New Lanark, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
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Portrait of Robert Owen, c 1914
Item — Box Box A: Series Coll-1167/B
Identifier: Coll-1167/B/22/3
Scope and Contents
Print from an engraving showing Robert Owen wearing a hat and reading 'New Moral Worker.' Also his signature. Robert Owen 1771-1858 was a Welsh textile manufacturer, philanthropic social reformer, and one of the founders of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement. Owen is best known for his efforts to improve the working conditions of his factory workers and his promotion of experimental socialistic communities. He had connections with the developing cotton industry. He introduced a...
Dates:
c 1914