Helena Born Photographs 1895-1897

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Helena Born Photographs 1895-1897

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Helena Born (1860-1901) was a labor organizer, anarchist, and writer who helped organize unskilled workers and seamstresses in Bristol, England. These 35 photographs depict Born and friends on Martha's Vineyard from 1895-1898.

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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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Bailie, William, 1867-1957.

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Helena Born, a labor organizer, anarchist, and writer, grew up in England in a prosperous family, and turned to socialism early in life. By the time she emigrated to America in 1890 with a close friend, Miriam Daniell, she had rejected socialism for anarchism. She settled in Cambridge (Mass.), and worked as a typesetter and proofreader. She had a deep appreciation of nature, joined the Walt Whitman Fellowship, and wrote "Whitman's ideal democracy, and other writings" (1902). From the...

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