Women's Work: A Century of
Maine Experience
An
unusual picture of a cook, Lew Cole, and his family, Alice, Tena,
and Sadie Cole, in a lumber camp, circa 1920, Palmer area. While the
picture might be unusual, the practice it represents was not. Lumber
camps cooks were generally male, but Gladys Morrison, the wife of
the owner and manager of a lumber operation, remembers that it was
common for wives to join their husbands in the woods, and wives
whose husbands were cooks would generally help out with the cooking.
Whether these women received separate wages for this work or if
their work was included in their husband's wages is not clear. [P
5837] [NA 1972.014]
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