1. The Garment Industry
1880-1924

2. The Levine family’s sweatshop at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum

3. A Necktie Workshop in a Division Street Tenement, 1889

4. Making knee-pants at a Ludlow Street sweat shop

5. A Twelve-year old boy pulling threads in a sweatshop, 1889

6. A man and woman from the University Settlement are shown entering a tenement
sweatshop.

7. Young Jewish Factory Workers

8. New York Garment Factory Circa 1910-1930

9. Many American girls wanted to look like the “Gibson Girl”, who wore a
shirtwaist and wore her hair knotted on top of her head. This led to the increase of shirtwaist factories.

10. Young men and women work in a garment factory as foremen look on, ca. 1900.

11. Young women pose for a picture at a garment factory, ca. 1900.

12. Sewing machine operators work at long tables, ca. 1900.

13. Workers in the dressmaking room, ca. 1900

14. Girls in shirtwaist blouses sit at a long table, ca. 1900.