DGHM 110: Introduction to Digital Humanities

The World's Events Article_1907

Small magazine article on white paper with brown squiggles around three of the edges. Written in cursive in pen above 'The World's Events July 1907' The article has a photograph of Meta standing in a studio space with a tall easel working on a bust of a man. The article is as follows: "Women at Work If all the men of the world, married and single, should labor every hour of the day they could not perfor the world's work. It is necessary and natural, therefore that women should enter the realm of men's labor. The report recently issued by the Census Bureau shows that there are 456,000 women farmers, and farm laborers in the country more by 118,000 than there are women dressmakers. There are 185 women engaged in blacksmithing, and 508 are classified as machinists. Eight are employed as boilermakers, forty-five as locomotive engineers and firement, thirty-one as brakemen and ten as baggagemen. Women have invaded all but nine of the 303 occupations once monopolized by men. There are women architects, contractors, carpenters, plasters, painters, plumbers, paperhangers and curiously enough the only occupations in whihc women are losing ground as compared with men, are sewing, tailoring, and dressmaking. One of the talented young bread-winners of this country is Meta Vaux Warrick, a young colored sculptor, who has been commissioned by the Government to design for the Jamestown Exposition fifteen groups of statuary representing the progress of her race from the landing of Virginia Colony at Jamestwon in 1619 to the present day."

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"Women at Work," The World's Events. A Monthly Review of The World's News 7, no ? July 1907

1907