Brown Bag Lunch: A Day in the Life of a Watch Factory Worker with Bill Briska and Rebecca Miller
June 20 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDT
Elgin historian Bill Briska and Museum Educator Rebecca Miller will take you back in time to an earlier Elgin where everyone walked to work, had lunch at noon, and enjoyed the same payday. Register
What was it like to work at the Elgin National Watch Company in Elgin? Factory life was very regimented and manufacturing watches was an exacting job.
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