Minnie Neilson, left, equipped for housework. Photograph donated by Lela Fackrell. Office workers Maggie Heenan and Sybil Holland in Park City. USHS collections.
From Housework to Office Clerk: Utah's Working Women, 1870-1900 BY M I C H A E L VINSON
America often labored as domestic servants, more often d u e to compulsion, through lack of other opportunities, r a t h e r than choice. O n e domestic servant summed u p her options by citing h e r situation: W O R K I N G WOMEN IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY
Mr. Vinson is a graduate student in history at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. This article began as a research paper in D. Michael Quinn's class in American social history at BYU. The paper was also presented to a meeting of the Utah Women's History Association where it benefited from many helpful comments.
