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Women outside of Eastern Manufacturing, Brewer, ca. 1920

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Maine Folklife Center, Univ. of Maine

Women never made up anywhere close to a majority of the workers at Eastern but plenty of women found work with the company throughout its history.

These seventeen women were employed with Eastern during the 1920s and show that women were able to find work in the mills in Maine.

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