We kept our towns going : the Gossard girls of Michigan's Upper Peninsula

Author

Phyllis Michael Wong

Call Numbers

• 331.4887 W87294 (CEN)
• H 331.4887 W87294 (CEN)

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Publication Information

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2022]

Physical Description

xvi, 190 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Summary

"Phyllis Michael Wong tells the stories of the "Gossard Girls," women who sewed corsets and bras at factories in Ispheming and Gwinn in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, from the early twentieth century to the 1970s. Particularly as the Upper Peninsula's mines were exhausted and its stands of timber depleted, the Gossard Girls' income sustained both their families and the local economy"--

Contents

• Machine generated contents note: The Beginnings of the H. W. Gossard Company
• Cecilia Kangas, Gossard Girl
• The Factory
• Rose Collide, Gossard Girl
• Claude Tripp, Gossard Manager
• A Decade of Expansion
• Madeleine DelBello, Gossard Girl
• Laila Poutanen, Gossard Girl
• Lucy Tousignant, Gossard Girl
• Considering Unionization
• Elaine Peterson, Gossard Girl
• Helmi Talbacka, Gossard Girl
• Denise Anderson, Gossard Girl
• Transforming Fashions
• Marjorie Ketola, Gossard Girl
• Rita Corradina, Gossard Girl
• Changes Force Gwinn Closure
• Paulette Nardi, Gossard Girl
• Anita Lehtinen, Gossard Girl
• G. Mae Kari, Gossard Girl
• Signs of the Time
• Joyce and Dennis Evans, Gossard Couple
• Nancy Finnila, Gossard Girl
• Remigia Davey, Gossard Girl
• Remembering the Gossard
• Gerald Harju, Son of Lydia Harju
• Judy Charbonneau, Daughter of Anita Lehtinen
• Joan Luoma, Daughter of Clifford and Edith Perry
• Barbara Gauthier, Daughter of Viola Medlyn
• Peter Johnson, Son of Harold and Gertie Johnson
• Michael Morissette, Son of Henry and Alice Morissette
• Chris Wiik, Gossard Girl
• Reemergence
• Ruth Craine, Gossard Girl and Union Organizer
• Geraldine Gordon Defant, ILGWU Union Organizer
• Dorothy Windsand, Gossard Girl.