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The bobbin girl / Emily Arnold McCully.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection PZ7.M478415 Bo 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCully, Emily Arnold.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Textile workers--Juvenile fiction.
- Textile workers.
- Strikes and lockouts--Textile industry--Juvenile fiction.
- Strikes and lockouts.
- Child labor--Juvenile fiction.
- Child labor.
- Textile factories--Massachusetts--Juvenile fiction.
- Textile factories.
- Manners and customs.
- Strikes and lockouts--Textile industry.
- Lowell (Mass.)--19th century--Juvenile fiction.
- Lowell (Mass.).
- Massachusetts--Social life and customs--Juvenile fiction.
- Massachusetts.
- Textile workers--Fiction.
- Strikes and lockouts--Textile industry--Fiction.
- Child labor--Fiction.
- Lowell (Mass.)--Fiction.
- Massachusetts--Lowell.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Dust jackets (Binding) -- 1996.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, [©1996]
- Summary:
- A ten-year-old bobbin girl working in a textile mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1830s, must make a difficult decision--will she participate in the first workers' strike in Lowell?
- Notes:
- "Typography by Atha Tehon"--t.p. verso.
- "First Edition."
- "The artwork was rendered in watercolor on watercolor paper with pastel highlights."
- "Special thanks to the staff ot the Museum of American Textile History for their help in checking the facts in this book, and to Gail Mohanty, curator of the Slater Mill Historic Site, for sharing her expertise on bobbins and spinning frames."
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Atha Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: McCully, Emily Arnold. Bobbin girl.
- ISBN:
- 0803718276
- 9780803718272
- 0803718284
- 9780803718289
- OCLC:
- 32133641
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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