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Mark Stoneman @markstoneman@zirk.us

Repost for #WHM: Winslow Homer, 'Bell-Time' (1868) https://markstoneman.com/2024/10/30/winslow-homer-belltime.html #WomensHistory #ImmigrantHistory #WorkingClassHistory #MA

Text Shot: I used to occasionally run across Winslow Homer’s wood engravings of the American Civil War, which were widely circulated in Harper’s Weekly, but this is the first work of his I’ve seen that deals with immigrant factory workers in the textile mills of Lawrence, Massachusetts. Note the mix of genders and ages, including the presence of young children. This was not work that could feed a whole family. No matter the difficult pecuniary circumstances of his subjects, however, Homer portrayed them with dignity.

Brick factory buildings in the background, on the opposite side of the building. Workers walking home, empty lunch pails and baskets in hand.

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