New England Factory Life – "Bell Time" (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XII) 1868

Winslow Homer's "New England Factory Life – "Bell Time"" is a wood engraving from 1868 that depicts the daily lives of mill workers in New England. The image shows a large group of people, mostly women and children, leaving a factory at the end of the workday. Homer's illustration focuses on the workers' physical exhaustion and the somber mood of the scene, offering a glimpse into the harsh realities of industrial life in 19th-century America. The engraving originally appeared in "Harper's Weekly" and is now part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection.