Wage-Earning Woman - San Diego, CA
Posted by: Metro2
N 32° 44.345 W 117° 12.779
11S E 480045 N 3622382
Located outside the Women's Museum at Liberty Station.
Waymark Code: WMT082
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 09/01/2016
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This silhouette sculpture depicts a young woman in a long dress and wearing an apron. The silhouette holds a real lantern and is surrounded by 3-dimensional objects- a washbasin, pots and pans, a bottle and a kettle.
The sign below reads:
"Wage-Earning Women
Women had more opportunities to earn money in Old
Town than in the Eastern U.S. There were so few women
that they earned cash from single men and other families
by doing traditional women's work: laundry, baking,
cooking and sewing and tending to children and livestock.
Women's wages were sometimes the only support their
families had.
Women were also land and ranch owners, but most wage-earning
women worked in someone else's home. Indigenous women with an
exceptional talent for cooking beef, beans, rice, stews, wild game
and pastries were valued members of the household.
Women were physically strong. They hauled and chopped wood,
lifted 30+ pounds of wet laundry or full pots, carried children while
working and walked long distances to fetch supplies. They ground
meal and flour by hand and stirred huge pots with ladles sometimes
as large as themselves.
Women complained that mosquitoes bit while they worked and
there was never enough clean water."
City: San Diego
Location Name: Women's Museum
Artist: unknown
Date: unknown
Media: painted wood with real objects
Relevant Web Site: Not listed
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