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Women household employees

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Housemaids ; Maids, House ; Women domestics ; Women servants ; Women domestics ; Women servants

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

George Bosworth Churchill (AC 1889) Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MA.00006
Abstract Correspondence, Lectures, Class Materials, Manuscripts, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and photographs authored by or featuring Churchill. The bulk of the collection is made up of professional documents: lectures, undergraduate papers, class materials and manuscripts written by Churchill. A number of speeches and articles relating to his substantial political career are also included. The collection contains some correspondence between Churchill and his wife and between Churchill and...
Dates: 1883-1925

Lists of cooks and "second girls", 1884-1921

 File — Box 15, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents

Two lists, one of cooks, the other of "second girls" with full names and descriptions, such as: "Helen Fox, an American -- young, pretty, cooked well from recipes. Left to go into a mill. Not neat! Left room and kitchen in a dirty state."

First two pages of volume are minutes from a Concord social club.

Dates: 1884-1921

Q-T: Miscellaneous incoming correspondence, circa 1890-1908

 File — Box 18, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents [S--?], Birdie, re joining the Naval Academy (1903 June). [?], Sarah, possibly a former maid or nurse in the Bowles family, writing from Enfield, Conn., to thank Sam for a gift and reminisce; describes her daily life (1890 April; no year, October). Stock, Mabel E., thanking Sam for her copy of the Springfield H.S. "Alphean," of which Sam was editor for at least this volume...
Dates: circa 1890-1908