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Lowell Mill Girls

The Lowell Mill Girls

• They worked in the mills in the middle

1800s

• They ranged in age from

• They got up at 4:30 am in the morning

and worked from 5:30 to 7:30, then

they had breakfast.

At 8:05 they went back to work!

• They had lunch from 12:30 to 1:05 pm.

• Then they worked again until 7:30 pm

at night.

The Table of the Lowell Mills, 1851

• Notice that the latest the first bell rings

is 5:40 am in March. Usually the girls

have to get up from

4:30 to 5 am.

• Evening bell is 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm

depending on the time of year.

The Table of the Lowell Mills, 1864

• This was when the girls had an 11 hour

work day.

• They get a longer lunch– 45 minutes

instead of 35!

• They didn’t get a 10 hour day until

1874, and most girls were not in Lowell

then.

How do you spend your time?

• What time do you get up in the

morning?

• How long do you take to eat your

breakfast?

• How many hours to you “work” every

day?

Our time vs. their time

• Let’s see how our days compare!

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Work Cited

• Slide 3 - “Student Source 7” from the

curriculum packet called: “Lowell and

the American Industrial Revolution”–

Time Table of the Lowell Mills, 1851

• Slide 4 - The Lowell Mill Girls–

curriculum packet. Published 1999

Eastern National. Reprinted 2009

• Both packets purchased from the Gift

Shop of the Boott Mills Museum,

Lowell, Massachusetts.