Immigrant Women and the Industrial Revolution Teacher Resource Bundle

This five-minute video brings to life the material covered in the essay Immigrant Women, Work and Society During the Second Revolution, which is the focus of the first lesson plan in the bundle. It could be shown in class or assigned to students to watch independently on YouTube.

All of the primary sources used in both lessons are provided in the bundle. This video, however, contains a number of unique images. For your convenience, a complete list of primary sources used in the video is provided at the bottom of this page.

Narrated by The Immigrant Learning Center Education Program Manager Ariana Moir and edited by Seth Bender.

This on-demand training provides an in-depth overview of the materials in the Immigrant Women and the Industrial Revolution teacher resource bundle and lesson plans and a demonstration of a political cartoon analysis.

This session was originally recorded for the 2025 Immigrant Student Success conference.

The Immigrant Learning Center offers a range of free, on-demand professional development as well as frequent live trainings for all educators.

Massachusetts teachers might also be interested in our Professional Development Courses offering up to 15 PDPs for Massachusetts-based educators.

In order of appearance:

An abbreviated catalogue of merchandise supplied exclusively to members of the Home supply association, and manufactured and furnished by the Association’s union of factories at confidential cost prices, 1889, retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcmassbookdig.abbreviatedcatal00home/?sp=7&r=-0.525,0.023,1.911,1.432,0 

Detroit Publishing Co. Solvay Process Co.’s works, Syracuse, between 1890 and 1901, retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2016801688/

Plate 118: Manufactures, in Hewes, F. W., & Gannett, H. Scribner’s statistical atlas of the United States, showing by graphic methods their present condition and their political, social and industrial development, 1883, retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/a40001834/

American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, Panorama of Machine Co. aisle, Westinghouse Co. Works, 1904, retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://lccn.loc.gov/96522104 

Rand McNally and Company, Europe, 1898, retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/resource/g5700.ct000372/  

Emigrants leaving Queenstown [Ireland] for New York, 1874, retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3b03486/  

Immigrants on an Atlantic liner, 1906, retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/97501073/

New York – Welcome to the land of freedom – An ocean steamer passing the Statue of Liberty: Scene on the steerage deck / from a sketch by a staff artist, 1887, retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/97502086/

International Stock Food factory, Minneapolis, Minn., between 1900 and 1910, retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/resource/det.4a22124/ 

Detroit Publishing Co., Inspecting catsup, between 1910 and 1930, retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2016797146/  

B.W. Kilburn Company, Going to the land of opportunity, homeless Italian earthquake refugees on their way to America, 1909, retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/resource/stereo.1s46129/  

Duval & Hunter (lithographer), St. Patrick’s Day in America, 1872?, retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/resource/pga.08987/  

American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, Girls taking time checks, Westinghouse works, 1904, retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/96522103 

[People making teddy bears in factory], 1915, retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3c08038/  

Smedley, W.T., [I should like to make my own living], 1906, retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2010718051/  

Smedley, W.T., [Sure ye fainted, Ma’am, said Irish Annie], 1898, retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2010718001/ 

Johnston, F.B., Wooden Box Industry: women in work room of box factory, ca. 1910, retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2005696173/  

[Women at work in an unidentified laundry, possibly in Boston], ca. 1905, retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004673394/  

Hine, L.W., [Addie Card], anaemic little spinner in North Pownal Cotton Mill, 1910, retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2018675329/

American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, Coil winding machines, Westinghouse works, 1904, retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/96522217 

More than 140 die as flames sweep through three stories of a factory building in Washington Place, in New-York Tribune, 26 March 1911, retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1911-03-26/ed-1/  

 142 die when shirtwaist factory burns, in The Washington Herald, 26 March 1911, retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045433/1911-03-26/ed-1/  

Strikes, ladies tailors, N.Y., Feb. 1910, picket girls on duty, 1910, retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2002709190/  

 Strike pickets, 1910, retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2014684502/ 

Portrait of Clara Lemlich, leader of the Shirtwaist Strike of 1909-1910, ca. 1910, retrieved from The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, https://www.flickr.com/photos/kheelcenter/5279886332/in/album-72157625518331865

Falk, B.J., A scene in the ghetto, Hester Street, ca. 1902, retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/resource/ds.10253/

Little folks who toil, in The Redwood Gazette, 5 September 1911, retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85025570/1911-09-05/ed-1/

Whiting View Company, “Mind the children, finish the washing, and have dinner at 12,” 1900, retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/resource/stereo.1s33876/  

Woman’s Sphere: Suffrage cartoons, 1909?, retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbcmil.scrp5015401/

Mrs. Vincent Astor writes on our duty to immigrants, in Richmond Times-Dispatch, 5 December 1915, retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045389/1915-12-05/ed-1/?sp=52&st=image and https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045389/1915-12-05/ed-1/?sp=53&st=image  

Hine, L.W, The singing class at Hull House, Chicago, 1910, retrieved from Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/067015ab707b76c39a3e459d0656de35

“Friendly visitors” ease life of immigrant mothers, in The Sun, 5 July 1914, retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030272/1914-07-05/ed-1/?sp=48&st=image 

Hine, L.W., Group in Sweatshop. Mr. Schneider, 87 Ridge Street Shop located in the second inner court, 1908, retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2018673661/ 

Yard of a Tenement, New York, 1900, retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/resource/pcrd.1a10308/ 

Detroit Publishing Co., St. Anthony’s Falls and the milling district, Minneapolis, Minn., ca. 1908, retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2016802407/ 

Hine, L.W., Interior of J.S. Farren & Co., Baltimore, Md. Many tiny workers. Babies are held on laps of workers, or stowed away in empty boxes, 1909, retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2018674330/

Margaret Hinchey, 1914, retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2014694297/  

The video and resource bundle are sponsored in part by the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Eastern Region Program, coordinated by Waynesburg University.