Primary Sources:

Nineteenth Century

Godey’s Lady’s Book, an important resource for 19^th-century rising middle-class women is now online at http://www.history.rochester.edu/godeys/. 

Look at “Sewing Girl” and read the description at http://americanhistory.si.edu/sweatshops/history/seamstress.htm to learn about early 19^th-century seamstresses. 

Another Harper’s Bazaar depiction of a 19^th-century seamstress is at http://americanhistory.si.edu/sweatshops/history/2t7.htm.

See a reproduction of a slop shop shirt at http://americanhistory.si.edu/sweatshops/history/2t10.htm. 

View “Hauling the Whole Weeks Picking,” a painting that illustrates the southern trade of slave clothing in early 19^th-century America at http://americanhistory.si.edu/sweatshops/history/2t8.htm.

See advertisements for early ready-made clothing at http://americanhistory.si.edu/sweatshops/history/2t11.htm and http://americanhistory.si.edu/sweatshops/history/g15.htm. 

Look at an illustration of a hoop skirt factory at http://americanhistory.si.edu/sweatshops/history/2t14.htm. 

Find links to 21 primary source documents about the moral reform movement, including key arguments, dual-age group appeal, and program for moral reform at http://womhist.binghamton.edu/fmrs/doclist.htm.

Look at the Constitution of the Women’s New York State Temperance Society at http://adh.csd.sc.edu/dynaweb/MEP/sa/@Generic__BookTextView/309;hf=0.

See original documents from the Women’s New York Temperance Society’s 1852 convention at http://adh.csd.sc.edu/dynaweb/MEP/sa/@Generic__BookTextView/1545;hf=0. 

Read a letter from Susan B. Anthony to the editor of Lily about the Temperance Society at http://adh.csd.sc.edu/dynaweb/MEP/sa/@Generic__BookTextView/451;hf=0.

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