“Domestic staff with work utensils,” Charles Van Schaick, Black River Falls, 1890 According to historian Genevieve McBride, 81,000 Wisconsin women—ten percent of the state’s female population—worked outside the home in 1890. Most were immigrants or the daughters of immigrants who “worked out,” serving as maids, cooks and laundresses for wealthier households. via: Wisconsin Historical Images WHi-1919, Wisconsin Historical Society; Genevieve McBride, On Wisconsin Women: Working For their Rights from Settlement to Suffrage (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993), p. 149
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“Domestic staff with work utensils,” Charles Van Schaick, Black River Falls, 1890

According to historian Genevieve McBride, 81,000 Wisconsin women—ten percent of the state’s female population—worked outside the home in 1890. Most were immigrants or the daughters of immigrants who “worked out,” serving as maids, cooks and laundresses for wealthier households.

via: Wisconsin Historical Images WHi-1919, Wisconsin Historical Society; Genevieve McBride, On Wisconsin Women: Working For their Rights from Settlement to Suffrage (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993), p. 149

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