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The returns of the census of 1880 give the total number of women in this employment as 21,000, the proportion still remaining largest for New England. Straw-braiding was another of the early trades, and the first straw bonnet braided in the United States was made by Miss Betsey Metcalf, of Providence, R.I., in 1789.
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