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Glance at the Past - The Milliners

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WYCE Radio 88.1 FM
4/19/12 07:36pm
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The first milliner, a career practiced solely by women, opened her hat shop at the corner of Monroe and Ottawa in 1838. By 1900 over one hundred women listed milliner as their occupation in the city directory.
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