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Lincoln Home Tour - Hired Girl's room
The back bedroom was used by a hired girl. While the Lincolns' laundress and cook returned to their homes at night, the hired girl would sleep here. Hired girls, often immigrants, were usually about fourteen or fifteen years old. The average wage was about a dollar fifty per week, plus room and board. Hired girls' chores included making fires, emptying chamber pots, cleaning lamps, and carrying water from the well and cistern.
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