Women at Work

ID: 1999 ~ Source: "Through South Bend Industries," December 1, 1916, South Bend Today, p. 7. ~ Creator: South Bend Today ~ Date: 1 December, 1916
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Women at Work

Wilson was one of the few factories with jobs open to women at the time. Here, dozens of women sat at machines in 1916 sewing Wilson shirts.

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By Jacqueline Lopez
Wilson Branches Out to South BendThe Wilson Brothers menswear business was founded in Cincinnati, Ohio by the four Wilson brothers, John, E. Crane, Hugh, and Milton, in 1864. They moved their headquarters to Chicago four years later, where they…