Visual Memories
‘When I opened the phone booth door, four strange women blocked my way. Dodging to escape a blow in the face, I felt a stinging pain above my left eye, and pain, too, in my left knee. Warm liquid streamed down over my face, blinding me, and I toppled over’ (Bread Upon the Waters, 290).
[Fig. 1] Rose Pesotta with other ILGWU leaders, soon after her attack during the Cleveland strike, July 2, 1937
'The Women of Summer' (1985) is a National Endowment for the Humanities documentary film that chronicles the history of the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers. The Summer School was an experimental education program for women working in industry that ran from 1921-1938. Produced, written and directed by Suzanne Bauman; coproduced by Rita Heller; cinematography by Ross Lowell, edited by Phyllis Chinlund, music by Holly Near and Ronnie Gilbert, Colour, 57 minutes.
Women of Summer [Part II]
[Fig.4]: Faculty and students at the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry (1930)
Photographs via Bryn Mawr College Special Collections.
[Figs, 2&3]: Pesotta in her sewing machine,