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An Extraordinary Look Into Ordinary Lives: Uncovering Dorchester’s Industrial School For Girls

Commonwealth Museum 220 Morrisey Blvd, Boston, MA, United States

History and archaeology combine to tell the story of a 19th-century “child-saving” institution and those who walked its halls. Dorchester’s Industrial School for Girls was designed to “prevent evil” in “destitute or neglected” children. The middle and upper-class managers of the school trained these young girls in the domestic arts and proper female virtue in […]