Lydia Brown, Spinster
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An article from the Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club on Lydia Brown, a missionary sent to Wailuku, Maui, to teach Hawaiian women carding, spinning, knitting and weaving cotton cloth in the 1830s. It quotes her letters, mission committee reports and appropriations, and notes the later decline of hand-weaving as imported cloth arrived. It closes with a history of cotton growing in Hawaii from the 1860s to the early 1900s.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1926
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 6
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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