Here is a 1924 film of the California Cotton Mills in the Fruitvale district of Oakland. This was the largest mill east of the Mississippi. It is similar to many in Massachucetts that also had a large Portuguese workforce. Mygg-grandfather worked in the Lowell mills as a weaver before coming back to California in 1899.
You may see some of you ancestors at work here. The spooling room was women and girls. Men worked hauling bales and and in the weaving room. Eric Edgar http://youtu.be/-mRBv6cXCZY On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 10:20 PM, luiznoia . <noblankt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Portuguese workers at the California Cotton Mills, Fruitvale 1895 > > > On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Cheri Mello <gfsche...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> She meant "spooler." >> >> -- >> For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail >> (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the >> right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my >> membership." >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Azores Genealogy" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores. >> > > -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
