 2:46pm.
The Kerr Thread Mill (owned by American Thread) burned down in 1987. Now it's the Advanced Technology and Manufacturing Center, U-Mass Dartmouth.
Lizzie Borden
Submitted by Erzsi on Thu, 12/18/2008 - 1:16pm.
That's who I always think of when I hear anything about Fall River, Massachusetts. Ax murders are probably not relevant to Shorpy, but anyway. These ladies must have known the rhyme.
Working conditions
Submitted by Timmy on Wed, 12/17/2008 - 11:50pm.
Even without the photographer's note about the good conditions in the mill, you can tell it was true. The smiles on these ladies' faces seem to come very easily, which wouldn't be true if their working conditions were other than good.
That's what HE said
Submitted by Mattie on Wed, 12/17/2008 - 9:41pm.
"All over 16. Having fun with camera man."
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