Irish American laborers
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Often defined as unskilled manual work for wages, usually requires skills and is hard demanding work. Includes: quarrymen; powdermen; assembly line worker; canal diggers; railroad track layers; factory workers.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Craven-McDade family papers
Collection
Accession: 2308
Abstract:
The Craven-McDade family had several family members working in the gunpowder and explosives industry for the E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company and later the Hercules Powder Company. These papers related to the Craven and McDade family of Henry Clay village in Delaware.
Dates:
1899-1954
